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The stop nozzle, tliough occasionally con- 

 venient, is often dangerous. Far better to 

 throw the end of the hose down on the 

 lawn letting the water run from it, then run 

 back to the stand pipe or faucet, cutting off 

 the supply at that point. 



If you have more than twenty-five feet of 

 hose some arrangement for winding it is a 

 great convenience. The hose reel is usually 

 made with travel wheels; the union being 

 made with the stand pipe the reel can be 

 wheeled out into the garden thus extending 

 the hose in the direction in which it is to be 

 used. If the hose is wound on to the reel 

 after use it will be practically drained of 

 water, and the gathering up is done without 

 any dragging over the surface and cutting the 

 edges of the lawn, or scratching the hose itself 

 by being drawn over gravel walks. 



In lawn making from sods the turfing 

 iron is indispensable. This consists essen- 

 tially of a long necked thin flat spade fitted 

 at such an angle that it works flat on the 

 ground, or rather in the ground, as it is used 

 under the sod both for cutting and relaying. 

 Its use in laying or repairing with sods lies 

 in the ease with which, by its means, any ir- 



