XIII 

 GARDEN ACCESSORIES 



AS the pen to the writer, as the brush to the 

 ■L *- painter, so the trowel to the gardener! This 

 implement must be right — must be, to its user, 

 perfect. The trowel, for my own hand, is an 

 English one bought long ago in London and 

 whose like I have never seen for sale in this coun- 

 try. It formed a part of the furnishing of the 

 Vickery Garden Basket shown in the illustration, 

 and is a small, slender tool. It may be that every 

 gardener is ready to declare that he or she has the 

 perfect trowel. Be this as it is, mine has stood 

 me in good stead for nearly fifteen years, bright 

 all that time with use. Its dimensions are a bit 

 unusual. The length of the trowel is over all 

 thirteen inches, of the blade six and three-quar- 

 ters. This blade is unusually narrow, only two 

 inches from edge to edge of curving blade. Handle 

 and blade are set at a slight angle to each other 

 and excellent leverage thus secured. 



My trowel dwells resplendent in a pigskin 



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