GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
water, as soon as put in the sunlight for a few 
days. Better still, when through blooming, it will 
live through the year if put in soil, and store up 
enough energy to repeat the performance when 
taken out next season. Costing a dollar each when 
first introduced here, it can now be bought as low 
as ten cents a bulb. 
Japanese fern balls, black and unpromising as 
they look when purchased, respond to plenty of 
light, heat and water by sending out the daintiest 
kind of feathery ferns in a few weeks, and will 
last for several years. They cost only thirty-five 
cents, too. Quaint, square pottery jars, suspended 
in pairs by a cord over a little wheel, like buckets 
on a well rope, make unusual hanging baskets and 
ean be filled with your favorite vines and flowers. 
Garden tools are always acceptable as the old 
ones wear out or get lost, and you can choose from 
the three-prong pot claw at a nickel up to the 
fully equipped basket at several dollars. Hand- 
woven cutting baskets, mounted on sharp sticks for 
sticking in the ground when you are cutting your 
posies, cost two dollars and a half, but will last for 
years. Small hand-painted, long-spouted watering 
cans, for window sprinkling, cost less than a dollar 
and look pretty when not in use. And for the per- 
son with only a window garden, the self-watering, 
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