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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Some Practical Baskets for 

 Garden Use 



HPHE cheapest all-round basket is that com- 

 J- mon splint basket costing twenty cents, 

 and it is good enough for carrying all the 

 sundries wanted about a garden. A little 

 better in make, and therefore costing more — 

 a dollar — but of the same general type, is the 

 well-known egg basket. When one does 

 much actual work in the garden this sort of a 

 basket is a necessity, for it will not suddenly 



330. English gathering basKet, of wicKer. The 

 handiest basket made for receiving flowers as cut. 

 No crushing, no burying. Size 14x24 in. Costs $3.50 



331. For the woman who gathers her own salad 

 plants. A Canadian birch barK "corceau" is very 

 light. Costs 25 cents. Diameter 12 in., depth 454 in. 



332. A peddler's basKet is the cheapest good 

 gathering basket. The double handle Keeps it steady 

 on the arm. leaving both hands free to use. Costs 

 35 cents. Sire 14x22 inches 



go out of commission. For the woman in 

 the garden who likes something of a more 

 fancy type, the Canadian corceau of birch 

 bark is recommended as light and durable. 

 It is ideal for gathering fresh vegetables and 

 costs only a quarter. The Carolina Moun- 

 tain basket has its use as a fancy basket, really 

 strong and serviceable, for carrying the odds 

 and ends of garden tools, shears, knives, 

 hand trowel, string, labels, etc., its narrow 

 top adapting it specially to that purpose. 

 It costs ninety cents. 



The best cheap basket for general pur- 

 poses is a wicker market basket, costing 

 about thirty-five cents. It can be used for 

 both gathering and carrying. Being wider 

 at the top than at the bottom the flowers 

 may be stood upright in order to avoid 

 crushing the blossoms. They can be car- 

 ried to the house and arranged in vases 

 directly from the basket, which is not 

 possible if the tops of the flowers are 

 packed together. The heads need more 

 room than the stalks. 



By far the best basket for handling cut 

 flowers is the strongly made and unique 

 English basket, costing $3.50. (See Fig. 

 330.) Flowers can be laid in it in rows, each 

 color and variety by itself, and so that tire- 

 some sorting after you come in from picking 

 on a hot morning can be obviated. Un- 

 fortunately this basket can be had at but one 

 or two places in this country. The next most 

 convenient basket for the flower gatherer is 

 the pedler's basket which is bought for 

 thirty-five cents. It is shallow, admits of 

 laying flowers in rows, but the raised edges 

 greatly limit the capacity as compared with 

 the regular gathering basket. One distinct 

 feature is the double handle by which 

 steadiness is secured when the basket is 

 slung over one arm and the two hands 

 left free to gather. It is a handy article 

 for the vegetable gardener too, as the con- 

 tents are kept well in sight, and the edge 

 keeps them from rolling off when moving 

 from place to place. 



M. L. B. 



The Morning Glory as a Weed 



ON page 15 of the March Garden Maga- 

 zine a writer advises the planting of 

 morning glory on the garden fence! Now I 

 kept a man employed a great part of four 

 successive summers in my half-acre vegetable 

 garden, pulling up morning glory vines by 

 the roots. 



The vines were in the garden when it 

 came into our possession and were every- 

 where. They wrapped up the corn and all 

 the other plants that stuck out of the ground 

 and effectually smothered them. The man 

 went up one row and down the next and when 

 he had gotten over the ground once it was 

 high time for him to begin again at his first 

 row. It is only now and then that one comes 

 up now, and we are on the watch for these. 

 I shall not intentionally grow morning 

 glories on my garden fence, but maybe my 

 garden was in some way particularly adapted 

 to their taste. 



Pennsylvania. E. Shirley Borden. 



333. Best for general purposes. A wicKer market 

 basket costing 35 cents. Very durable. Cut flowers 

 placed upright in this basket have more head room 

 than if the sides were upright. Strongly built in order 

 to carry heavy weights. Size 11x15 inches 



334. For the various odds and ends which are 

 necessary about the tidy home garden: string, labels, 

 pencil, pad, etc. A basket wider at the bottom is 

 handy. A Carolina mountain basket, 8 x 8/^ inches, 

 costing 90 cents 



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335. A splint basket is good enough for light 

 work about the garden, but soon breaks to pieces. 

 Size 13x22. Costs 20 cents 



336. The well-Known egg basKet is serviceable 

 for all-round garden worK — e.g.. picKing off seed pods, 

 weeding, carrying pots and smaller tools. Costs $1. 

 Size 9J4 x 14 inches 



