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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1913 



A New Love Story 



By Mrs. Humphry Ward 



Author of "Lady Rose's Daughter," "The Marriage of 

 William Ashe," etc. 



The Mating of Lydia 



LYDIA is a young girl of decided talent as an artist and of strong convictions as to the 

 newer freedom and independence of her sex. Of no fortune or family distinction, she yet 

 finds at her feet young Lord Tatham, heir to a great estate. Claude Faversham, an admirer 

 of Lydia, and an Oxford chum of Tatham's, through a strange chance becomes involved in the 

 death of Edmund Melrose, an eccentric art collector of great wealth, to whose estate he suc- 

 ceeds. Both Tatham and Faversham love Lydia and it is the building of these three charac- 

 ters which Mrs. Ward presents with such splendid power. 



The story is full of incident and movement and one is loath to put it down, so full of genuine 

 dramatic interest are its pages. 



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"Mrs. Ward is always stimulating. A simple and sensational London Daily Chronicle. 



story well constructed and well maintained." "The Story of Lydia, the artist, and her lover is grave and 



— London Morning Post. dramatic. It is even theatrical." — London Daily N ews 



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An Affair of State 



By J. C. SNAITH 



Author of "Broke of Covenden," "The Principal Girl," etc. 



THE British Government with its back to the wall and organized 

 labor at its throat; the monarch, on a very unstable seat, endeavor- 

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Tools for Gardening 



ONE of our most useful garden tools is what we 

 caU a " spud." It is made of a thin steel plate, 

 probably 25 inches wide and 6 inches long, bolted 

 into the end of an old rake handle. The whole 

 thing is about five and a half feet long. With this 

 we can cut off the blossoms in a field of straw- 

 berries in one half the time usually required and do 

 it easier. The blossoms are more apt to be taken 

 off the new plants at the proper time if there is an 

 easy way to do the job. This same spud is also 

 mighty useful in removing dandelions, plantain, 

 and other weeds from the lawn. 



Another tool which has no name, we made for 

 weeding onions. The stick or handle is three feet 

 long and as light and strong as possible. In the 

 end is set a piece of hoop iron f of an inch wide. It 

 may be any length, though ours is three inches long. 

 This iron is bent in the shape of a hook, the end 

 being only bent or turned back toward the handle 

 about j of an inch. 



We can take three or four rows of onions with 

 this tool after the wheel hoe is run through and get 

 practically all the weeds and do a thorough job with- 

 out bending our backs. The only one objection 

 to this is that hired help will not take enough care 

 with it and usually cut the sides of some of the 

 onions and spoil them. 



We also have a seeder and the attachments for 

 all kinds of cultivating. The seeder and wheel 

 hoes were bought primarily for the working of 

 onions. Gradually we found that the wheel hoe 

 attachments could be used profitably in the short 

 rows of the home garden, where we now use the 

 tool almost exclusively. Except for the wheel 

 hoes we have not found much real use for the other 

 attachments with which the tool is equipped. 

 However, the wheel hoes alone make it many times 

 worth having. 



Ohio. R. E. Rogers. 



Measures for the Garden 



TO MEASURE the distance from row to row, 

 or from plant to plant, it may be that you 

 sometimes use your garden tools instead of bringing 

 out a yardstick. If your only object is evenness, 

 you can do this without knowing the precise num- 

 ber of inches in your tool; but it is the habit of 

 manufacturers to make their tools exactly to some 

 ordinary unit of measure; and if you will learn 

 what these units are you can then use them for 

 measuring distances expressed in inches and feet. 



My own tools are ordinary ones and they give me 

 the following exact measurements: My spade is 

 three feet, of which the handle is two feet and the 

 blade one. My trowel is one foot, the blade being 

 just one half. The head of my rake is one foot, 

 divided into halves by the attachment of the handle, 

 and the teeth are one and one eleventh inches apart. 

 The handle of my rake is a six-foot stick, but it is 

 set into the head in such a way that the whole rake 

 is a little more, and the visible part of the wood a 

 little less, than six feet. It is clear that with these 

 tools I can readily measure any desired number of 

 feet and half-feet, and that by a little calculation 

 I could make my rake-teeth serve the practical 

 purposes of a yard stick. Measure your own tools, 

 for they are probably not all equal to mine (my 

 neighbor's rake-head is thirteen inches), and you 

 will find that the knowledge of their lengths will 

 often save a trip to the house for the yardstick. 



That is, for some purposes. There remain some 

 things for which the yardstick is decidedly handier. 

 When you are thinning a row, lay the yardstick 

 down along the row; don't move it till you have 

 thinned the whole three feet. You can work as 

 rapidly and easily in this way as by guessing at the 

 distance, and much more reliably. If imperfect 

 germination compels you to leave your thinning 

 unpleasantly uneven, you can carry out the re- 

 duction of "six inches apart" to "three in every 

 eighteen inches" or "six in three feet" much better 

 by having the measure lying stationary on the 

 ground. 



I do the same in planting those seeds which have 

 trouble in breaking through the top of the ground, 

 such as carrots and parsnips. Their natural way 

 is for a number of seeds to sort of cooperate in 

 lifting the surface of the ground. I let them have 

 their way; if I want them to stand five inches apart 



