GARDEK >JOTE 



t should be just a matter of course that the garden be our 

 first care every day. Work in the cool of the morning. 

 Allow nothing to interfere with your garden work. 



Use the hose less, and the hoe more. 



A low broad camp-stool is such a garden comfort. 



Always rub pruners or shears with a piece of oiled cheesecloth 

 just before hanging up. 



Protect your hands by always wearing your garden gloves when 

 working. 



Hairpins are a garden help to hold down a spray, a vine end, or a 

 creeping bit of green. 



Make a special effort to learn the correct method of pruning. There 

 is a great fascination in it. 



When cultivating don't start the work too strenuously. If you do, 

 you will tire and lose interest. 



You will experience much justifiable pride when you realize that 

 you can name every rose in your garden. 



Have at least two flat garden baskets for your own use; one for 

 faded flowers, one for freshly cut flowers. 



Grow a few roses in pots to replace possible failures. They may be 

 transplanted without the slightest check. 



Little caps made of paraffine paper put on your choicest blooms 

 when spraying will protect them from possible disfigurement. 



Keep a garden book — just a simple blank book, for a quickly made 

 note that you think you can remember — but frequently forget. 



A trowel fitted with a long handle will enable you to work without 

 stooping or kneeling. A broom or rake handle will answer. 



Keep your pruners sharp — a large pruner for large things and a 

 small pruner for small things, and a pair of very large shears will be 

 most helpful for shearing. 



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