A SIMPLE FLOWER GARDEN. 



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fertilizers. All of them are more or less useful, but for a 

 simple country garden like this, the barn will furnish all 

 we need. One-half a cord of manure is the least that will 

 be needed, and this having been spread over the surface of 

 the borders, and one-half barrel of lime having been scat- 

 tered among it, the whole must be dug under the surface 

 with a digging-fork. The expense will be, for manure 

 four dollars ; lime, one dollar ; labor, one dollar : total, six 

 dollars. 



THE EARTH CLOSETS 



recently introduced will save a portion of this expense. 

 By their use, a dry, clean, inodorous, and very valuable 

 manure is produced, at a low cost. When it is known that 

 every creature that walks the earth returns to it each year 

 sufficient material to reproduce from the ground enough 

 food to sustain its life for that year, it will be plain that 

 every family, by the use of earth closets, or similar appa- 

 ratus, could have enough fertilizing material to maintain a 

 garden twenty times as large as the one under considera- 

 tion. The cost of manure cannot, therefore, be a bar to 

 having a flower or kitchen garden. 



TOOLS 



are essential in every garden, however small. The follow- 

 ing are all that will be needed : — 



Tin watering-pot, $1 00 - 



A four-pronged digging-fork, . , . , 2 00 

 Shuffle hoe, 1 00 



