The Home Garden 



owner of a small garden will find admirably 

 adapted to his needs. It sows cabbage, carrot, 

 celery, lettuce, radish, and all such seeds with 

 perfect regtilarity, and does the work ten times 

 as rapidly as it can be done by hand, and far 

 more evenly. The quantity to be sown can be 

 regulated, also the depth. It will sow a packet 

 of seed, or a larger quantity, as desired. It is 

 simple, easily understood, and cannot get out 

 of order. While not absolutely necessary, it is 

 a most desirable thing for any garden, and I 

 would urge the use of it. 



Every gardener ought to own a spade. The 

 kind to get is one having a rather narrow blade, 

 which should be thin, with a good cutting edge. 

 A heavy, clumsy spade is out of place in the 

 garden, and a ''cheap'* spade, — cheap in qual- 

 ity as well as in manufacture, — is dear at any 

 price. Keep the edge of the spade well filed 

 and you will always be able to do good work 

 easily, but let it get dull and you will find it a 

 tiresome tool with which to work. 



A long handled shovel will come in play 

 almost every day. The shovel with a broad, 

 square blade, turned up somewhat at the sides, 

 is a very useful implement in the garden. 



54 



