Garden Implements 



There should be a hoe in every garden. 

 There is a hoe called the Warren, — probably 

 so named because of its manufacturer, — which 

 has a V-shaped blade, with the handle inserted 

 in the centre. This gives a wide blade to use 

 as desired, with a point at the other extremity. 

 With this point it is possible to pick weeds 

 away from vegetable seedlings almost as surely 

 and safely as can be done with the fingers, 

 and far more easily. This cannot be done 

 with the ordinary wide-bladed hoe which has 

 to be used with great caution in working among 

 the weeds in the garden, and even then one is 

 likely to cut off many of the seedlings with the 

 weeds. With the V-shaped hoe, all can be 

 done that is possible with the ordinary hoe, 

 and it has a much wider range of usefulness 

 than that tool. So useful is this style that I 

 wonder why it is not universally employed. 



There should also be an iron-toothed rake 

 in every garden. Don't get the very cheap 

 kind. Get one that has good material in it. 

 See that its teeth are regular in length, and 

 that that part facing the user has a slanting 

 rather than a fiat surface. A wooden-toothed 

 rake is little better than nothing. One needs 



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