Chapter V 



IMPLEMENTS AND THEIR USES 



IT may seem to the reader that it is all very well 

 to make a garden with a pencil, but that the 

 work of transferring it to the soil must be 

 quite another problem and one entailing so much 

 work that he will leave it to the professional market 

 gardener. He possibly pictures to himself some 

 bent-kneed and stoop-shouldered man with the hoe, 

 and decides that after all there is too much work 

 in the garden game. What a revelation would be 

 in store for him if he could witness one day's opera- 

 tions in a modern market garden! Very likely 

 indeed not a hoe would be seen during the entire 

 visit. Modern implements, within less than a gen- 

 eration, have revolutionized gardening. 



This is true of the small garden as certainly as of 

 the large one : in fact, in proportion I am not sure 

 but that it is more so — because of the second won- 

 derful thing about modern garden tools, that is, the 

 low prices at which they can be bought, considering 

 the enormous percentage of labor saved in accom- 



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