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wards, as foot scrapers. Old forks can have their 

 prongs shortened and turned down at right angles, 

 or nearly so, to the helve. They are then useful 

 as drag hoes for loosening soil among young 

 crops. 



It is a good plan, in a garden where extra 

 labour is employed, and when neat and tidy 

 habits cannot always be expected from the labour- 

 ing men, to have receptacles for different kinds of 

 refuse. There should be one for crocks, another 

 for glass, a third for paper, and one for bits of wood. 

 It should be seen each night that tools are carefully 

 put away clean. 



No pains should be spared to master thoroughly 

 the mechanism of mowing machines. The lady- 

 gardener must also know how to stoke a green- 

 house furnace, and repair broken glass in frames. 

 If these matters have been learned in student 

 days there will be no difficulty for her in directing 

 men. Should she be unable herself to put a piece 

 of glass into a frame, she must not be angry with 

 her workman if he fixes it insecurely. As thorough 

 master of her trade, she will make herself 

 respected. 



Care, too, should be taken from the fijst to 

 look ahead, as regards what has to be purchased, 

 such as pots, soil, manure, peat, nails, raffia. It 

 is provoking in finishing a job to be delayed 



