GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 



water, as soon as pnt in the sunlight for a few 

 days. Better still, when through blooming, it will 

 live through the year if put in soil, and store up 

 enough energy to repeat the performance when 

 taken out next season. Costing a dollar each when 

 first introduced here, it can now be bought as low 

 as ten cents a bulb. 



Japanese fern balls, black and unpromising as 

 they look when purchased, respond to plenty of 

 light, heat and water by sending out the daintiest 

 kind of feathery ferns in a few weeks, and will 

 last for several years. They cost only thirty-five 

 cents, too. Quaint, square pottery jars, suspended 

 in pairs by a cord over a little wheel, like buckets 

 on a well rope, make unusual hanging baskets and 

 can be filled with your favorite vines and flowers. 



Garden tools are always acceptable as the old 

 ones wear out or get lost, and you can choose from 

 the three-prong pot claw at a nickel up to the 

 fully equipped basket at several dollars. Hand- 

 woven cutting baskets, mounted on sharp sticks for 

 sticking in the ground when you are cutting your 

 posies, cost two dollars and a half, but will last for 

 years. Small hand-painted, long-spouted watering 

 cans, for window sprinkling, cost less than a dollar 

 and look pretty when not in use. And for the per- 

 son with only a window garden, the self-watering, 



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