SOME IMPLEMENTS AND DEVICES. 



■ Several devices for the facilitation of garden labor 

 have grown out of my practice during the last two 

 or three years. They are mostly very simple, yet 

 I find them useful, particularly for work which is 

 partially experimental. 



A Handy Wagon (Fig. i). — This is a combination 

 fruit and truck wagon. The body projects over the 



Fig. 



A Handy Wagon for Garden Use. 



Fig. 2. A Handy Cart. 



wheels, giving a very large surface for the handling of 

 crates, boxes, barrels, etc, I use a 3-ft. wheel, with a 

 2%-\n. tire. The body is 4 ft. 8 in. by 12 ft. It is used 

 either behind a pole or thills. 



A Handy Cart (Fig. 2). — This is a platform hand- 

 cart, so stable that it can be used in the field as a table, 

 upon which the 

 sorting and 

 weighing of ex- 

 perimental 

 crops is done. 'I 

 We find it in- 

 dispensable_ 

 We use a 3-ft. 

 wheel and a 

 wide tire. The 

 body is provided with a border an inch high all around. 



Pollinating Kit (Figs. 3 and 4). — So many little ar- 

 ticles are needed in the pollinating of plants that I have 

 found a kit for holding them indispensable. My first 

 outfit was a half-bushel apple basket, which was soon 



displaced b y 

 an oblong peck 

 market basket. 

 Both these had 

 the advantage 

 of the greatest 

 democracy o f 

 contents, for 

 bags, strings, 

 pencils, notes, and other trifles, made most promiscuous 

 acquaintanceships. Leaves, sticks and other litter drifted 



Fig. 3. Pollinating Kit. 



into the medley, and to complete the confusion someone 

 was sure to want the basket the moment I set it down, 

 and all my stock in trade would next be found in the ash- 

 pit or under a bench. And when I loaded up again I 

 was sure to 

 omit s o m e - 

 thing, for there 

 were no com- 

 partments to 

 suggest a com- 

 plete outfit. 

 This shortage 

 in my accounts 

 was usually de- 

 tected too late, 

 both for the ex- 

 periment and 

 for my p a - 

 tience. I next 

 tried my pock- 

 ets, but the ai 

 tide was al- 

 w a y s in the 

 wrong pocket, 

 and there was 



Fi( 



Pollinating Kit. 



too much of everything else in every pocket, anyhow ! 



So a tin box, with a place for each trifle, finally grew 

 out of my experience. This box is g by 12 inches and 3 

 inches deep. A chest handle is placed in such position 

 on top that the box balances nicely in the hand. The 

 bottom of the box, which is two inches deep, contains in 

 the upper left-hand corner a large compartment for bags. 

 Adjoining this is one of similar 

 size for labels. The artist, for 

 some reason of his own, has 

 made this compartment into 

 two. Below the bag compart- 

 ment is a long box for pencils, 

 camel 's-hair brushes — which I 

 carry wholly out of respect to 

 instructions in books, for they 

 are of little use — a jack-knife, 

 small scissors, and two or three 

 smaller but very useful trinkets. 

 Two or three little compart- 

 ments join this, in one of which 

 is a lens — I find a photograph- 

 er's finder the best lens for this 

 purpose — and in another two or 

 three small vials and boxes, 

 in which I sometimes collect 

 pollen. Along the right-hand 

 side is a compartment for strings, which are cut six 

 inches long, and in the upper corner is a small bottle of 



Fig. 5. Pollinating Bag. 



