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THE AMATEUR’S KITCHEN GARDEN. 
barrow. It held twice as much as a common wooden wheel- 
barrow, and required only half as much strength to propel it, 
so cleverly was it pivoted on the axle and adjusted to the 
hands. But his man would never use it ; the old wooden 
barrow was always in use, while the economizer of strength 
and time became ingloriously rusty, and was at last found 
lying heels upwards in the rubbish yard, battered, full of holes, 
and in all respects in the same state of dilapidation as the 
kettle that is taken from a cinder heap to be tied to a dog’s tail. 
A few specially useful implements will be figured further 
on ; but this appears the proper place for a suggestion on the 
artistic arrangement of garden tools, where they happen to be 
sufficiently numerous to make a picture. 
