Saving in the Garden 
Saving is the beginning of all things and very important in 
a garden, be the acreage large or small. It is more easily done 
where there is plenty of room, but the results are so good that 
everyone who has a garden should plan for a small space to hold 
the things to be saved. Usually one hires a man to take away 
from the house the refuse of all kinds that seems impossible to 
dispose of otherwise. In reality you are robbing the garden of 
its rights. 
Wood-ashes we know to be an important fertilizer. Sow it Wood-ashes 
broadcast on your grass; spread it about the roots of each Peach 
and Pear tree to prevent borers ; use it in the flower garden, most 
plants are benefitted by having a little dug into the soil about 
them before rain. It is especially useful in checking root-lice 
on Asters, mixing a quarter of a trowelful with the earth in the 
hole before putting in the plant, will prove most efficacious. 
Coal-ashes may be used as a mild fertilizer and are the ounce Coal-ashes 
of prevention in keeping out worms from Delphinium. They 
have a distinct value mixed with clay soil, providing drainage 
when needed, and by lightening the soil allow moisture to 
percolate. They are invaluable for making paths, mending roads, 
filling low places and can be used to advantage in home-made 
concrete work, as making cold-frames, lessening the amount of 
stone and sand used and therefore the expense. Dahlias seem 
to like a little coal-ashes added to whatever fertilizer you are 
using for them. 
Kitchen refuse is sometimes hard to dispose of. I have two Kitchen 
large pits dug in an out-of-the-way spot in my garden where the Refuse 
soil is poor, hard-pan — in fact so hard that the pits had to be 
dug with a pick and need no lining of stone; they are edged 
about the top with boards fitted with a heavy cover. The refuse 
is put in each day with a liberal admixture of lime and poor soil 
until that which had been dug out of the pits, had been used up. 
The mass is trampled down at intervals with a long pole. When 
one pit is filled it is covered tightly and we begin on the other. 
During the winter the contents of the first pit is hauled out and 
spread on one of the pasture lots. This is thoroughly wired so 
that animals cannot get in. In the spring all the bones and 
substances that do not rot are raked off and we feel that the grass 
has had a great help. If crushed, these bones are splendid for 
the Grape vines. 
In the garden, in the fall, all leaves are carefully gathered Lewes from 
and used for covering for the celery-pits, artichokes and for THE q. 4rden 
packing the cold-frames. My frames stand up rather high above 
the ground and for protection have a covering of boards around 
them with a four-inch space which we pack with leaves, letting 
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