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Time- and trouble-saving devices innumerable will be sug- 
gested by inventive boys and girls, who will now have their 
special innings. Some of these devices, to be sure, seem 
rather trivial, especially before they have been tested ; but all 
may well be given a trial. One would hardly realize, for in- 
stance, how cleverly a little clothespin will lend its aid ; as 
an article for holding strings in place it certainly takes the 
lead, pushing as it does so firmly and neatly into the earth. 
When the garden plan is finished, there will doubtless be 
several copies of it made. One will be kept "for best " and will 
be posted on some convenient wall for reference. Lettered 
plainly, it will reveal at a glance many interesting things ; it 
will tell what proportion of the land is to be given over to 
general kitchen-garden purposes, what to the experimental 
beds, what to a little nursery, to small fruits, to ornamental 
shrubbery, flower plots, and borders. In the case of a small 
inclosure that is expected to produce a variety of vegetables 
and flowers, some of which can get along with less sun than 
others, one is recoriimended to mark out quite definitely the 
areas of sun and shade that can be counted upon. These, of 
course, will change to correspond with the sun’s path as the 
weeks go by. 
The place of honor, however, in any well-regulated garden 
will be reserved for the cold frame, since within it there will 
be reared hundreds of little plantlings with which to stock all 
the rest of the garden. Spare no pains, therefore, in choosing 
for it a spot that combines the most complete shelter with 
the most splendid sun exposure. For nowadays, even in very 
modest home and school gardens, the cold frame is very prop- 
erly playing a leading part, and every day its value is being 
more and more appreciated. 
Desirable in every way as it would appear to work out the 
whole plan (this being in accordance with the advice offered 
