GARDENING FOR LADIES. 
CHAPTER L 
STIRRING THE SOIL. 
Digging. — Every one knows that the first 
operation of the gardener* whether a new 
garden is to be made* or merely an old one 
re-planted* is to dig the ground; though but 
comparatively few persons are aware why this 
is so essentially necessary to be done. When 
a piece of rough ground is to be taken into 
cultivation* and a garden made where there 
was none before* the use of digging is obvious 
enough; as the ground requires to be le¬ 
velled* and divided by walks* and thrown up 
into beds* to give it the shape and appear¬ 
ance of a garden* which could not be done 
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