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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
Garden Tools. 
BY AN EXPERT. 
Watering Pots. 
Now that the weather is a little more 
settled, gardens are drying up quickly, 
and horticulturists are on the look-out for 
watering apparatus. The common water¬ 
ing pot is all very well for ordinary work, 
but for special plants and more advanced 
gardening, it is important to have the 
cans suitable for the particular work they 
are intended to be used for; so green¬ 
house watering cans are made specially 
adapted for dipping, delivering water in 
a tine spray, and by the addition of a 
flat rose turned upward; on the ferrule, 
the underside of leaves ^...i be washed and 
sprayed. What are known as high-level 
watering pots are also popular with gar¬ 
deners and nurserymen. In these the 
body is rather shallow, and terminates 
in an open oval neck; a long spout, with 
a mainstay and a flat rose, heljis to force 
the water upwards. Then tor Straw¬ 
berries quite a different can is needed. It 
has a long spout with an open sloped end, 
so that the fruit is not injured. Such 
cans, too, are useful for watering plants 
on greenhouse shelves. There are other 
kinds of cans, too, which we may refer 
to another week. 
Hose Pipe. 
There are several makes of hose pipe 
on the market, but possibly the seamless 
hose is the most satisfactory to use. 
Where rough usage is expected, the 
armoured hose pipe is, of course, best. 
In any case, a hose reel is desirable, as 
it helps to preserve the pipe and prevent 
it from kinking. The hose reels gener¬ 
ally used run on two wheels, and are 
easily pushed about, but another form 
like a metal cylinder, on which hose can 
be wrapped and when filled rolled from 
place to place, is inexpensive, and has- 
been much in favour during the last few 
seasons. 
Spraying Apparatus. 
Spraying apparatus is just now very sea¬ 
sonable, and the different appliances on 
the market render spraying an easy opera¬ 
tion. Some of the knapsack pumps are 
casilv manipulated, and being made of 
metal and the working parts accessible, 
cannot get out of order. Knapsack 
sprayers are popular, and are especially 
suitable for spraying blight and green¬ 
fly amongst Potatos, etc. A new garden 
pail engine which has been brought out 
recently is very handy for small, gardens, 
and is also very useful for washing carri¬ 
ages or windows. 
Garden Tools. 
Among the tools just now used are, of 
course, rakes, spuds, spades, trowels, 
forks, hoes, and the like. Many of these 
tools are put up in sets, beautifully 
finished with varnished handles and bright 
and blue blades. Several makers are 
specialising on these goods, and the sets 
they are offering are of special value. 
Indeed, in this convenient form it is easy 
for- amateurs to acquire quite a useful 
set of seasonable tools at a moderate cost. 
Cast steel edging knives for cutting the 
turf and shaping the beds are useful, and 
in conjunction with long-handled border- 
shears, help the gardener to trim grass 
plots, and make the flower beds, cut out 
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on the lawn, orderly and artistic. Old- 
fashioned gardening is not much in vogue, 
and art, which enters so much into every¬ 
day life, is brought into play in the gar¬ 
den also. So trainers are.usefl in order, 
that plants may be made to grow in de¬ 
sired forms ; indeed more order than for¬ 
merly is observed in the arrangement of 
flowers and standards. It is well to label 
these and to buy a selection of zinc 
labels on which the names of plants may 
be written with indelible ink. All the 
different articles mentioned may be ob¬ 
tained from ironmongers and florists, or 
from those firms who specialise on horti¬ 
cultural supplies, some of which are ad¬ 
vertised in these columns. 
-- 
“KILOGRUB” 
Since giving a notice of the above in¬ 
secticide a few weeks ago, we have been 
making a trial of it, and intend to still 
further make use of it. In sowing seme 
seeds about three weeks ago we used a 
sprinkling of “Kilogrub” in soil that we 
knew was unclean in several respects. 
There were worms in it, and more than 
one fungoid enemy, including the damp¬ 
ing-off fungus and mildew. What effect 
it has had upon the spores of the fungus we 
cannot say, beyond the fact that no 
trouble has arisen from the use of the 
soil, although the seeds were stood in a 
situation where damp would be en¬ 
couraged, yet no trace of this appeared. 
Twenty-four hours after sowing the seeds 
in the soil we inspected them again, and 
found worms lying on the top of the soil, 
and not merely dead, but shrivelled up 
and dry, owing to the fact that the sun 
shone upon the dead animals.' If the 
worms had been alive sunshine would not 
have killed them, because they roll them¬ 
selves up and so keep alive for some time 
at least. The fact is that the worms must 
have come on the top to escape the “Kilo¬ 
grub” and were unable to get any further. 
If it acts so quickly upon big animals- 
of this class it must have an equally 
powerful effect upon various others, par¬ 
ticularly the soft bodied ones, but as all 
of them have got to respire or breathe, we 
think ihe insecticide would be equally 
June 6, 1908. 
deadly. When soil lays about where 
leaves of trees fall upon it, it harbours 1 
vermin of a variety of kinds, and we in¬ 
tend still further to make use of it in all 
soils of a doubtful nature or where the 
seeds to be sown or plants grown are oil 
a tender character and liable to attack: 
of various soil enemies. 
Of course, in an early stage of a new 
insecticide like this the full effect of i 
cannot be determined at once, but as i 
is evidently a powerful insecticide, withou 
doing any harm to the roots of plant: 
growing in such soil, it is doubtless goins 
to prove a very useful help to those hav 
ing little leisure to look after enemies, anc 
whose gardens are particularly liable tc 
. be infested. Others, as well as ourselves 
have discovered that small gardens, witl 
their sheltering walls and fences, an 
more than usually liable to depredation 
by insects and attack by fungoid enemies 
The insecticide is obtainable from Messrs 
John Peak and Co., Bridgewater Chemi 
cal Works, Wigan, Lancs. 
-- 
Whitsuntide Holidays. 
To the thousands who, with fiaggm; 
energies and jaded nerves are seeking , 
change of air this Whitsuntide, th 
A.B.C. Programme of Excursions jus 
issued by the Great Central Railway Com 
pany will be particularly interesting 
Within its covers are conveniently tabu 
laled an inexhaustible choice of reson 
suitable for all tastes and requirement; 
Over 300 seaside and inland holiday re¬ 
sorts in the Midlands and the North, in 
eluding Liverpool, Isle of Man, and Wes 
Coast, Cleethorpes, Scarboro’, and Eas 
Coast, Vale of Aylesbury, Chiltern Hill; 
and Stratford-on-Avon, can be reached i 
ouick time by convenient trains, the visi 
extending over a week, .and with few ex 
ceptions costing only a sovereign or less 
Tourist and week-end tickets are obtain 
able to a large number of places at loi 
fares, and the choice of destinatio: 
stretches from the Midland Counties t 
the far North of Scotland. 
Other commendable features of th 
Programme are the frequent day and hab 
day facilities to the beaut)' spots c 
Middlesex, Herts, and Beechy Buck; 
bicycle'and pedestrian tour tickets a 
specially low fares to many places of pic 
turesque and historical interest, extensio: 
of the week-end ticket arrangement, etc. 
Express corridor car trains leave Mar) 
lebone on Friday, Saturday, Sunday an 
Monday, June 5, 6/7 and 8, and full pai 
ticulars of times of departure,.fares, an 
other necessary information are set fort 
in this comprehensive Programme, whic 
may be obtained free at Marylebone Sta 
lion, Company’s Suburban Stations, Tow 
Offices and Agencies, or from Publicit 
Department, 216, Marylebone Road, N-V 
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The Vinolia Company have just pm 
ducecl a new perfume, the Royal Rose 
which has caught most successfully th 
sweetness of the queen of flowers. 
A YOUNG gardener's assistant, acchsc 
at Highgate, was ordered by the magi: 
trate, as part of his punishment, to ret 
plant some shrubs in a garden from whic; 
he had removed them. 
