April, 1913 
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odd corners and leave the fingers free to 
assist in the work. 
For the woman who gardens and for 
anyone whose activities are concerned 
chiefly with a flower garden, a garden 
basket equipped with tools is a help. There 
are compartments for various articles and 
as one works one’s way about the garden 
each tool is handy and the basket can carry 
flowers that have been clipped without 
mussing them up at all. One good type of 
basket has two forms of trowel, a good 
serviceable knife, a good pair of pruning 
shears, flower clippers, a hammer, a spool 
of wire and a wire clipper. The wire is 
especially valuable in training vines and 
supporting bent down shrubs and plants; 
and the hammer included in this basket 
comes in handily in nailing trellises and 
vine strings and doing a thousand and one 
odd jobs. The pruning-shears are a vital 
necessity to every garden, and where there 
are trees on the place a pruner on a shaft 
to reach branches on a fruit tree comes in 
as a valuable auxiliary. 
As plants mature the question of spray¬ 
ing is of paramount importance, and it is 
necessary to have an efficient sprayer. 
That type of compressed air sprayer with 
a galvanized can will do with one of the 
improved nozzles. It saves much time and 
trouble and is thoroughly efficient. A few 
strokes of the plunger fills the can with 
compressed air that makes spraying pos¬ 
sible for quite a few minutes. 
There is something to say about the 
lawn and its special requirements. The 
old joke of the suburban itinerant lawn- 
mower does not offer such a bad sug¬ 
gestion. To those whose places are ad¬ 
jacent it is a rather good economy to get 
a common lawn-mower of the better type. 
A horse roller with a set of detachable 
blades or else a motor mower can do all 
the work on a number of places along one 
street, or in one district; and if the ex¬ 
pense of such a machine is shared, there 
will be really quite a saving in time and 
effort where there are extensive lawns. 
The horse or automobile motor is essential 
when there is a great expanse of lawn to 
be kept smooth and close cropped. If your 
place is large enough it will be an economy 
for you to get such an one yourself. At 
any rate, even on the small place, a hand 
mower of a good ball bearing type with a 
receiver to catch the clippings should be 
included. As was suggested with the lawn- 
mower the same idea might be carried 
out with the roller. The roller is quite es¬ 
sential to the good appearance of the lawn, 
and nowadays the sorts come which may 
be filled with water or with sand so that 
the roller may be moved easily and when 
filled be as heavy as desired. If you do 
not have the horse type of lawn mower 
which includes a roller, the roller possibly 
will be found necessary. Where there are 
tennis courts, bowling greens or grounds 
for games, such a roller is necessary to the 
equipment. 
Just for the sake of suggestion, let us 
take a small place as typical and outline 
what equipment would be necessary to 
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