HOUSE AND GARDEN ! 
510 
June, 1913 
C. W. Short, Jr., Architect. 
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Landscape Architects 
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Plans, Estimates and Layouts pertaining 
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Entrance Lamps 
^AUT-OF-DOORS illumination for 
modern country places is a matter 
of necessity. 
Wrought-iron lanterns, electroliers and 
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To complete a harmonious plan of 
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Address: Ornamental Dept. 
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Established 1828 
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to be done. The best time to destroy 
weeds is just after they are sprouted and 
before they are an inch high. In going 
over the soil, every square inch of soil 
should be broken up, as in this way you 
will destroy hundreds of the little seed¬ 
lings which are not yet above ground. Of 
the various types of hand weeders I per¬ 
sonally prefer that known as Lang’s, which 
has a small strap to slip over the middle 
huger, thus holding the weeder secure in 
the palm of the hand while the fingers are 
being used to pull weeds and so forth. 
Nowhere is the old adage, “A stitch in 
time saves nine,” more applicable than in 
this business of hand weeding, and unless 
you have already clone so much of it that 
you know how to proceed at every step, 
you may save yourself quite a good deal 
of trouble by giving careful consideration 
to the suggestions which have been of¬ 
fered above. Every year many gardens 
and parts of gardens are abandoned which 
might easily have been saved if the work 
which should have been done in them at 
some stage early in the game had not been 
postponed ‘‘for a day or two.” 
The other two implements which are of 
most service in the garden are the ordinary 
rake and hoe. The latter is used more 
than it should be and the first not so much. 
The “man with the hoe” is an anachro¬ 
nism in present-day gardening if the gar¬ 
dener will only take the trouble to use 
up-to-date methods. The rake to select 
for garden purposes is the sort with an 
iron or steel head attached by a “bow” ex¬ 
tending from either end of the head to the 
handle rather than directly to it at the cen¬ 
ter. It should be used not only in prepar¬ 
ing ground for planting or marking out 
but also between the rows of newly set 
plants as soon as they are put out or to 
rake over the soil between the rows where 
they are far enough apart after working 
with the wheel-hoe; this not only puts the 
soil in its finest possible condition for 
keeping the soil mulch and thus conserv¬ 
ing the moisture which will be needed 
later on, but also drags up and exposes to 
the drving out influences of wind and sun 
thousands of small weeds which otherwise 
even if they have been rooted up, might 
be sufficiently buried to take root again, 
a thing which they will do very readily, 
especially in rainy weather. The ordinary, 
old-fashioned hoe was formerly used ex¬ 
tensively in the care of almost every crop 
grown ; one of its chief purposes was to 
drag the soil up to the plants in the row, 
“lulling,” as it was called, a slow, laborious 
and under proper conditions a useless task. 
About the only job for which one should 
need a hoe in modern gardening is to de¬ 
stroy small weeds and to loosen up the 
soil close up to and between plants in a 
row where it cannot be reached with a 
wheel-hoe, and when the plants have 
grown large enough so that finger weeding 
is not necessary. For this purpose you 
will find the small, light hoe. called in most 
sections an “onion hoe,” very much easier 
to use and just as effective as the old- 
fashioned large kind with a blade eight 
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