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How Your Garden Grows This Year 
{Continued from page 78) 
wheel hoe cannot be used, choose 
the smallest and lightest hoe you can 
find, and keep it sharp. The heavy, 
old - fashioned, clumsy draw hoe 
makes needless work for the gar¬ 
dener who insists on using it, unless 
he has big weeds to chop out, or very 
hard ground or a lot of hilling to do. 
In cultivating to save soil moisture 
by maintaining a dust mulch, either 
the regular flat hoes on the wheel 
hoe, or a gang of vertical teeth which 
lightly tear through the soil instead 
of under it may be used. Sometimes 
where there is' a considerable crust 
the ordinary hoes merely cut under 
it, leaving it intact. Whenever a 
crust forms always break it up thor¬ 
oughly, even if you have to go over 
the garden two or three times in 
succession. In a light, clean soil, 
free from trash and stones, the 
“rake” attachments can be used to 
good advantage. The dust mulch 
should be maintained even after the 
plants are grown enough to make it 
difficult to get through the rows with 
the regular wheel hoe. For this work 
use a scuffle or slide hoe. The mod¬ 
ern form works much the same way 
as a wheel hoe, being adjustable to 
a regular depth. They do better 
work, and do it much easier than the 
old-fashioned plain push hoe. In the 
flower garden an ordinary scuffle hoe, 
or a prong hoe may be used; but it 
is just as important to keep up the 
soil mulch here as in the vegetable 
garden. 
For deep cultivation or stirring of 
the soil, the regular cultivator teeth 
on the wheel hoe can be used dur¬ 
ing the early stages of growth. For 
later work I like the little one-piece 
gang of three cultivator teeth so con¬ 
structed that the inner one cuts the 
deepest and the widest and the one 
nearer the row the narrowest and 
the shallowest. For hilling and deep 
cultivating in wide rows, such as 
potatoes, beans, and celery, the regu¬ 
lar plow attachment for the wheel 
hoe does very quick work. 
If you are just beginning your gar¬ 
den work, let me advise you by all 
means not to skimp on the tools you 
get. Be generous with yourself in 
this regard, and buy the best of what¬ 
ever you do buy. Then take care of 
it—that is the right policy to pur¬ 
sue if you want to have the upkeep 
expenses for your garden held down 
to the minimum. To get good re¬ 
sults cultivation must be thorough 
and frequent. With good tools, it is 
easy; with poor ones, it is difficult 
and discouraging. And discourage¬ 
ment is bad for garden success. 
Spring Flowers for Winter Days 
B lossoms are always welcome 
about the house, and never rnore 
so than during the bleak winter tirne. 
The present writer has tried, with 
great success, a plan by means of 
which any quantity of the most lovely 
spring blooms may be secured with 
a very small amount of trouble. The 
scheme may be followed at any time 
after the turn of the year and, if a 
few precautions are taken, it is nearly 
always satisfactory. Branches of any 
kind of spring flowering tree or shrub 
are gathered. Some kinds are nat¬ 
urally more attractive than others but 
amongst the best may be mentioned 
ornamental cherry, wild plum, al¬ 
mond, ribes and Japanese quince. 
These are only a few of the suitable 
subjects, and the list might be very 
much extended. 
When picking the branches it is a 
good plan to see that these are of 
a nicely balanced growth. Try to 
secure some boughs of really artistic 
design. Another matter of impor¬ 
tance is to make sure that there are a 
good number of flower buds on the 
stem as distinguished from those 
which will produce mere leaves. It is 
not difficult to decide between the 
two for, in almost all cases, the buds 
which will produce blossoms are 
thicker and somewhat more blunt at 
the tip than those which will be re¬ 
sponsible for foliage alone. 
Displaying the Branches 
It will now be needful to gather 
together a number of bowls and jars 
to accommodate the branches. These 
should be filled with water and it is 
a good plan to drop a lump of char¬ 
coal into each. This is not essential 
providing the water is changed very 
frequently. At the lower portion of 
the stem of each branch gathered cut 
away the rind for 3" or 4”. This 
will aid the bough in absorbing water 
more freely than otherwise. 
The boughs are now arranged in 
the jars or bowls and these are finally 
conveyed to a sunny window. The 
rapidity of the stages of development 
will depend very largely upon the 
warmth of the apartment. When the 
temperature is fairly high the buds 
begin to swell very soon; first of all 
the leaves peep out and finally the 
blossoms appear on the scene. In 
quite a short time it is possible in 
this way to have an immense quan¬ 
tity of the most lovely spring blos¬ 
soms without any expense and with 
extremely little trouble. 
Forcing and Retarding 
In order to provide a succession of 
bloom it is a simple matter to start 
the boughs as indicated at intervals. 
Should it be desired at any time to 
retard development this will be found 
to be an easy matter. The only 
thing to do is to place the boughs 
(in the jars, of course,) in a dark, 
cool place; the position must be frost 
free. Here the branches can safely 
remain in a state of suspended ani¬ 
mation for a week, or even longer, 
at the end of which time they can be 
brought out into the light again. 
Branches from any of the common 
garden trees, which do not flower at¬ 
tractively, can be treated in this way 
for the sake of the delicate green 
foliage which they will produce. 
The pretty leaves will come in very 
usefully for arranging with the sprays 
of spring blossom and the combina¬ 
tion will be a gladsome sight on a 
dull winter’s day. Flower and foliage 
brought out in this manner will be 
found to have a lasting quality which 
is wanting in growing stuff developed 
on more ordinary lines. 
S. Leonard Bastin. 
