. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . 102 MANUAL OF GARDENING spaces. It is also difficult to enter hard ground with such abroad face. Various pointed blades have been introduced from. 96. A stack of gardening weapons, comprising some of Tarryersweeding spuds and thimbles. time to time, and most of them have merit. Some personsprefer two points to the hoe, as shown in Marvins blades, in THE HANDLING OF THE LAND 103 Fig. 95. These interesting shapes represent the suggestions ofgardeners who will n
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . 102 MANUAL OF GARDENING spaces. It is also difficult to enter hard ground with such abroad face. Various pointed blades have been introduced from. 96. A stack of gardening weapons, comprising some of Tarryersweeding spuds and thimbles. time to time, and most of them have merit. Some personsprefer two points to the hoe, as shown in Marvins blades, in THE HANDLING OF THE LAND 103 Fig. 95. These interesting shapes represent the suggestions ofgardeners who will not be bound by what the market affords,but who have blades cut and fitted for their own satisfaction. Persons who followed the entertaining writings of one whocalled himself Mr. A. B. Tarryer, in American Garden/ afew years back, will recall the great variety of implements thathe advised for the purpose of extirpating his hereditary foes,the weeds. A variety of these blades and tools is shown inFigs. 96 and 97. I shall letMr. Tarryer tell his story atsome length in order to leadmy reader painlessly into a newfield of gardening pleasures. contends that thewheel-hoe is much too clumsyan affair to allow of the pursuitof an individual weed. Whilethe operator is busy a
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