. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. 44—How to Make the Garden Pay. But the tool of all tools, the modern weed-slayer, the great' labor-saver, the greatest horticultural blessing of the age—that is the modern wheel-hoe. This above all others frees the gar- dener from undesirable work, cuts down the labor account one- half, and makes tillage, both in the home and market garden, light and pleasant. It is quite a number of years ago when it was first introduced, but fortunately for the progressive gardener for money, the slow moving majority has not yet recognized its value. The a
. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. 44—How to Make the Garden Pay. But the tool of all tools, the modern weed-slayer, the great' labor-saver, the greatest horticultural blessing of the age—that is the modern wheel-hoe. This above all others frees the gar- dener from undesirable work, cuts down the labor account one- half, and makes tillage, both in the home and market garden, light and pleasant. It is quite a number of years ago when it was first introduced, but fortunately for the progressive gardener for money, the slow moving majority has not yet recognized its value. The advantages connected with the possession of one of these tools cannot be over-stated, nor emphasized too strongly,. Planet Jr. Garden Drill. nor told too frequently. Without the wheel-hoe's help the gar- dener of to-day cannot hope to hold out against his progressive competitors. It is the tool that more than anything else has cheapened the cost of production in garden stuff. The most perfect implement of this kind, at present, is the " Planet Jr. Double Wheel-Hoe," illustrated in next Fig., a cultivator, rake and plow combined, in fact an all purpose tool of tillage, and good to whatever use you put it. It can be made to hoe both sides of one row, or between rows, in level culture and in throw- ing the soil either to or from the row. This tool banishes the old hand hoe from the garden to a certain extent, and reduces Garden Implements—45 the unpleasant task of weeding to a minimum. Let no gardener suppose that he can safely get along without a wheel-hoe. In the home garden this implement makes a pleasure of what. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Greiner, Tuisco, 1846-. Philadelphia : Wm. Henry Maule
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