. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . here are no valuable plantsnear, is to sprinkle the nest and runs with a mixture of six parts waterto one part kerosene. Forceful syringing with warm water will cleanpot plants of ants; and stirring the soil around their nests repeatedlywill also tend to clear them out. As a soil fumigant Vaporite is anexcellent remedy. It is safe and easy to use, being already of carbon is likewise sure
. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . here are no valuable plantsnear, is to sprinkle the nest and runs with a mixture of six parts waterto one part kerosene. Forceful syringing with warm water will cleanpot plants of ants; and stirring the soil around their nests repeatedlywill also tend to clear them out. As a soil fumigant Vaporite is anexcellent remedy. It is safe and easy to use, being already of carbon is likewise sure. 368 GARDEN GUIDE A Dandy Flagstaff for the Lawn One who has a flagstaff writes: We got a barrel andput in a heavy 2-inch iron pipe, keeping this in the center,around which we filled concrete, ramming it well. It isnecessary to place a small block at the bottom and tocover the concrete with some small boardsat the top in order to hold the iron pipe steadywhile the concrete is being filled in. This workmust be done near to the place where the poleis to be erected. When the concrete has setsolidly, the barrel may be slid into the holeprepared for it in the way shown in the illus- -u^. Prepared trench in which to slidebarrel tration. The flagpole is 38 feet high,made of sections as follows: One 15-foot length of extra heavy 23/2-inchiron pipe; one 10-foot length of 2-inchpipe; one 8-foot length of 1^-inchpipe; one 5-foot length of 1^-inchpipe. Total, 38 feet. The flagstaff isset 4 feet below the surface, giving anactual height of 34 feet. At the topof the last section a hole can be drilledthrough the pipe for the halyards, andsurmounting this an ornamental piececan be set on, including weathervane. It is important to paint eachsection three times, before settinginto position, ^and all the sectionsmust be well threaded and havegood sockets. Garden Boards and Their Uses When in early Spring we have spaded our garden, made the soil fine and mellow, and leveled it by use of the garde
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