I'm still plowing through the pages of The Flower Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Gardener by Ida D. Bennett (1910) and like a gardener who has stumbled across something while hoeing and stops to see what it is, I have paused to take a closer look at chapter 23, "A Chapter of Odds and Ends".
(Excellent use of plowing and hoeing in that sentence, don't you think?)
In this chapter, Ms.