Gardening for profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden . been thoroughly pulverized by the teeth of the harrow, itis turned upside down, and backed, as we term it; theshort blunt teeth further breaking up the soil and smooth-ing it to a proper condition to receive the seeds or there are many spots in the gap3 den that it is impracticable to plow,such as our frames, borders, and oc-casionally between rows where thespace is too narrowfor a horse to walk;such places mustbe dug, and herewe use the Dig-ging Fork, repre-sented by fig. 8, inpreference t
Gardening for profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden . been thoroughly pulverized by the teeth of the harrow, itis turned upside down, and backed, as we term it; theshort blunt teeth further breaking up the soil and smooth-ing it to a proper condition to receive the seeds or there are many spots in the gap3 den that it is impracticable to plow,such as our frames, borders, and oc-casionally between rows where thespace is too narrowfor a horse to walk;such places mustbe dug, and herewe use the Dig-ging Fork, repre-sented by fig. 8, inpreference to thespade. Its prongsenter the soil moreeasily than theblade of the spade,Fig. 8.—:digging fork, and by striking thesoil turned over, with the back of thefork, it pulverizes it better than canbe done by the blade of the there are many operations in thegarden, such as the digging up ofroots, earthing up of Celery, etc., for which the spade isindispensable. For such purposes, the one representedby fig. 9, and known as Ames No. 2, Plain-back, wefind the
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