The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . Fig. in diameter is clipped square of!by this tool, with as much ease as a jack-knife will clip a carrot. This graftinginstrument may be at once transformedinto shears for pruning, by substitutingfor the bed-piece C, another and blunt- Fig. 76. er blade—(fig. 75.) In order to make the principle of the working part of this instrumentmore clearly understood, we annex two simple figures, (fig. 76,) the onerepresenting the objectionable mode sometimes adopted, of placing thepivot at the angle in the b
The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . Fig. in diameter is clipped square of!by this tool, with as much ease as a jack-knife will clip a carrot. This graftinginstrument may be at once transformedinto shears for pruning, by substitutingfor the bed-piece C, another and blunt- Fig. 76. er blade—(fig. 75.) In order to make the principle of the working part of this instrumentmore clearly understood, we annex two simple figures, (fig. 76,) the onerepresenting the objectionable mode sometimes adopted, of placing thepivot at the angle in the blade, the dotted lines (which are nothing morethan circles described around the pivot a as a center,) clearly showingthat this blade cuts only at right angles, and consequently does not pos-sess the power of the other blade, where the pivot being placed belowthe angle, the cut is made obliquely,—it has the draw-cut, FRUIT LADDERS. Convenient fruit-ladders greatly facilitate the gathering of fruit, pre-vent its becoming bruised, and save it from mutilation by chafing. A very simple
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