Bulbs, plants, and seeds for autumn planting : 1897 . THE PLUMLEY FRUIT PICKER. A very simple device, withoutsprings or machinery to get outof order or in jurethefruit,whichispuUedoff by three curved ironfingers, and it rolls easily downa cloth tube, the bottom ofwhich can be held in a basketor barrel. By holding the clothtube with one hand the fall ofeach fruit is checked, and canlet out as easily as the operatordesires, preventing the picker does not have tobe lowered with each fruit, aswith some pickers, the result isten times as much can bepicked, and with greater ease,by one p

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Bulbs, plants, and seeds for autumn planting : 1897 . THE PLUMLEY FRUIT PICKER. A very simple device, withoutsprings or machinery to get outof order or in jurethefruit,whichispuUedoff by three curved ironfingers, and it rolls easily downa cloth tube, the bottom ofwhich can be held in a basketor barrel. By holding the clothtube with one hand the fall ofeach fruit is checked, and canlet out as easily as the operatordesires, preventing the picker does not have tobe lowered with each fruit, aswith some pickers, the result isten times as much can bepicked, and with greater ease,by one person. The length ofthe tube is llj^ feet, enabling aman of ordinary height to reachfruit 16 feet from the ground,and as much lower as desiredby having poles of differentlengths. We do not furnishpoles. Price (without pole), $, or prepaid by mail, $ WIRE FRUIT PICKER. A very excellent device ; can be attached to poles of any , without pole, 25c. ; by mail,

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