. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. The grass-hook (Fig. 48) resembles the old sickle, or reap- Fig. «. ing-hook, except in being some- what shorter, and having a plain instead of a toothed edge. It is used for cutting the grass I from'edgings or other limited spaces Tvhere the scythe can not be Tvorked. Gra=s-hook. The gi-ass-edger (Fig. -if!) is , strong, crescent-foi-med steel plate, with a
. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. The grass-hook (Fig. 48) resembles the old sickle, or reap- Fig. «. ing-hook, except in being some- what shorter, and having a plain instead of a toothed edge. It is used for cutting the grass I from'edgings or other limited spaces Tvhere the scythe can not be Tvorked. Gra=s-hook. The gi-ass-edger (Fig. -if!) is , strong, crescent-foi-med steel plate, with a socket for the han- dle extcndino- from its inner centre. It is used foi cutting the edges of grass-paths, plots, or edgings, either -with a stretched line or hj the y eye, the handle being of sufficient length to ena- 'l ble the operator to throw his weight on to it as ' he presses it Ijcfjre him. A slight change is f n 1., r sometimes made in the form of the knife, and a small wheel geared to rrm ahead of it, which has the advan- tages of giving it gautre and steadiness. Fig. «. K FriRES. All pronged and toothed im})lements for working in the earth, &c., should have their prongs or teeth of steel, and neither round nor flat, but either oval or fjm'- sided, the thickness or depth of the prong or tooth being made greater than its width, so that its greatest strength may always be opposed to the greatest strain. This is of special importance in the implements figiu'ed above and in the potato-hook. In rakes it is desirable, though not essential. The spade-fork (Fig. 50) is simply a strongly-made, square-headed, fom--prong- ed steel fork, of which the prongs should Spadf:-fork. bc about ten inchcs long, from one half to. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Watson,
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