. An encyclopædia of gardening; . 78.) with botli ends w^edge-shaped, in reversedpositions, and sharp, is used for cutting through the roots in felling timber ; the third,or mattock (^Jlg. 79.), is used chiefly for loosening hard surfaces and for grubbing uproots of small trees or bushes. It is sometimes called a crow, and also a grubbing-axe,hoe-axe, &c. 1297. Garden-levers are of two species, the removing and the carrpng lever. 1298. Tlie removing-lever {Jig. 80.) is a straight and generally cylindrical or polygonalbar of iron, somewhat tapered and wedge-shaped or flattened in the thick end
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . 78.) with botli ends w^edge-shaped, in reversedpositions, and sharp, is used for cutting through the roots in felling timber ; the third,or mattock (^Jlg. 79.), is used chiefly for loosening hard surfaces and for grubbing uproots of small trees or bushes. It is sometimes called a crow, and also a grubbing-axe,hoe-axe, &c. 1297. Garden-levers are of two species, the removing and the carrpng lever. 1298. Tlie removing-lever {Jig. 80.) is a straight and generally cylindrical or polygonalbar of iron, somewhat tapered and wedge-shaped or flattened in the thick end ; it is usedfor the removal of large stones or other heavy bodies, in which its advantage is as* thedistance of the power [a), from the fulcrum (6), &c. 1299. The carrying-lever, or hand-spoke, is used in pairs for carrying tubs of plants or otiierbodies or materials furnished with hooks or bearing staples, under or in which to insert thehand-spokes. Two of them united to a platform of boards form the common 81 82 83 85 86 84 89 1500. The spade (Jig. 81.) consists of tvro parts; tlie blade, of plate-iron, and the handle, 270 SCIENCE OF GARDENING. Past II. of tough root-cut ash timber, rather longer than tlie handle of the pick, but generally abouttwo feet nine inches. Spades are manufactured of different sizes, and generally with aflat blade ; but perforated blades {Jig, 82.) are sometimes pnzed, as cleaning or freeingthemselves better from earth in adhesive soils ; and semi-cylindrical blades {Jig. 83.), orwhat canal-diggers call grafting-tools, are preferred for the same reason, and also as enter-ing the soil easier, because gradually, and in effect as if a flat spade with a pointed orshield-like curved edge were used. Spades with curved edges or pointed blades are easiestto thrust into the earth in hard or stiff soils, and clean themselves better, but they aremore apt to leave untouched parts (baulks) in the bottom of the trench than the commonsquare-mouthed s
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