The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . in the habit of keeping pruned the rose-bushes of a small garden, I havealways experienced much inconvenience from their prickles, which, to say D 3 38 General Notices. nothing of the detriment done to the sleeves of the dress, will frequentlyinsert tlicnisclves between the f^lovcs and tiiosc sleeves, scratching thewrists, and causing no slight degree of uncomfortableness, anil, I may say,of present and after pain. To obviate this long experienced difficulty, itat length entered, I cannot exactly say my own imagination, to
The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . in the habit of keeping pruned the rose-bushes of a small garden, I havealways experienced much inconvenience from their prickles, which, to say D 3 38 General Notices. nothing of the detriment done to the sleeves of the dress, will frequentlyinsert tlicnisclves between the f^lovcs and tiiosc sleeves, scratching thewrists, and causing no slight degree of uncomfortableness, anil, I may say,of present and after pain. To obviate this long experienced difficulty, itat length entered, I cannot exactly say my own imagination, to conceive,that gloves niaile after the fashion of gauntlets would at once protectboth wrists and sleeves from injury; and in this idea some members of myfamily gave a glove-maker instructions in nudging a pair of stout leather,which appear as if they would well answer the purpose, preventing theintrusion even of the strongest prickles. Believing that many huly gar-deners may have felt the same inconvenience, witliout, perluii)s, havingthought of a remedy, I am induce
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