. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 103 iOS 1310. Hoes are of two species, die draw-hoe and thrust-hoe, of each of which there are several varieties. 1311. The draw-hoe {figs. 94. to 97.) is a plate of iron, six or seven inches long by two or three broad, attached to a handle about four fe
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 103 iOS 1310. Hoes are of two species, die draw-hoe and thrust-hoe, of each of which there are several varieties. 1311. The draw-hoe {figs. 94. to 97.) is a plate of iron, six or seven inches long by two or three broad, attached to a handle about four feet long, at an angle less than a right angle. The blade is either broad for cutting weeds f fig. 94.) ; deep and strong for drawing earth to die stems of plants (fig. 95.) ; curved so as to act like a double mould- boarded plough in drawing drills ; formed into two strong broad prongs for stirring hard adhesive soils (fig. 96.); or it is formed to accomplish the first and last purposes, as in the double hoe. (Jig. 97.) 1312. The thrust-hoe (figs. 98, and 99.) consists of a plate of iron attached somewhat obliquely to the end of a handle, either by a bow (fig. 98.), or a straight piece, (fig. 99.) These hoes, which are sometimes called Dutch hoes, are used only for killing weeds, or loosening ground which is to be afterwards raked. As a man can draw more than he can push, most heavy work will be easiest done by the draw-hoe. 1313. The wheel-hoe (Jig. 108.) is a compound between the draw and thrust hoes, being drawn by one man and thrust by another. It is used for hoeing garden-walks in the Low Countries and France, where the walks are either of sand or earth. In this coun- try it could seldom be employed for this purpose ; and indeed for this or any other object it is a bad implement, as it requires two men to work it; and two men working with the same tool will never do as much work as if they used separate tools. 1314. The garden-rake consists of a range of teeth inserted in
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