. 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. 1333. The shears used in gardening are of several species. 1334. T?ie pruning-shcars (fig. 122.) differ from the common sort, in having a moveable centre (a) for the motion of one of the blades, by which means, instead of a crushing-cut, they make a draw
. 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. 1333. The shears used in gardening are of several species. 1334. T?ie pruning-shcars (fig. 122.) differ from the common sort, in having a moveable centre (a) for the motion of one of the blades, by which means, instead of a crushing-cut, they make a draw-cut, leaving the section of the part attached to the tree as firm and smooth as if cut off with a knife. It is used in the same way as the common shears, and is very convenient in reducing the size of the shrubs or bushes, and clipping hedges of roses or other select plants. 1335. The ringing-shears (fig. 123.) is an instrument of French invention for expediting the practice of ringing trees. A two-bladed knife, with both blades open at once, will give the best idea of its mode of operating, and is, in fact, a good substitute. 123 124. 1336. The French pruning-shears (fig. 124.), by the curvature of the cutting blade, cuts in a sort of medium way between the common crushing and pruning shears: it is an expeditious implement for pruning the vine. 1337. Hedge-shears (figs. 125 & 126.) are composed of two blades, acting in unison by means of a pivot, on which they turn, on trie principle of a lever of the second kind. They were formerly much used in gardening, for hedges, fanciful figures, bowers, and even fruit-shrubs, which were then shorn or trimmed, into globes, cones, and pyramids, by shears. At present the taste is different. Shears, however, are still wanted for hedges of privet and yew; but where the twigs or shoots are stronger, as in the holly, thom, and beech, the hedge-bill or pruning-shears is preferable, as producing wounds more easily cicatrised, and not thick
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