. Descriptive catalogue of agricultural and horticultural implements, machines, and seeds ... With brief directions for sowing, planting, and culture, and rules for the application of guano, plaster, bone dust ... Fig. 75 represent this article without the Pruning notch. Fig. 70 hasthe pruning notch, which is of considerable advantage, when used fortrimming hedges or shrubbery, as it enables the operator to cut muchstronger twigs than could otherwise be cut by the shears. Figure 77. Figure Grass Edging or Border Shears. Fig. 77 is chiefly used for trimming the sides of box and grass edgin
. Descriptive catalogue of agricultural and horticultural implements, machines, and seeds ... With brief directions for sowing, planting, and culture, and rules for the application of guano, plaster, bone dust ... Fig. 75 represent this article without the Pruning notch. Fig. 70 hasthe pruning notch, which is of considerable advantage, when used fortrimming hedges or shrubbery, as it enables the operator to cut muchstronger twigs than could otherwise be cut by the shears. Figure 77. Figure Grass Edging or Border Shears. Fig. 77 is chiefly used for trimming the sides of box and grass edgings,and is constructed so that the operator may stand upright whilst usingthem ; the one figured here has a wheel attached, which is generallyconsidered an advantage. Ladies Garden Sliears. Fig. 78 is small, light, and neatly finished, and is very useful for trim-ming box trees and bushes, as well as for many other purposes. Ladies Primiaig Shears. Figure 79. AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL TOOLS. 57 Fig. 79, with wood handles, is handsomely and lightly made ; they arevery useful in trimming shrubbery, &c, which is too large to be cut bythe Hand Shears. Jlvarrancator—Pole Priming Shears. Figure 80. Fig. 80 is attached to a pole and operates by means of a lever movedby a cord and pulley : its use is to enable a person, standing on the ground,to prune trees, some of the branches of which could not, perhaps, bereadily pruned by any other process ; branches of one inch and a half indiam
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