. 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. 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.
. 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. 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 thickening the outer surface of the hedge, by which means the interior shoots rot for want of air, especially in thom and other deciduous hedges 125 126. 13S8. Verge-shears (fig. 127.) are a species in which the blades are joined to the handles by kneed shanks, to lessen stooping in the operator. They are chiefly used for trimming the sides of box-edgings and grass- verges. A variety has a small wheel appended, which in cutting grass-edgings is a great improvement. 1339. Turf-shears (fig. 128.) are another variety, for cutting the tops of box-edgings and the tufts of grass at the roots of shrubs, not easily got at by the scythe. Some of three have also a wheel or even two wheels on an axle fixed to the shears on the principle of the Please note that these images are extracted
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