. 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. ^ Subsect. 1. Machines of Labor. 1440. The more cumbrous machines of gardening are the barrow, roller, watering-engine, boat-scythe, ladder engine, and transplanter. 199 1441. Garden-wlieelbarrows are of several species. The common garden-wheelbarrow {fi
. 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. ^ Subsect. 1. Machines of Labor. 1440. The more cumbrous machines of gardening are the barrow, roller, watering-engine, boat-scythe, ladder engine, and transplanter. 199 1441. Garden-wlieelbarrows are of several species. The common garden-wheelbarrow {fig. 199.) is a box, open at top, placed on two levers, terminating in a wheel and axle at one end, and in two handles at the other. They are commonly made of wood, the levers of ash or elm, and the sides and bottom of any soft wood. The wheel is either wholly of cast-iron, or of wood, shod with wrought-iron. Excellent garden-wheelbarrows are now made of wrought-iron ; but wooden ones are better for new ground work. They are used for conveying dung, weeds, garden-soils, litter, &c. 1442. The separating barrow is, in appearance, the same as the above, but the body being kept in its place by two iron bolts at opposite angles of the bottom, may be lifted off by two men, and thus tan, dung, and other articles are readily carried into hot-houses, where the wheel and levers could not be pushed along. 1443. The new ground work barrow (Jig. 200.) differs from the first in having the sides and back very low, and a front of the same height. It is made much stronger, and is used chiefly for wheeling earth, clay, or gravel, in extensive ex- cavations or removals of these materials. 1444. The haulm-barrow (Jig. 201.) is an open box or case of wicker or other work placed on or suspended from a pair of handles, with or without a wheel, and is useful for carrying litter, leaves, haulm, spray, prunings of hedges, &c. 1445. The Jlower-pot barrow is a flat surface and wheel, on which plant
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