. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. HOE 293 HOE These have all handles varying in length ; The whole length of this prong is nine from eight inches and a half to eighteen inches, and it is attached to a staff five inches, all the neck or upper part form- feet long. Such an implement is light ed of iron, for the smaller sizes not! and easy to use; it requires no sloop- thicker than a large pencil, and that ing, and will tear up the deepest-rooted part which has to be grasped by the j ;' workman is only six inches long, and ; Hoes are made in a great variety of " forme
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. HOE 293 HOE These have all handles varying in length ; The whole length of this prong is nine from eight inches and a half to eighteen inches, and it is attached to a staff five inches, all the neck or upper part form- feet long. Such an implement is light ed of iron, for the smaller sizes not! and easy to use; it requires no sloop- thicker than a large pencil, and that ing, and will tear up the deepest-rooted part which has to be grasped by the j ;' workman is only six inches long, and ; Hoes are made in a great variety of " formed either of willow or some other forms; the following, figured in The soft light wood, which is best to the feel Rural Register, are those most gene- of the hand; for hard heavy wood is ' rally used, and perhaps are all which cumbersome, harsh, and ; Each i are truly desirable ; they are, when well labourer works " with one in each hand, to cut right and ; "The blade is made thin, and with a little foresight and activity it is astonishing how much ground can be got over in a short ; Mr. Barnes has all his hoes made with a crane neck. The blades broader than four inches Mr. Barnes has made like a Dutch hoe. "The crane neck allows the blade to pass freely and kindly under the fo- liage of any crop where the earth re- quires loosening; and the blade works itself clean, allowing the earth to pass through, as there is no place for it to lodge and clog up as in the old-fash- ioned hoc, to clean which, when used of a dewy morning, causes the loss of much time in ; " The draw-hoe" is correctly de- scribed by Mr. Loudon as a " plate of iron attached to a handle about four feet long, at an angle less than a right angle. The blade is either broad for cutting weeds, deep and strong for drawing earth to the stems of plants, curved, so as to act like a double mould-boarded plough in drawing drills, formed into two st
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