. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1883 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, with directions for their culture : also, a large assortment of plants, gladiolus, lilies, horticultural requisites, &c. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. WISS TREE-PRUNING SHEARS. These shears are attached to a pole, and operated by means of a le\'ei-, mo
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1883 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, with directions for their culture : also, a large assortment of plants, gladiolus, lilies, horticultural requisites, &c. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. WISS TREE-PRUNING SHEARS. These shears are attached to a pole, and operated by means of a le\'ei-, moved a cord and pulley. It enables a iierson standing on the ground to prune trees, .some of the branches of'which could not. perhaps, be as well pruned by any other instrument. Branches of one inch and a half in diameter may be easily tut off with this instrument. Price, without handle, $2.;")0; by mail, THE O, G. PRUNER. This is an improved haud-pruner of the French jiattern, but English make. They are strong and durable, and make a clean cut. We have three sizes, G, 7, and 8 in., which we offer at $, $, $; by mall, 25 cents each WEEK'S tiKAPE, FRUIT, AND FliOVVER PICKER. Valentinh's Pat., Auc. 1, 1865. This cut represents one of the most useful articles of its kind yet invented, which supplies a want that has long, been felt. Every one engaged in picking fruit knows the difficulty of detaching the fruit from the branch and depositing it in the basket or other receptacle for receiving it without bruising the fruit, and particularly with Grapes, for unless verj' great care is exei cised, each bunch be more or less injured. The tool is a pair of shears so arranged with a steel spring holdfast that the stem is cut and held so that the fruit can bo deposited in the receptacle for receiving it without touching it with the hands. It will take the smallest cherry, ov hold a bunch of grapes weighing Ave pounds. For picking oranges, where tlie branch
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