Archive image from page 288 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode01john Year: 1847 HOE 293 HOE These have all handles varying in length from eight inches and a half to eighteen inches, all the neck or upper part form- ed of iron, for the smaller sizes not thicker than a large pencil, and that part which has to be grasped by the workman is only six inches long, and ' formed either of willow or some other soft light wood, which is best to the feel of the hand; for hard heavy wood is cumbersome, harsh, and tiring.' Each labourer works ' with one
Archive image from page 288 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode01john Year: 1847 HOE 293 HOE These have all handles varying in length from eight inches and a half to eighteen inches, all the neck or upper part form- ed of iron, for the smaller sizes not thicker than a large pencil, and that part which has to be grasped by the workman is only six inches long, and ' formed either of willow or some other soft light wood, which is best to the feel of the hand; for hard heavy wood is cumbersome, harsh, and tiring.' Each labourer works ' with one in each hand, to cut right and left.' ' 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 time.' 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 hoe, to clean which, when used of a dewy morning, causes the loss of much time in scraping.' ' 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 apt like a double mould-boarded plough in drawing drills, formed into two strong broad prongs for stirring hard adhesive soils,—or it is formed to accomplish the first and last purposes, as in the double hoe or Dutch hoe. ' The thrust-hoe consists of a plate of iron attached somewhat obliquly to the end of a handle by a bow, used only for killing weeds or loosening ground which is to be afterwards raked. As a man can draw more than he can push, most h
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