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TOOLS, IMPLEMENTS, &c. To the 
pp. 53-7, Vol. IV., the following may be added : 
list on 
Fic. 715. AERIAL AUTOMATIC TREE-PRUNER. 
Aerial Automatic Tree- Pruner. ‘This is an im- 
provement on the Avyerruncator, described in Vol. IV., 
page 53, being lighter, more easily worked, and, what is 
of more importance to the good pruner, the cuts are clean 
and well made. The mode of its working is well 
described on the page referred to. See Fig. 715. 
Aerial Pruning Saw. It frequently occurs that 
branches are too thick for the Tree-Praners named to cut ; 
therefore it is always advisable to purchase this Saw as 
well. By its means branches as thick as the ankle are 
easily cut through, withont climbing into the tree. The 
teeth facing the operator cause the Saw to be drawn 
towards the pruner, making the work easy; it also 
avoids bruising of the tree, as so frequently is done 
when the saw is pushed. 
BUD-REMOVING TOOL. 
Fic. 716. 
Bud-removing Tool. One of the difficulties that con- 
fronts gardeners from time to time is the clean removal 
of buds for inserting in other plants. This is now re- 
moved by an invention of an American, Mr. Duncan 
Galbraith, of New Orleans. The tool is shown in the 
accompanying illustration, for which, as well as for the 
matter describing it, we are indebted to the ‘‘Scientific 
American.”’ According to that, the tool consists of two 
pivoted levers, or handles, each having a cross-head upon 
THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Tools, Implements, &e.—continued. 
one end. To each cross-head a pair of blades is 
screwed formed with concave cutting-edges, so that 
when the handles are brought together only the top and 
bottom portions will touch. The space between the 
blades is open, so that the bud cannot be injured. The 
pairs of blades, constituting jaws in effect, are held in 
adjasted positions by a link which is pivoted to one 
handle, and which is made to receive a set-screw carried 
by the other handle. The jaws are fitted to the exterior 
of the limb, twig, or branch, the bud being midway 
between the pairs of jaws. After the blades have been 
closed firmly around the branch, and locked in adjusted 
position, the tool is turned so as to cut a sleeve or ring 
of bark from the branch, as shown in the illustration. 
See Fig. 716. The limb to which the bnd is to be trans- 
planted has a section of its bark removed by a similar 
tool, the space thus formed corresponding in length with 
the sleeve of bark carrying the bud to be transplanted. 
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Fic. 717. IDEAL FRUIT-PICKER AND BRANCH-PRUNER. 
Ideal Fruit-Picker and Branch-Pruner. The value 
of this implement for gathering fruit in positions awk- 
ward to get at isso great that it is almost indispensable 
where tall trees are grown in any quantity. As will be 
seen in the illustration (Fig. 717), the operator severs the 
frnit from the branch, and it falls into the net immediately 
