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been thoroughly pulverized by the teeth of the harrow, it 

 is turned upside down, and " backed," as we term it ; the 

 short blunt teeth further breaking up the soil and smooth- 

 ing it to a proper condition to receive the seeds or plants. 

 But there are many spots in the gar- 

 den that it is impracticable to plow, 

 such as our frames, borders, and oc- 

 casionally between rows where the 

 space is too narrow 

 for a horse to walk ; 

 such places must 

 be dug, and here 

 we use the Dig- 

 ging Fork, repre- 

 sented by fig. 8, in 

 preference to the 

 spade. Its prongs 

 enter the soil more 

 easily than the 

 blade of the spado, 

 Bis. a— digging fork, and by striking the 

 soil turned over, with the back of the 

 fork, it pulverizes it better than can 

 be done by the blade of the spade. 

 Still there are many operations in the 

 garden, such as the digging up of 

 roots, earthing up of Celery, etc., for which the spade is 

 indispensable. For such purposes, the one represented 

 by fig. 9, and known as " Ames' No. 2, Plain-back," we 

 find the best. 



Fig. 9.— ames' No. 2 



SPADE. 



