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a budding-knife : these are of various forms and sizes. The 

 asparagus knife is in fact a saw, about four inches long, at 

 the end of an iron shank, wliich is thrust into a wooden 

 handle. 



1 2. The Bill-hook is to use for chopping off limbs of trees 

 and slirubs too heavy for the pruning-knife. 



13. Saws are useful for removing branches that are too 

 large for the bill-hook, and smaller saws are used for pruning 

 and cutting back branches which require to be shortened. 



14. Prunixg-shears. —These are made of various forms 

 and sizes ; but the one called the rose-pruner is the most 

 useful by means of a lever at the joint ; the wood is separated 

 by a complete draw cut. Some are made of a much larger size, 

 and with long wooden handles to reach a considerable height 

 and remove tolerably large branches. 



15. Edging-shears are used for cHpping the edges of 

 grass after mowing, and hedge or ordinary garden-shears are 

 used to trim box edging, clip shrubs and hedges. 



16. Scythes for mowing are of several kinds, but all drop 

 now into two principal ones in general use : Boyd's Patent 

 Vulcan Scythe, which is plain and sharp, and the blade so 

 hilted that an old one is removed and a new one fixed in less 

 time than it takes us to write it ; the other is Boyd's Self- 

 adjusting Scythe, which can be set at any angle, and changed 

 from long to short grass, and adapted for tall or short mowers 

 by only turning a screw or two. 



17. A Mowing IMachine is of great service where there is 

 much lawn : these implements are much in use in good 

 establishments. Several different patents have been granted, 

 and four have been publicly tried at Chiswick : Dray's, 

 Green's, Shanks' s, and Farrabee's. We have had Dray's in 

 use, and find it answer every purpose, mowing very clean and 

 even. They cost about six pounds — less than any of the 

 others the same size. 



18. Garden Exgixes are made of many sizes and different 

 powers. One of these is very useful to water things over- 

 head after the sun is down, or to water crops. 



19. The Syringe. — Xothincr can be well cultivated under 

 glass without the use of the spinge. 



20. Watering-pots, large, middling, and small : it is well 

 to have an extra length of spout to one of them, to reach 

 some distance. There is a new one called Glenn/s. 



