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Implements. 



Steel rakes, with from six to fifteen more or less closely 

 set teetb, are used in all surface finishing and for breaking 

 up and levelling spaded soil. A rake eighteen inches wide, 

 with fourteen strong steel teeth, is the best for ordinary use. 

 The handle should be long and of light, strong material. 

 Wooden rakes are chiefly used in cleaning lawns of leaves 

 and other rubbish. 



A sod-iron is the most handy and expedient tool for 

 cutting grass-turfs, for edging lawns, for terraces and sloping 

 surfaces. It consists of a heart- 

 shaped steel blade, very thin, 

 with a sharp-cutting edge. It 

 is attached to a long handle in 

 the same manner as a scuffle- 

 hoe. In cutting sods, strips are 

 first marked out in the lawn or 

 pasture by means of a spade 

 or verge-cutter. The verge-cut- 

 ter or edging iron is further 

 used in cutting clean the 

 edges of a lawn after sod- 

 ding. It is a simple steel fiq. is.-edqinq irons. 

 blade with a rounded edge, attached to a straight 

 wooden handle about five feet long. Another kind con- 

 sists of a thin circular plate with a very sharp edge, and 

 revolving on a steel axle fastened in a fork attached to a 

 straight handle. 



The mallet consists of a rectangular piece of wood about 

 eight inches long, six inches broad and four inches thick, 

 and a short handle ten inches or a foot long. It is used in 



FIQ. 17— TURF 

 IRON. 



