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branches which can be united by ap- Fig. eo. 



proach-grafting, the two forks may be 

 kept from splitting down by this ar- 

 rangement. When pruning young trees, 

 let the pruner keep this one thought 

 bright, to avoid forked tops and forked 

 branches. (See Fig. 57, p. 128.) 



Doty's Combined Pruner and Fruit- 

 plucker. The illustration herewith giv- 

 en represents a useful and efficient tool, 

 which has been perfected by Wm. M. 

 Doty, of New York city, for pruning 

 berry-bushes ; and which is an admira- 

 ble edge-tool for pruning any kind of 

 fruit-trees. At the left side of Fig. 60, 

 the pruner and plucker is represented 

 as ready for use. At a the little sack 

 is represented, which is employed to re- 

 ceive an apple when, the chisel severs 

 the stem. At b the knob on the end of 

 the piston is represented. The piston, 

 , plays back and forth through the me- 

 tallic sheath, c. At e an enlarged view 

 of the metallic hook is given, which ap- 

 pears in the upper end of the left-hand 

 figure. At /, a thin wide chisel is repre- 

 sented, which moves back and forth on 

 the side of the hook e, when the tool is 

 in use. At g a spring is shown, which draws the chisel back 

 after it has been thrust forward to cut off the branch that 

 may be received in the hook, e. A shoulder is formed on 

 the piston, near the iron knob &, by not dividing the pole 

 quite its entire length, which, striking against the end of 

 the hook-holding portion, arrests any surplus force of stroke 



Doty's combined pruner 

 and fruit-plucker. 



