IMPLEMENTS FOR CUTTING. 



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ing is to be done. Wherever the saw is use*d, the cut 

 surface should be pared smooth with the knife, to facili- 

 tate its healing. 



Long-handled pruning-saws are sometimes recommended, 

 but never should be 

 used in pruning fruit- 

 trees, if possible to 

 avoid it. The branch 

 to be operated should 

 be reached by means 

 of a ladder, if need 

 be, within arm's 

 length, and cut with 

 a common saw. 



Hand Pruning- 

 Shears (fig. 177). 

 There is a kind of 

 these made now, 

 that, having a mov- 

 ing center, as in the 

 figure, make a smooth 

 draw cut almost 

 equal to that of a 

 knife, and it is a very 

 expeditious instru- 

 ment in the hand of 

 a skilful workman. In pruning out small 

 dead branches, shortening in peach- 

 trees, etc., it will perform four times as 



much work as a knife. 



Fig. 173. POINTED 



Pruning Scissors (fig. 178). These GARDEN-HOE. 

 scissors cut as smoothly as a knife, and can be easily car- 

 ried in the pocket, ready to take away a small branch 

 wherever it may chance to be observed. 



Lopping or Branch Shears. These are very strongly 



-DUTCH OB 

 THRUST-HOE. 



