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Fig. 73 shows the basket nearly completed, with part of the rim finished, 

 and the rod on which the handle is to be formed inserted. 



Fig. 73. The English basket nearly complete. Fig. 74. Working the sides of the English basket. 



Fig. 74 shows the rim completed and part of the handle plaited. 



Further details will be found in the Arboretum Britannicum, vol. iii. p. 

 1471, but those above given will be sufficient to enable any person of ordinary 

 ingenuity to construct every kind of wickerwork, whether baskets or hur- 

 dles, that can be required for a garden. 



431. Carrying -baskets of different sizes are required in gardens for carrying 

 plants for being transplanted, seeds, sets or roots for planting, vegetables or 

 fruits from the garden to the kitchen, and for a variety of other purposes. A 

 basket for hanging before the operator when pruning or nailing wall trees, 

 is sometimes made of wands, and occasionally of split wood ; but a leathern 

 wallet, to be hereafter described, is greatly preferable. Larger and coarser 

 baskets than any of these are used for carrying soil, manures, tanner's bark, 

 weeds, &c., and are commonly called scuttles, creels, &c. 



432. Measuring-baskets are formed of particular dimensions, the largest 

 seldom containing more than a bushel, and others half-bushels, pecks, and 

 half-pecks. There are also pint baskets, punnets, pottles, and thumbs, 

 which are utensils in use in the London fruit and vegetable markets for con- 

 taining the more valuable vegetables, such as mushrooms, early potatoes, 

 forced kidney beans, and the more choice fruits. The bushel basket is gene- 

 rally made of peeled wands, but the others of split willow wood, or split 



