504 NURSERY AKD FRUIT GARDEX IMPLEMENTS. 



immediate consumption. The ladder, hook, and hatid are 

 the only safe and expeditious fruit-gatherers. Some are 

 made in the form of a vase of wood or tin placed on the 

 end of a pole. The edge of tlie vase is toothed, and 

 when the stem of the fruit is taken between two of the 

 teetli, and slightly twisted, it drops. Others are composed 

 of a pair of shears on tlie end of a pole, to which a basket 

 'is attached that slides up and down the handle. 



Fl^ 100 — BARROW-ENGINE. 



The Grape- Gatherer resembles a pair of shears com- 

 bining the property of pincers. They cut a bunch of 



