302 SOME SPECIFIC ADVICE 



monly employed for tailors' shears. The highest 

 part of each bevel must come against the bevel 

 upoD which it acts." 



A pruning chisel is shown at g, Fig. 211. 

 Many persons prefer a chisel to all other tools, 

 because it allows the operator to stand on the 

 ground ; but, as said above, such implements 

 have only special uses. A two-inch or three -inch 

 carpenter's chisel may be mounted on a stiff pole; 



213. Hedge-shears. 



or a chisel may be made from a large file by 

 a local blacksmith, and, in this case, a hook may 

 be formed on the side with which to draw the 

 brush from the tree. Small branches may be 

 severed by means of a simple thrust of the tool, 

 and large ones are cut by striking the en.l of 

 the handle with a mallet. Tools of this type are 

 on the market. 



Another tool with a chisel -like edge is shown 

 in Fig. 217. This is an European tool, and is 

 used in pruning forests. Des Cars describes it as 

 follows:* "The best tool for the purpose is 



*"A Treatise on Pruning Forest ami Ornamental Trees," Amer. 

 Ed., 22. 



