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SOME SPECIFIC ADVICE 



and is described as follows:* "E. W. Eeid de- 

 scribed an implement for trimming strawberry 

 plants in hills, which is much used in eastern 

 Ohio. It consists of a piece of heavy sheet -iron 

 about twenty -eight to thirty inches long and six 

 inches wide, the ends riveted to form a cylinder 

 about nine inches in diameter and six inches long. 



Attached to one end of 

 the cylinder, and on op- 

 posite sides, are two 

 pieces of strap -iron 

 which extend about six 

 inches beyond the end 

 of the cylinder and 

 join on the line of the 

 axis to a handle of 

 wrought - iron with a 

 wooden cross-piece at 

 the top, to be grasped 

 in using the implement. 

 The distance from the lower 

 edge of the cylinder tc the 

 top of the handle should be 

 about three feet four inches, 

 so that the workman will not 

 have to stoop in using it. 

 Instead of a cross-bar the 

 handle shown at the right may be used. With 



222. Strawberry 

 pruner. 



*W. S. Devol, reporting meeting of O. Hort. Soc. in American Garden, 

 xii., 175. 



