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patch or field to its own wild impulses for a year or so, and you may find 

 a "slip of wilderness " in the midst of your garden that will require not a 

 little strength and patience to subdue. By far the best weapon for such 

 a battle, and the best implement also for cutting out the old wood, is the 

 powerful and long-handled shears suggested in the engraving of the early 

 Wilson variety. 



