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every well regulated garden, enabling us to plant in 

 straight and accurate rows. The line should be of strong 

 hemp, and is wound upon the reel when not in use. 



THE PRUNING SAW, (Fig. Ill), is used for cutting off 

 branches that are too large for the knife, for removing 

 dead ones, etc. It can be had in various sizes, from 

 fourteen to twenty inches in length. 



THE GARDEN TROWEL, (Fig. 112), is used for setting 

 the smaller kinds of plants when transferred from pots to 

 the open ground; for transplanting annuals and many 

 other uses, it is a very necessary little implement. 



PRUNING AND BUDDING KNIVES, (Fig. 113), are ne- 

 cessary to every gardener. They are of different sizes 

 and shapes, for the various purposes of grafting, bud- 

 ding, etc., and are made of the best steel. 



GRAPE SCISSORS. These are slender-pointed scissors, 

 used for thinning out the berries of foreign grapes when 



Fig. 114. LAWN SCFTHE. 



they are about half grown, so that those that are left 

 may have room to develop. This operation should never 

 be neglected if large berries and well shaped bunches 

 are desired. 



FLOWER GATHERERS. A very useful article ; the 

 scissors cutting off, and at the same time holding fast 

 the flower or fruit after it is cut, thus enabling one 

 to reach much farther to cut flowers or fruits than if 

 both hands had to be used. It is particularly useful in 

 gathering rose-buds, as the stem can be cut off with but 

 little danger from the thorns. 



LAWN SCYTHES, (Fig. 114). The lawn scythe is now 

 but little used, the lawn mower taking its place, unless 



