FRU IT-TREES. 99 



CHAP. XXXIV. 



The Inflruments and Materials proper for 

 a Dreffer of Fruit-trees. 



I. A Well-tempered knife, with a nar- 

 jL\. row blade at the point, not much 

 crooked. 



2. A whetftone for fharpening it. 



3. A mallet and chifTel, well tempered, 

 about two inches broad, and not too thick. 



4. A pair of fiieai: or fciflars to clip 

 fhreads with. 



5. Strong nails a little more than an inch 

 long, with thick flianks and heads : thofe 

 made of E??glifi iron are beft. 



6. A hammer, with a fliaft longer than 

 the fpaces bet'ween the rounds of the lad- 

 der. 



7. A bafKCt about 12 inches long, fix 

 broad, and fix deep, with loops to put a 

 belt through on one fide, that it may hang 

 before the pruner, having the fide on which 

 the loops are made bending, to reft the 

 better againft his body, and a divlfion in 

 the middle for two different forts of fhreads, 



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