GARDEN IMPLEMENTS. 



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is the common square hoe, as represented in the figure. 

 Its uses in the garden are manifold, and it has frequently 

 to do duty for several other implements. Its principal 



Fig. 147. 



uses are to clean the surface of the grounds from weeds, 

 to open drills for seeds, and to cover them. 



THE PRONG HOE (figure 148). This is one of the 

 most useful of all garden tools, and is far superior to the 

 blade hoe for stirring and pulverizing the soil. It can- 

 not, it is true, be used where weeds have been allowed to 

 grow to any considerable bight ; but then we claim that 

 in all well-regulated gar- 

 dens weeds should never 

 be allowed to grow so large 

 that they cannot be de- 

 stroyed by the prong hoe. 



THE DUTCH OR PUSH 

 HOE (figure 149) is some- 

 times preferred to the 

 preceding for cutting the 

 weeds between the rows of 

 vegetables,, a work which 

 can be done very quickly 

 by its aid. It is not so 



generally useful as the draw hoe, but is better for the 



special purposes of destroying weeds. 

 THE WARREN HOE (figure 150) is a new pattern of 



real merit. The blade is heart-shaped, and slightly 



Fig. 148. 



