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strongest branch will not resist its cutting, nor a single branch, 

 however well concealed, be inaccessible to it. Moreover, the 

 double notch on the back of the blade and hook (in which a wire 



FIG. 87. 



is shown in the figure) will enable the operator when employed at 

 his trellises to cut every wire without using the pincers. 



The Secateur Lecointe (Fig. 88) is another variety recommended by 

 the leading French horticultural journal. It appears to have some 

 advantages over the others in the substitution of a coiled spring for the 



