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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



SEASONABLE HINTS. 



CONVENIENT LADDERS. 



A LITTLE forethought during the leisure hours of the winter season 



(sjhA will provide many a useful implement for the farmer and gardener. 



During fruit season it is almost impossible to have a super-abundance 



of ladders for gathering fruit. In recent volumes we have described 



several easily made fruit ladders, and now give cuts of one or two others. 



Fig. n. — Self-supporting Ladder. 



A correspondent, Mr. Harris, of Meaford, sends a photograph of a self- 

 supporting step-ladder, which he describes as resting on five bearings, three 

 of them adjustable as to length and position, and easily adapted to all 

 inequalities of surface, perfectly secure, and very portable ; a six-foot ladder 



