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hoe ; a Flemish spade {Jig. 22.), used for throwing earth, and 

 paring hard paths and alleys, and the transplanter already 

 mentioned and figured, vol. i. p. 268. 



Of instruments we may notice a wheel vergecutter (coupe- 

 (razon) (Jg.2'3.), different descriptions of pincers, and secateurs, 

 more adapted for the amateur than the practical gardener. 

 There is a portable ladder (Jig. 24. ) which serves also as a 



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wheelbarrow : half the ladder (a) may either re- 

 main on the barrow frame (6), where it will 

 serve, by its pressure, to retain any rough bulky 

 material ; or it may be removed by withdrawing 

 a bolt (e c). When used as a common ladder, 

 it is eight feet long ; when used as a step-ladder, 

 the fourth step is three feet from the ground. 

 A man standing on the third step, and hold- 

 ing with one hand by what forms the tram of 

 the barrow (be), 

 may easily gather 

 fruit with the other 

 hand from a branch 

 ten feet from the 

 ground's surface. 



Among the utensils is a training basket (pu- 

 nier djxiiisser) (Jg. 25.) made of wiPow, for hold- 

 ing nails, lists, hammer, &c. ; it is placed before the operator, 

 and tied or buckled behind. A flower-pot (Jig. 26.) is formed 

 with a curved bottom, so as not to 25, 

 retain water. A naming-ticket (Jig. 

 27.) is described as to be suspended 

 to a branch by means of a brass wire, 

 on which is a running knot, to pre- 

 vent its compressing the bark. 



Every thing new and excellent in 

 the way of French instruments and 

 implements of gardening may be 

 seen or purchased chez MM. Arn- 

 heiter & Petit, rue Childebret, No. 13. Abbaye 

 St. Germain, and chez M. Delarue, rue de Mon- 

 ceau-St.-Gervais. Amateurs may write to their friends in Paris 

 to procure from these establishments a rose-gatherer, ringing 

 scissors, or any other fanciful article. 



