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Floicer-Baskets, and Basketwork Edgings. 



wire furnishes materials in abundance for all purposes, and may 

 be worked into any figure or device the taste or whim of the 

 applier may direct. Subjoined are forms {Jigs. 18, 19, 20. ), which 



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Fig. 18. Fig. 19. Fig. 20. 



may be used as in the accompanying sketches (Jigs. 21. to 26.), 

 or, upon the same principle, varied ad injinitiim. I have no 

 claim whatever to anything like invention in the matter ; I have 



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Fig. 21. 



Fig. 22. 



seen them frequently used, and have used them with advantage, 

 and do not doubt that, were they generally known, they would 

 be more common. When they are taken up for the season, 



Fig. 23. Fig. 24. 



they ought to be well cleaned and painted before they are put 

 by. They are too often left to corrode until a few days before 

 they are wanted in spring : this ought not to be, as their dura- 



Fig. 25. Fig. 26. 



bility greatly depends on using proper precaution. Each of 

 these pieces, 1 ft. in breadth, and made of good strong wire, 

 costs about 2d. 



I may fill the remaining corner of my paper by observing 

 that single-stemmed specimens of choice trees or shrubs, planted 

 where they are surrounded by grass, often (after all reasonable 

 care has been taken) suffer severe injury, by the bark at the 

 collar being cut through by the scythe while cutting the grass. 

 There must either be a risk of this taking place, or a portion of 

 the surrounding grass left to be removed by safer means, at a 

 great sacrifice of time. To guard against these evils, something 

 more than seeming protection is necessary : and a piece of sheet 



