§n. Tools and Conveniences of the Year. 



VARIOUS DEVICES FOR FACILITATING HORTICULTURAL LABOR 

 WHICH HAVE BEEN INVENTED OR FIRST PROMINENTLY 

 MENTIONED IN 1891. 



[None of the devices here described are in any manner recommended 

 by the Editor.] 



Combined Cultivator and Finger-Weeder. — (Fig. i.) 



This instru- 

 ment is de- 

 signed to com- 

 bine the ad- 

 vantages of a 

 cultivator and 

 weeder by the 

 use of the fin- 

 ger-teeth. 

 "The design 

 is wrong, "the 

 editor of the 

 Rural New- 

 Yorker thinks, 

 They will simply 



Fig. 



" because the rods are too heavy and stiff 

 plow through the soil, when they should be limber enough to 

 ' give ' and slide over obstacles. 

 The machine is patented." — 

 Rural New- Yorker, 73. 



Home-Made Wheel - Hoe. — 

 (Fig. 2.) This is made from 

 cast-off plow-handles and any old 

 flat-tired wheel. The knife is 

 made of hoop-iron. It is a good 

 scraper or scarifier for garden 

 crops. — Home and Farm ; reported 

 in Popular Gardening, 178, ijg. 



(362) 



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