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and the posts are held in place by the uprights while being 

 driven. Any boy can raise the weight by pulling on the 

 rope." — Home and Farm; reported in American Garden, 771. 



Pruning-Saw. — (Fig. 17.) A saw-blade like 

 that in the illustration can be purchased for 25 

 cents. Insert it in a bent frame. — Popular Gar- 

 denings 159. 



Pruning Saw. — (Fig. 18.) This saw-blade is 

 about 22 inches long and an inch wide, with five 

 or six teeth to the inch and filed so that it cuts 

 but one way. It is set in a frame made of three- 

 quarter inch oval iron, four or five inches wide at 

 the base and tapering to two inches. A nut at 

 the base allows of tightening the blade. — C. E. 

 Cook, in Rural New- Yorker, 282. 



Pruning-Knife. — (Fig. 19.) This consists of a 

 long shaft at one end of which is a handle, and at 

 the other end is a curved blade. It is used for 

 removing canes and branches of thorny plants. — 

 G. Schneider, in Der Praktische Ratgeber im Obst- 

 und-Gartenbau, 28. 



Pruning - 

 She ars. — 

 (Fig. 20.) 

 The illustra- 

 tion shows 

 a p a i r of 

 home - made 

 shears, both 

 open and 

 shut. These 

 shears cut 

 upon both 

 motions, 

 that is, both 

 in opening 

 and closing. 

 — /. C Wood- 

 ruff, hi Popu- 

 lar Garden- 

 ing, 108. 

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