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Annals of Horticulture. 



Strawberry-Planter. — (Fig. 21.) "This is made of a 2- 

 inch pine plank, 6x8 inches, made into a perfect wedge and 

 covered on two sides with a strip of tin 6x16 inches. A piece 

 of ^4-inch board, 4x8 inches, is nailed on the thick 

 end, projecting an inch on all sides. A little on one 

 side from the center a hole is bored, into which the 

 handle is firmly screwed. The latter is an iron rod 

 3^ feet long."— H. Salisbury, in Popular Garden- 

 ing, 151. 



Hand-Barrow. — (Fig. 22.) The hand-barrow is 

 " arranged for carrying three crates (of strawberries) 

 if necessary or about 180 pounds. The side pieces 

 are of light but strong material, 4 inches wide and 

 iy 2 inches thick and 7 feet long. Handles are 

 worked on each end and the two pieces connected 

 by two cross-pieces framed in, about 3 feet apart 

 or justright to hold three crates, placed cross- 

 wise, making the barrow 2 feet wide, inside meas- 

 ure." — L. B. Pierce, in Popular Gardening, 88. 



Machine for Moving Large Trees.- — (Figs. 23, 

 24.) "The machine consists of a hind axle, 12 feet 

 long, and broad-tired wheels that will not cut up a 

 lawn or sink into the soft soil about the holes. The 

 main frame is made of spruce 3x8 inches and 20 feet long ; the 

 frames in the cuts are only 16 feet in length, which was not suffi- 

 cient, as the earth thrown out from the hole into which the tree 



was to be planted inter- 

 fered with the free move- 

 ment of the machine till I 

 made it longer. The 

 braces are 3x5 inches 

 and 10 feet long, and 

 the uprights 3x9 inches 

 and 3 feet high ; these 

 are bolted to the hind 

 axle and main frame. The front axle has a set of blocks 

 bolted together, and of sufficient height to support the front 

 end of the frame. Into the top timbers, 3x6 inches, hollows 

 are cut at the proper distances to receive the ends of two 

 locust rollers. Holes can be bored through the rollers and 

 large ropes from the roots can be made fast to them and by 



Fig. 22. 



