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better ; and are known amongst gardeners, &c., by their numbers, which rim from 
2 to 6, but 3 and 4 are the common sizes used in gardening-. 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 
Fig. 2 varies in nothing from the preceding, except the part at the top, which is 
invariably occupied by the hand. Instead of being one piece of wood, as fig. 1., the 
cross piece at the top is mortised on the upright, and is by some people much 
preferred to the former, being considered more ready and easy. 
Figures 3 and 4 are in shape and material the same as the former, size excepted. 
This sized spade is proper for using in digging flower borders, the size of the blade 
and proportionate smallness of the handle rendering them more adapted for using 
among the plants, &c. in the flower-garden. 
Figures 5 & 6 are two species of shovel, both useful in gathering up loose soil, 
&c., in the flower or kitchen-garden. The heart-shaped or pointed-mouthed one 
(fig. 5) is most frequently used for lifting earth out of trenches, &c. The square- 
mouthed one (fig. 6) is best adapted for the ordinary purposes in gardening. 
Figures 7 and 8 are two species of fork used chiefly for moving the earth where 
roots are very thick, or taking up roots ; such as potatoes, &c., or for stirring up the 
earth about the roots of fruit trees, or in the flower-borders where flowering bulbs, 
&c., are concealed under ground, also very useful where couch-grass, &c., prevail. 
The bottom part or prongs are made of wrought iron, and may be either made round 
or flat, both ways will be found useful for diff"erent purposes. The handles are 
made as before noticed for the spades. 
HIBISCUS ROSA SINENSIS. 
CHINESE ROSE HIBISCUS. 
They who know this charming plants and particularly they who possess it, or 
any of the varieties, must^ we conceive, congratulate themselves and acknowledge 
that it is almost, without exception, one of the most beautiful of nature's produc- 
tions. We meet with it but very rarely, and some consider that its delicate and 
tender foliage (so we have read, however) render it liable to be defaced by the 
" aphis." True it is that the shrub is subject to the green fly, Vv'hich seizes upon 
the extremities of the young shoots ; but we never saw a plant that with us sustained 
less injury from its assailants ; and these indeed are readily displaced by fumigating 
with tobacco, or by the application of a little Scotch snuff". 
