EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIII. Fig. 1. A tool for cutting out the dead and decayed parts of hollow trees. It has two wooden handles which may be of any convenient length. J 2. Another tool with one handle for cutting out dead wood. This is made narrower than the former, and is to be used in places where Fig. 1. cannot be admitted. 3. A small saw with double teeth, thin on the back, for cutting off small branches, &c. D 4. A long knife with a concave edge. 5. A pruning knife with a convex edge. 6. A tool in shape of a curry-comb for scraping moss, &c. off the stems and branches of trees one of the scrapers has teeth; the other is plain. The back of this tool, and the edges of the scrapers, are a little concave. 7. 8. A large double-toothed saw for cutting off large branches. A tool resembling a hedge-bill for cutting branches, &c, 9. A small tool with only one sharp edge, to be used in places where Fig. II. cannot be admitted. 10. A knife, with two blunt edges, for scraping off rotten wood, &c. where the Composition is to be applied. 11. A large chisel with a strong plate of iron screwed upon the face of it, like a double iron for a plane, to prevent its running in too far where the tree is cross-grained. 12. A tool in form of a sickle, without teeth. This is to scrape stems and branches of trees on the side next the wall. N. B. The tools represented by Fig. 1, 2. 6. and 11., have handles of different lengths, to be used as occasion requires. Besides the above-mentioned tools, it will be necessary to have an adze, and chisels and gouges of different forms and sizes. Crooked chisels, like those used by carvers, will be found very useful in clearing small wounds from dead and rotten wood. INDEX. ACARUS, on Trees, how to destroy, 377. ALMONDS, different sorts of, 282. Propagation of, 283. How to prune, 283. How to preserve, 285. ANTS, how to destroy them, 398. APHIDES, described, 374. How to destroy, 375. APPLES, different sorts of, 92. What sort of trees to choose, 137. Heading of Dwarfs, 137. Heading down old Trees, 138. Hollow trees, how to be treated, 140. Trees that are very cankery, or have ill-formed Pruning of Apple-trees, 141. The advantage of heading down young trees Espaliers and Dwarfs, 144. Of borders and cross walks, 144. How to improve the soil, 145. Use of the Composition in grafting, 148. APRICOTS, different sorts of, 2. Proper Trees, preparing the borders, and planting, 6, 7. Heading and training, 7. Shortening the horizontal shoots, 7. Old and decayed trees, how to manage, 8. Topping young shoots, 9. Young shoots should be unnailed after the Pruning, 10. Objections to Autumnal pruning, 10. Covering of Apricots, 11. How to have early and late crops, 12. B BARBERRIES, different sorts of, 268. - Raising and pruning of, 269. BIRDS, to preserve fruit from them, 402. to 373. BOMBYX, how to destroy, 396. BUDDING, how performed, 318. Observations on budding, 325. Use of the Composition in budding, 326. C CANKER, the description and causes of it, 358. |