Excerpt from The Complete Farmer and Rural Economist: Containing a Compendious Epitome of the Most Important Branches of Agriculture and Rural Economy Budding 'and Pruning Knives. A great variety of budding and pruning knives are now used, of various fowls and shapes: some very superior ones. Fruit Shears. Those shears which are attached to a pole are for the purpose of taking of fruit from the extreme branches of trees or such parts as are not to be come at conveniently in any other Way. For this purpose they are found to be very convenient and useful; they are like wise used for takin off scions, &c. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.