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The Home Gardening Implements ClipArt gallery includes 34 examples of hand tools such as hoes, rakes, shovels, pruning shears, and watering cans.

Portable liquid containers, featuring handles and spout to easily water plants by hand.

Watering Cans

Portable liquid containers, featuring handles and spout to easily water plants by hand.

"The spade is commonly used for digging and trenching, but much of this work is now better done by means of Parkes's diggging-fork, which is both handier and lighter, and breaks up the ground better than the spade." — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893

Digging-Fork

"The spade is commonly used for digging and trenching, but much of this work is now better done by means…

A drag hoe or pitchfork is a similar design to the draw hoe and fork combined.

Drag Hoe or Pitchfork

A drag hoe or pitchfork is a similar design to the draw hoe and fork combined.

This type of fork has four flattened prongs. It is ideal for ordinary kitchen garden work, such as lifting potatoes.

Flat-Tined Digging Fork

This type of fork has four flattened prongs. It is ideal for ordinary kitchen garden work, such as lifting…

"A new instrument for clipping hedges, Ridgeway's hedge-cutter, does its work quickly and well; and the same can be said for Adie's new lawn-edging machine." — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893

Hedge-Cutter

"A new instrument for clipping hedges, Ridgeway's hedge-cutter, does its work quickly and well; and…

An instrument for cutting up weeds and lossening the earth.

Hoe

An instrument for cutting up weeds and lossening the earth.

Some tools that are commonly used in gardening.

Set of Garden Implements

Some tools that are commonly used in gardening.

A knife used for pruning plants.

Pruning Knife

A knife used for pruning plants.

This lawn mower called the cylinder in many countries, features a fixed horizontal cutting blade at the desired height of cut. Over this is a fast spinning reel of blades which force the grass past the cutting bar. Each blade in the reel forms a helix around the reel axis, and the set of spinning blades describes a cylinder.

Early Design Lawn Mower

This lawn mower called the cylinder in many countries, features a fixed horizontal cutting blade at…

Rotary lawn mowers were not developed until there were small enough and powerful enough to run the blades at high speed.

Rotary Lawn Mower

Rotary lawn mowers were not developed until there were small enough and powerful enough to run the blades…

A machine with a rotating blade for cutting grass.

Lawn Mower

A machine with a rotating blade for cutting grass.

A McGowen nozzle

Nozzle

A McGowen nozzle

Cyclone and Vermorel nozzles

Nozzles

Cyclone and Vermorel nozzles

This modern pipe-spout pot is a watering pot that is made out of sheet metal.

Modern Pipe-Spout Pot

This modern pipe-spout pot is a watering pot that is made out of sheet metal.

This modern pipe-spout pot is a watering pot that is made out of sheet metal.

Modern Pipe-Spout Pot

This modern pipe-spout pot is a watering pot that is made out of sheet metal.

This modern pipe-spout pot is a watering pot that is made out of sheet metal.

Modern Pipe-Spout Pot

This modern pipe-spout pot is a watering pot that is made out of sheet metal.

A tool used to assist in watering plants.

Watering Pot

A tool used to assist in watering plants.

The florist and gardener use scissors with a curved blade for pruning, and a delicate pair for gathering flowers, and large shears, called pruning shears, for trimming hedge plants.

Pruning Shears

The florist and gardener use scissors with a curved blade for pruning, and a delicate pair for gathering…

An instrument for collecting hay or other light things which are spread over a large surface.

Rake

An instrument for collecting hay or other light things which are spread over a large surface.

A pair of pruning shears used for larger plants.

Pruning Shears

A pair of pruning shears used for larger plants.

A gardening tool used for lifting and moving loose material.

Shovel

A gardening tool used for lifting and moving loose material.

A gardening tool used for digging or removing earth.

Spade

A gardening tool used for digging or removing earth.

"A tool for digging and cutting the ground, having a rather thick iron blade, usually flat, so formed that its terminal edge (either straight or curved) may be pressed into the ground or other resisting substance with one foot, and a handle, usually with a crosspiece at the top, to be grasped by both hands... a, Irish spade with foot-piece; b, Greek spade with foot-piece; c, Japanese spade; d, spade for cutting turf; e, ditching spades; f, post-spade for digging post-holes; g, polished drain-spade with foot-piece; h, long-handled garden spade; i, ditching-spade." —Whitney, 1889

Spades - a Collection of Various Types

"A tool for digging and cutting the ground, having a rather thick iron blade, usually flat, so formed…

An elastic plant sprinkler, which is useful for washing dust off plants.

Elastic Plant Sprinkler

An elastic plant sprinkler, which is useful for washing dust off plants.

In the swan necked draw hoe the handle is inserted in a socket which is connected with the blade by a curved, solid neck. The blade should be made of steel plates, welded on iron necks.

Swan Necked Draw Hoe

In the swan necked draw hoe the handle is inserted in a socket which is connected with the blade by…

"This can be opened more or less, thus making it broader, or closed, making it more upright and narrow. It is much handsomer and more desirable than the ordinary stationary ones."—Heinrich, 1887

Adjustable Pot Trellis

"This can be opened more or less, thus making it broader, or closed, making it more upright and narrow.…

"An expanding ivy trellis, which can be used as an upright trellis or in the form of an arch over a door or window."—Heinrich, 1887

Expanding Ivy Trellis

"An expanding ivy trellis, which can be used as an upright trellis or in the form of an arch over a…

A gardening tool used for digging, smoothing, and otherwise moving around small amounts of soil or dirt.

Trowel

A gardening tool used for digging, smoothing, and otherwise moving around small amounts of soil or dirt.

Trowel.

Trowel

Trowel.

An implement used to beat down newly laid turf.

Turf Beater

An implement used to beat down newly laid turf.

A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth in bleaching, or on plants.

Water-pot

A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth in bleaching, or on plants.

Watering can.

Watering can

Watering can.

An illustration of a watering can.

Watering Can

An illustration of a watering can.

A gardening tool used to assist in weeding.

Excelsior Weeder

A gardening tool used to assist in weeding.