Frames are portable garden structures useful for large quantities of different subjects that have to be prepared for transplanting outside. Span frames have the advantage of giving more height inside.

Three-Quarter Span-Roof Frame

Frames are portable garden structures useful for large quantities of different subjects that have to…

Commonly found throughout Europe, the blue titmouse is known for destroying the buds of flowers, and is not well-liked by gardeners for this reason.

Blue Tit

Commonly found throughout Europe, the blue titmouse is known for destroying the buds of flowers, and…

A variety of tomato.

Lorillard Tomato

A variety of tomato.

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.

"One of the steel implements may be secured to a long handle; or the blade of a broken trowel may be utilized in the same way." — Baily, 1898

Long-handled trowel

"One of the steel implements may be secured to a long handle; or the blade of a broken trowel may be…

This plant belongs to the Liliaceae, native t Asia.

Garden Tulip

This plant belongs to the Liliaceae, native t Asia.

An implement used to beat down newly laid turf.

Turf Beater

An implement used to beat down newly laid turf.

Frames are portable garden structures useful for large quantities of different subjects that have to be prepared for transplanting outside. The most useful frames are six feet long by four feet wide.

Two-Light Frame

Frames are portable garden structures useful for large quantities of different subjects that have to…

Flower which is cultivated in a garden.

Garden Verbena

Flower which is cultivated in a garden.

Plant protector are used in northern areas where fruit trees such as apricots and peaches are destroyed by frost. The plant protector is made of glass and is put above the plant.

Wall-Fruit Plant Protector

Plant protector are used in northern areas where fruit trees such as apricots and peaches are destroyed…

A gardening tool used to assist in weeding.

Excelsior Weeder

A gardening tool used to assist in weeding.

The hand weeder works on the same principle as the hand cultivator, but on a smaller scale. It is best suited for working small plants in the home garden, or for use in the seed bed.

Hand Weeder

The hand weeder works on the same principle as the hand cultivator, but on a smaller scale. It is best…

A small agricultural tool used to carry heavy loads.

Wheelbarrow

A small agricultural tool used to carry heavy loads.

"Whip-grafting or tongue-grafting is the most usual mode of performing the operation. The stock is headed off by an oblique transverse cut as shown at a, a slice is then pared off the side as at b, and on the face of this a tongue or notch is made, the cut being in a downward direction; the scion c is pared off in a similar way by a single clean sharp cut, and this is notched or tongued in the opposite direction as the figure indicates, the two are then fitted together as shown at d, so that the inner bark of each may come in contact at least on one side, and then tied round with damp soft bast as at c; next some grafting clay is taken on the forefinger and pushed down on each side so as to fill out the space between the top of the stock and the graft, and a portion is also rubbed over the ligatures on the side where the graft is placed." — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893

Whip-Grafting

"Whip-grafting or tongue-grafting is the most usual mode of performing the operation. The stock is headed…

"A plant may be operated on wherever the stem has become firm and woody; the top will not fail to make a fine young specimen plant, which migt be removed in the course of abot twelve months, while other shoots would no doubt be obtained from the old stem, which, with its head thus removed, might be removed to quarters where steadying if the stem were loaded with a pot or box of soil, as at a in the figure." — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893

Yucca

"A plant may be operated on wherever the stem has become firm and woody; the top will not fail to make…