[TheForge] Spring projects? - A book on gardening tools

[Peter Hirst]

Bruce:

Thanks for this tip.  garden tools are becoming an important specialty for 
me.  (I beleie I am the only US producer of the Cape Cod Weeder, formerly 
produced by Snow & Neally, who got out of the garden tool business a few 
years back, and any and all info on these goodies is most welcome.  thanks

Keziah
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:37 AM
Subject: [TheForge] Spring projects? - A book on gardening tools


> For those of you with an interest in gardening (or customers of that
> persuasion), you may be interested in a book I've had for some time
> which is still available - used, if nothing else on Amazon.com.    The
> book is "Everyday Things - Garden Tools" by Slesin, Pellerin, Cliff &
> Rozensztroch, with a multitude of color photos by Touillon & Schwarz.
> Abbeville Press, NY, London, Paris1996, c..  ISBN 0-7892-0087-2
>
> This book is eye candy for those who like old fashioned wrought iron
> and steel tools.  It includes the usual long-handled digging tools:
> spades, spading forks, hoes, rakes &c., as well as the smaller tools:
> dibbles (aka dibbers), shears, trowels, reels, knives, saws, bilhooks,
> sickles, uzw.  Most of these are displayed in wonderful one- or
> two-page layouts from some collection, showing the range of
> variability.  (I think this was a French collection, but most of the
> tools are similar to those we know.)
>
> Although much of the book is of iron or steel implements, it is by no
> means restricted to such.  Brass and copper watering nozzles, wands
> and cans are also featured.  Plant spayers, cloches (bell-jars for
> covering seedlings) of glass or terra cotta, baskets, wooden measuring
> tools (line reels, enormous compases, terra cotta "flower" pots, etc.
>
> The book is laid out rather like a "coffee table book" - folio size
> and many color photos, but with so much practical information (if only
> in the photos) as to not quite fit that category.  A joy to read.
>
> -- 
> Bruce
> NJ
>
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