This implement, made of iron from twelve to six inches long in the plate, and half as broad, hollowed like a scoop, and fixed on a short handle to hold with one hand, is convenient in removing small plants, with a ball or lump of earth about their roots, lifting bulbous flower roots after the flowering is past in summer; planting bulbs in patches or little clumps about the borders, as also for digging small patches in the borders, for sowing hardy annual flower seeds ; likewise for filling mould into small pots, stirring the surface of the earth in pots, and fresh earthing them when necessary. And such a trowel is likewise very convenient for pointing over or stirring the ground between rows of small close-placed plants in beds or borders; are made between about twelve inches long in the plate, and six broad, narrowing gradually to the bottom, the other six or eight inches in the plate, and four inches broad, narrowing considerably towards the bottom, to introduce between small plants.