Turf Tools are the Racer or Rut-ter, for cutting the edges of turf after it has been laid, and for cutting the outlines of the turves when first obtained. It is a thin sharp edged implement, somewhat resembling a cheese-cutter, fixed to a handle about four feet long.

Fig. 173.

The Turfing Iron is for raising or peeling off the turves from the soil. It has an arrow-headed fiat blade, with an angular handle, thus: -

Fig. 174.

A Turf or Daisy Rake consists of a piece of thin plate iron, cut into teeth, with two slips of ash, or other tough wood, between which it is firmly riveted to form a back, and keep it from bending. When put together, the back is an inch and a quarter thick. The wood is beveled to nothing, half an inch above the interstices of the teeth, at which point the iron is slightly bent longitudinally to admit the thickness of wood underneath, and give a proper inclination to the handle. The instrument serves both as a grass rake and a daisy rake, and has the advantage over the daisy rakes in common use, of being easier cleaned, from the wideness of the interstices between the teeth. - Gard. Mag.

Fig. 175.