Perhaps I may serve the nursery craft and others by describing a home-made one-horse digger, which has proved a very serviceable tool for my purposes. Taking a worn-out side-hill plough, the swinging mould board and some other appurtenances were removed, leaving but the thin iron frame under the beam. This frame was left to support a steel sword, or cutter, which was made to be about two feet long, and which went from the beam in front of the frame and extended eighteen inches below it. Any blacksmith can affix such a sword to such a plough at a cost of a dollar or two. One horse is equal to making a cut in ordinary soil from 15 to 20 inches deep. After a cut on both sides of a row, most kinds of small trees and shrubs will readily pull without breaking the roots. In some cases it is well to go a second time in the cut, driving the cutter down to its length and inclining the point under the trees. The advantage of this tool over the larger and patented kinds is in its trifling cost, and also in the ease with which it is operated by a single horse in any soil. Of course the large double machine is much better for large trees and extensive nurseries.

But for many kinds of digging this smaller cutter will serve the purpose equally well and at less expense in operating.

Brighton, July 30th.