HERB - Garden tools

[RAISYA@aol.com]

For anyone who got my Carolingian Garden handout, just a couple of updates.

There was very little evidence of the tools available, but I've found that 
the Romans had forks, a primitive spade, sickles, a variety of hoes, a dibber 
and an odd tool called a falx.  The falx was the main tool for pruning, 
particularly in viniculture, throughout the medieval period.  Most of the 
tools show up in Roman tombs along the Rhine, and any of them may have been 
in use in the Carolingian garden.

Also, add the book, An Illustrated History of Gardening, Huxley, Anthony, New 
York:  The Lyons Press, 1998.  This is a well-researched book (reprint of a 
1978 book), but there is an annoying problem of omiting details about the 
illustrations, like dates and sources.  I think a used copy of the original 
might be better than this one, there is a suggestion that the original 
printing included color plates, which this one does not.

Raisya
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