pruner
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Corona Tools, a Corona, Calif., business for nearly 100 years, introduced its pocket pruner last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024
Use a sharp knife, snips or bypass pruner to cut 3- to 6-inch-long pieces from firm, mature, non-woody stems.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
Newhouse maneuvered an extendable pole pruner around a branch; with a pull of a string, the blade snapped shut, and the bag fell.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
"He was nice but he was depressed," said Eugene Hernandez, a tree pruner staying at the shelter.
From Reuters ● Mar. 23, 2015
A good tree pruner has to be a bit of an architect.
From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Walter Prichard Eaton
To harvest, wait until after the first light frost, which will sweeten their flavor, then pull hips off the plant or clip them using scissors or pruners.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
But, by all means, keep a pair of sharp scissors or pruners handy and trim back as needed at the end of summer or anytime a bare or tired, unproductive branch develops.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
Sometimes a branch just has to be sawed because it’s too thick for hand pruners or even loppers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
Use a clean pair of pruners to cut about a quarter-inch below the node at a 45-degree angle.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2022
Everybody came out—hay farmers, clerks, merchants, fishermen, crabbers, carpenters, loggers, net weavers, truck farmers, junk dealers, real estate brigands, hack poets, ministers, lawyers, sailors, squatters, millwrights, cedar rats, teamsters, plumbers, mushroom foragers, and holly pruners.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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