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Smith & Hawken's (a great gardening retail­

er) latest catalog today, I marveled at the

variety of pruning tools they sell. They offer

small and large hand pruners, left-and right-handed. They sell ratchet pruners,

pole pruners and pruning knives. And for those times when pruners of any ilk

won't do, they also sell an assortment of loppers and shears.