Graper picker tool

1768. The grape-gatherer (fig. 414.) is a pair of scissors, combining also tweezers or pincers attached to the end of a rod six or eight feet long, and worked by a cord. The bunch of grapes to be gathered from the roof of a lofty vinery, or the sprig of myrtle to be culled from the summit of a greenhouse stage, is not only clipped cleanly off the plant by the shears, but is held fast by those ports of them which act as pincers till it is brought down to the operator.