Roman Garden Tools

82.The garden implements of the Romans, were the ligo, or pala, answering to our spade; the rastrum, a rake; the sarculum, a hoe or weeding hook; the marra, a hoe mattock; the dolabra, an adze, apparently the binette of the French; the securis, an axe; and the falx, a kind of pruning-knife; the latter was sometimes made in the shape of the half-formed moon, hence falx semiformis lunï¾µ. (Col., lib. ii. cap. 2.; lib. iv. cap. 25.)