Pruning shears, also called hand pruners in American English or secateurs in British English, are a type of scissors used on plants, strong enough to prune hard branches of trees and shrubs sometimes up to two centimetres thick. They are used in gardening, arboriculture, plant nursery work, farming, flower arranging and nature conservation, and are typically manually powered, though electric versions exist; loppers are a larger, two-handed, long-handled version built for branches too thick for pruning shears to cut.
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Introduced When (Circa)Dedicated garden secateurs date to the early 1800s; French aristocrat Antoine-Francois Bertrand de Molleville is credited as inventor in a work published in 1813. 1 OriginThe world's first anvil-blade pruners were developed and produced in 1923 by Walther Schroder in Kiel, Germany, marketed as Original LOWE and distributed internationally from 1925. 1 Introduced era (class) In the Other Atlases
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1. Pruning Shears (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHistory section, paragraph 2
In modern Europe, scissors only used for gardening work have existed since the early 1800s, when the French aristocrat Antoine-François Bertrand de Molleville was listed as the inventor of the secateurs
History section, paragraph 3
The world's first anvil pruners were developed and produced in 1923 by Walther Schröder in Kiel, Germany.
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