Gardening can be a real pleasure activity for many of us. It is a great experience to see the seeds that you sow becoming small plants and the plants becoming trees. If you are living in one of the modern age cities, then finding a place to grow plants has become the most difficult proposition. The cities of the world are turning into concrete jungles to accommodate the ever increasing population. Hence, the gardens in the cities are limited to bonsai plants and decorative plats that grow in pots.

Gardening can be a fun-filled activity in which you can involve all the members of your family and teach, especially the small kids, the basics of earth’s eco-system. In this way you can easily maintain an exclusive home garden in your backyard with the cooperation of your family members. And garden can become a play area for your kids with fresh air and natural surroundings away from the hustle and bustle of the city traffic horns and pollution.

In early 1800s, portable engines were first farm engines that were powered. These were steam engines using wheels that helped in driving mechanical farm machinery using a flexible belt. From these, the first traction engines developed around 1850. They were readily adopted for use in agriculture.

This word “tractor” is an agent noun of a Latin word trahere which literally means “to pull”. It was 1901 that the use of term “tractor” as used and it replaced the term that was used until then: traction engine (1859).

In Germany, Spain, Ireland, Argentina, Australia, India and Britain, tractor implies farm tractor, generally speaking. However, in Canada and US, it may additionally refer to the tractor’s trailer.

The origin of the name tractor is Latin. It is the agent noun for trahere which means “to pull”. Its use was firstly recorded in 1901 as “a vehicle or engine used for pulling ploughs or wagons”. It displaced the term used earlier called “traction engine” (1859). In Australia, Argentina, India, Ireland, Britain, Germany and Spain, the word or name “tractor” is a term that implies “farm tractor”.