1837 Gardeners Magazine

THE 
GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 
AND 
REGISTER 
OF 
RURAL AND DOMESTIC IMPROVEMENT: 
COMPRISING 
TREATISES ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING,
ARBORICULTURE, FLORICULTURE, HORTICULTURE,
AGRICULTURE, RURAL ARCHITECTURE,
GARDEN STRUCTURES,
PLANS OF GARDENS AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES,
SUBURBAN VILLAS, &c. 
 

ALSO

LISTS OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

CONDUCTED BY 
J. C. LOUDON, F.L.S. H.S. &c. 
AUTHOR OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIAS OF GARDENING, OF AGRICULTURE, &c. 
VOL. III.  
NEW SERIES.
LONDON: 
PRINTED FOR THE CONDUCTOR;
AND SOLD BY
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,
PATERNOSTER ROW AND A. AND C. BLACK, EDINBURGH. 
1837. 

General Notices 
Budding's Grass-cutter. — I mean to say a word on that very ingenious contrivance, Budding's grass-cutter, which I have used all through the summer, and still continue to use. The truth is, the use and value of this implement do not appear to me to be so well understood as they deserve to be. The general idea is, that, when a grass plot becomes rough with worm-casts, which it will do in the autumn, it is utterly hopeless to attempt to keep it in order; and so, I grant, it would be, were there nothing but the scythe to depend on for cutting it. But with Mr. Budding the case is widely different; for the wetter grass is, the better it seems to cut; and, as to the earth thrown up by the worms, it appears to put an edge on the knives, rather than injure them. I speak from experience; for I always work mine myself. I have added a scraper to the main or iron roller; and, when the knives get clogged with dirt, I take the machine to the pump, and, turning them briskly the contrary way, clean them better in half a minute, than, by scraping them, I could in half an hour. Of Mr. Budding I know nothing; and, therefore, all I have said or may say on this subject is perfectly disinterested. I believe that I shall be the means of selling him several machines here, and chiefly from the use I am seen to make of it in the winter months. My garden, as, I think, you are aware, abuts upon the turnpike road; and I am seen at work by every body passing. If there should be any point on which, in your opinion, Mr. Budding could give me information, so as to promote the sale of this very valuable invention, perhaps he would do it by letter. I had mine from Willett of Lynn. 
Samuel Taylor. Whittington, Stokeferry, Norfolk, Nov. 23. 1836.