1852-04-01 The Horticulturalist - Shanks

MOWING MACHINES.-Dear Sir: I seldom see anything used but the scythe, in mowing lawns in this country. Now garden labour of all kinds is so dear here, that the mowing machines used in Great Britain, (which I noticed you spoke highly of in your letters from England,) would be particularly valuable in this country-both as saving labour and expense, and I may add, doing the work far more neatly than most of the ordinary mowers and gardeners. I have not used the lawn mowing machine in this country, though I have abroad, and I believe the American mowing machine is only adapted to the hay-field-quite a different thing from lawn mowing-which must be done like cutting vel. vet. I send you a cut and description of one of the English mowing machines, in the form of an advertisement, which very fairly describes the instrument, and may introduce it to some of your readers who will be benefitted by the information. Your obedient servant, A MONTREAL SUBSCRIBER. March 10, 1852.

Shank's Improved Grass Cutting and Rolling Machines.-The complete success which has attended the introduction of this machine for mowing grass, and its fine adaptation for cutting the grass of lawns, has been fully proved by the numerous instances where it has been tried, and now in common use, particularly at Rossie Priory, Camperdown, and Kinblethmont, Forfarshire; Breadalbane, Perthshire Clumber, and at many other nobleman and gentle. man's, seats in England, as well as abroad. The machines are made to cut breadths of 42, 30 or 20 inches, as required, the latter being adapted to hand power. The machine performs three different operations at one time, viz: rolling, mowing, and collecting the grass; and works with perfect ease, producing a beautiful smooth surface, and attended with great saving in abridging labour.

Orders may be addressed to Messrs. Alexander Shanks & Son, Machine Makers, Arbroath, N. B., by whom further particulars will be given.

Sold by Messrs. J. & F. Dickson, Nursery. men, Chester; Messrs. J. & C. Lee, Nurserymen, Hammersmith; and Mr. George Barry, Nurseryman, Castle-street, Liverpool.