1831-07-01 Gardeners Magazine

THE
GARDENER'S MAGAZINE,
VOL.VII.
1831.
By J. C. LOUDON, F.L.S. H.S. &c.

AUTHOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIAS OF GARDENING AND OF AGRICULTURE, AND EDITOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PLANTS.

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The Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park. - Nov. 1. These gardens have been greatly enlarged during the summer, and several handsome new structures erected. We have seen the mowing-machine tried; and, not-with- standing the wetness of the grass and roughness of the surface, it acted admirably well. It is clear to us that the same machine, on a large scale, would mow clover and rye-grass; and, on a still larger scale, cut corn. Whether it would equal Mr. Bell's, or one now constructing in the neighbourhood of Stirling, which we heard of when in Scotland, is a different thing.