1857-06-03 Gardeners Chronicle - Report of Chiswick Lawnmower Trials

Page 422     THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE.     JUNE 13, 1857.

2, Mr. Hill, gr. to R. Sneyd, Esq.; 3, Mr. Fleming, gr. pegs, and every requisite) is packed into a valise few have any doubt; from the nature of its construction to the Duke of Norfolk. On this your comment is:- 45 inches long by 15 inches in diameter, weighing tion it is obvious that it exposes a very large amount of "Mr. Hill showed Royal George Peaches and Violette 90 lbs. The two porches, and the very complete ventilated heating surface to the action of the fire. Along with native Nectarines; Mr. Busby had some well ripened lation, are great improvements, while the ease and it were various improvements in the way of fixing Nectarines; and Mr. Constantine Royal George Peaches." rapidity with which the tent can be erected (one man and arranging hot-water pipes, together with a stack At the Chiswick Show the prizes for Peaches were being sufficient), and the resistance it offers both to of the same, and an ornamental case for covering them 1, Mr. Hill, gr. to R. Sneyd, Esq.; 2, Mr. Constantine, wind and rain, render it invaluable in windy places, where snel is desirable. Another boiler whose merits. gr. to C. Mills, Esq.; 3, Mr. Fleming, gr. to the Duke especially since it can be pegged down before the pole are already acknowledged is Thomson's retort. Two of Sutherland. Your comment is:-"Of Peaches, Mr. is erected. In all respects this was one of the most in- specimens of this were exhibited by Mers. Hill and Mr. Fleming had both excellent examples of teresting parts of the Exhibition. The tents were so Shanks, of Arbroath. The triple retort has Royal George; the same variety was also furnished placed as to add very much to the beauty of the scene. three openings through it some 10 inches diameter, by Mr. Constantine." Nobody would suppose from Other tents came from Messrs. Cullingford, Richard- exposing a large surface to the fire; in proportion to this that my gardener was first at the Crystal Palace son, & Roof; and Messrs. Weeks exhibited their goods this surface it contains a very small quantity of water, and second at Chiswick. It is a matter of very small under a large framed marquee, braced with strong thereby causing circulation to begin almost immediately importance, but no favour should be shown. Charles wire diagonals; a method of fixing such structures upon the application of beat. Every part of the boiler Mills, Hillingdon Court, Uxbridge. Our reporter's which seemed to be very effectual. It, however, wanted admits it is said of being swept clear of soot in remarks were not intended to describe the result of the the picturesque appearance which renders ordinary about a minute, the advantage of which must be competition, which is seen from the official prize lists, tents so great an ornament among trees. obvious. A perforated pipe may also be fixed to it so but his own opinion respecting the fruit as exhibited. 

MOWING MACHINES of various sizes were exhibited as to throw jets of air into the flame at that point where At the time when his report was written he had had no by Dray and Co., Shanks of Arbroath, Burgess and it begins to return through the boiler, which tends to means of knowing what the award of the judges could Key, Samuelson, Warner and Sons, Cottam, Ferrabee, more perfect combustion, and in a great degree to the be.] and Green, of Leeds. As we mentioned last week an consumption of smoke. Wherever they have been tried Variegated Jasmines.-Observing the notice in your attempt was made to ascertain their relative merits by these boilers have been reported to have given perfect last Number respecting the variegation imparted to the actual trial. The state of the Grass to be mowed, want satisfaction, not only as regards their simplicity and green Jasminum officinale by budding it with the of space, absence of skilled workmen, and other circum- economy in attendance and fuel, but also as respects the variegated kind, I beg to say that I have several plants stances rendered the trial difficult and inconclusive, so large amount of heating power which they possess. which have been so worked for many years, and still that the following description of what passed must not Like the last named boiler, but still different from it, retain the variegation; and conceiving that such variega- be taken as a criterion of excellence. It was agreed was one from Mr. Munro, gr. to Mrs. Oddie; this is tion transferred to the fine foliage of J. revolutum that the trial should be confined to 16-inch hand horizontal and made of wrought iron with tubular sup would be desirable, I operated upon several plants machines; Ferrabee, Green, Samuelson, and Shanks ports and pedestals, said to combine in one and the two successive seasons, but not one of the buds alone entered into competition; other exhibitors, having same boiler the advantages of the cylindrical, tubular, made progress, though one or two remained apparently had no notice of the trial, were absent. The following and saddleback. From Messrs. Hood, of Earl Street, plump for a time. I therefore gave up the experiment are the prices of the machines employed, and their Blackfriars, came a wrought iron arched boiler with as hopeless, thinking the affinity not sufficiently near; measurements, from the end of the cutting knives to furnace fittings. These can be made of all sizes, but was gratified the following season by the appearance the ontside of the gear. Ferrabee, 5. 10., distance to from 18 inches to 12 feet long, so as to heat of golden blotches upon the leaves of two of the plants outside, 31 and 3 inches; Green, 6. 6s, distance to from 50 to 5000 feet of pipe, also cast-iron conical so findded, and which extended along the young shoots, outside, 2 and 3 inches; Samuelson, 54, 10s., distance boilers with furnace fittings. One of the latter yet I fear (as usual) the variegation is at the expense of to entside, 6 and 63 inches; Shanks, 64