1861-02-23 Gardeners Chronicle - Shanks Advertisement

THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE.           FEBRUARY 23, 1861.               P180

SHANKS' NEW PATENT LAWN MOWING, ROLLING, COLLECTING, AND DELIVERING MACHINE FOR 1861,

HORSE-POWER MACHINE.

J. B. BROWN & CO. have much pleasure in intimating, that the important Improvements introduced into the Shanks' Patent Lawn Mower last season, have undergone a thorough practical test, and satisfied the most sanguine expectations. The Machine gained the only First Class Medal offered last season, and the highest recommendations wherever exhibited. The Improvements having far more of real worth, than mere novelty, have been so much appreciated by the practical Gardener, that the Machines sold last season were again more than double the number of any previous season; every one of which, so far as known, gave the greatest satisfaction. Still further improvements have been introduced into the Machine this season, the effect of which will establish beyond doubt the high character it has already gained as the most complete, the cheapest, and most durable Lawn Mowing Machine extant.

The Patentees are fully aware that one of the most important considerations in making a Machine fit to be put into the hand of a labourer, to work without any difficulty, is simplicity of construction and arrangement, combined with strength and durability of the whole working parts, and they have much pleasure in intimating that their efforts to attain this end have been completely successful. Their Improved Machines for Horse and Pony power, combining with these advantages the additional one of Delivering the Grass without stopping the Machine, make it peculiarly fit for all the purposes of Mowing, whether for Grass Walks, the Flower Garden, or the open Lawn. The style, in which the work is executed cannot be surpassed-being very much neater than the scythe, while at half the expense-and it is quite immaterial whether the Lawn be level or otherwise, or whether the Grass be wet or dry.

PRICES.  SHANKS NEW PATENT HORSE MACHINE.   Including Box of Tools for Sharpening. &c., and Directions.

SHANKS PATENT PONY AND DONKEY MACHINE. Including Box of Tools for Sharpening, &c., and Directions.

No. 5.-30-inch Machine. £15 15 Drawn by a Pony | No. 6.-28-inch Machine. £14 10 Drawn by a Pony | No. 7.-25-inch Machine, £12 10 Drawn by a Donkey  Boots for Pony. 21s; Donkey, 16s. per set.

Particular notice is requested to the above Machines. In addition to the operations of Mowing, Rolling, and Collecting, they possess the additional one of Delivering the Grass without stopping the Machine, which no other Lawn Mower has.

In introducing new improvements also into the Hand Machines for this season, the Patentees have been careful to exclude everything which has only Novelty, not Improvement, as its recommendation; and they are glad to find, from the ease with which the Machine can be worked, and the superior style in which the work is executed, that their New Machine is now as nearly perfect as is possible for any Lawn Mower to be for practical use.

SHANKS' NEW PATENT HAND MACHINES, FOR PUSHING OR DRAWING SEPARATELY OR TOGETHER. Including Box of Tools for Sharpening, &c., and Directions.

                           The Patent Delivering Apparatus if attached, to the Hand Machines, 20s. extra

 SHANKS NEW PATENT SMALL HAND MACHINE FOR 1861.

The Patentees, at the request of many of their friends, have this year brought out a Small Lawn Mower, specially intended to be used by Ladies or Gentlemen for amusement in the Flower Garden, and for Small Gardens, where no regular gardener is kept. This elegant and neat Machine is very cheap, very light, and very easily worked. It embraces, as far as practicable, the Improvements of the larger-sized Machines, and, like them, is no toy, but in all respects A FIRM LITTLE THING, ever ready to do its duty to the entire satisfaction of the most fastidious.

Price, including Box of Tools for Sharpening, &c., and Directions.

The Machines are warranted to give ample satisfaction, and if not approved of may be at once returned.

The Prices include delivery at most of the Railway Stations throughout the Kingdom.

Shanks' Mowing and Rolling Machine is in successful operation in Her Majesty's Gardens at Kew, Windsor, Buckingham Palace, Hampton Court, Osborne, and Balmoral; in the Gardens of the Emperor of the French; in the Grounds of his Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia; in many other places throughout the Continent, as well as in the United States, British America, India, Australia, and other parts abroad. It is also used in most of the Gardens of the principal Nobility and chief Landed Proprietors in the Kingdom; and it may be seen constantly at work on the Lawns of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham,-where its merits have been fully proved, and its success established.

TESTIMONIALS.

From MR. GEORGE EYLES, late Chief Superintendent of the Grounds and entire Horticultural Department of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, and now Superintendent of the Royal Horticultural Society's New Gardens, Kensington Gore, and the Gardens, Chiswick, in favour of SHANKS' Patent Lawn Mower-(the 30-inch Horse- power Machine used on the Lawns of the Crystal Palace):-

"I have much pleasure in bearing testimony to the excellence of the 30-inch Shanks' Patent Lawn Mowing Machine you sent us. We have had it in use almost daily up to the end of the mowing season, and it has always performed its work in a most satisfactory manner, and has never been once out of repair. The contrivance for emptying the Grass Box is a great acquisition, and effects a considerable saving of time." From Sir JOHN BURGOYNE, Bart., Sutton Park, St. Neots.

"The Lawn Mower (a No. 9, 22-inch Hand Machine, with Patent Delivering Apparatus) has arrived quite safe and answers admirably, and mows better and in less time than it is possible for two men to do."

SOLE AGENTS FOR LONDON      J. B. BROWN & CO., 18, CANNON STREET, CITY, LONDON, E.C.