Greens Advertisement in Gardeners Chronicle

BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.

Green's Patent Pony and Hand Grass-Cutting Machines. 

Date of Patent, August 2, 1856. No. 1831.

THOMAS GREEN

PATENTEE AND SOLE MANUFACTURER, LEEDS, YORKSHIRE.

T. G. respectfully Invites comparison and trial with any other, pony or hand Grass-cutting or Rolling Machine now in use. In the first place he has reduced the weight and friction one-third, consequently saving a large amount of labour, at the same time keeping the blades and cutters much stronger than usual, so that the Machines are not likely to get out of order. The patentee has put all the gearing inside the framework of the Machine, so that it can mow close to a wall, fence, or flower-bed without damaging the plants; it will mow verges any width, and close to the ends and corners of flower beds without change or alteration. in the machine. It will also mow undulated ground or hill sides, and can be drawn or pashed separately or together. It has greater facilities in quick turning than any other machine now in use, can be readily raised or lowered to cut the Grass any height required.

The Patentee has introduced a Rake or Guard to work in front of the cutters of the Machine, which can be set in a moment to any height required, and which is certain to remove any obstacle likely to break or injure the cutters, a great drawback in all previous Mowing Machines. It can be set to raise and straighten the Grass, which cannot be done at all by any other Machine or Scythe. T. G. calls particular attention to his small sized Machines, which will mow in intricate places where others will not, and also in parts where there is so much difficulty in cutting with the Scythe or Shears.

The Machines are made of the best material, are very superior in workmanship, and warranted to perform all that is said of them. Price Lists and Testimonials may be had on application to the Works; also Mr. Charles Garrood, Manager of the Agricultural Department, Crystal Palace, Sydenham, where the Machines may be seen, and every information obtained.

Testimonial from J. MAJOR, Esq., Landscape Garden, 

"Sir-When your improved Mowing Machine was first for my inspection some time ago, I thought no room was left for improvement except a contrivance for all the wheels to be made to work within the frame of the Machine so as to prevent the plants near the edges of the Grass from being caught and injured in the operation of mowing. This defect I am glad to find completely remedied in the Machine now sent for trial. It seems to possess all that is requisite, and the Rake you have just added appears to have given it the finishing stroke as it raises the Grass when too low, and frees it from all obstruction. It is a complete multum in parvo. It is at once neat, simple, and very efficacious in its operations, and my opinion is that your present Machine as far surpasses your former one, as the former did all previous inventions. I may further add that I think you have done an important thing in varying the sizes of the Machine according to its requirements. The smallest sizes are best adapted for town gardens, and for cutting amongst crowded flower beds and intricate places. The intermediate ones, say 15 or 18 inches, are most suitable for amateurs generally, and gardeners in single-handed places. Your adaptations of the Mower, to work either by pushing or drawing, is well adapted for intricate places; and drawing being the easiest mode of working the machine, is the most suitable for open or large expanses o lawn. It affords me great pleasure in again having to give testimony to so important and valuable an improvement, which I have no doubt the gardening world will fully appreciate. 

"I am, Sir, yours very respectfully,

"Mr. Green."

"JOSHUA MAJOR"