Shanks Advertisement in Gardeners Chronicle

Patronised by Her Majesty QUEEN VICTORIA, His Majesty the EMPEROR of the FRENCH, and his Royal Highness the PRINCE of PRUSSIA.

SHANKS'S PATENT PATENT MOWING, ROLLING, COLLECTING, DELIVERING MACHINE FOR 1859.

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THE ONLY COMPLETE MACHINE FOR HORSE OR PONY POWER.

AMONGST other valuable improvements, A. SHANKS AND SON have this season made in their Patent

Horse and Pony Machines, as fully described in the Gardeners' Chronicle of March 5, page 207; particular attention is requested to the new Patent method of emptying the Grass Box, which consists in the introduction of a simple and efficient apparatus for emptying it, without the man being under the necessity of leaving the handles or stopping the machine. So effective and complete is the improvement that the Box, if it were possible to fill it, could be emptied at the rate of 60 times a minute, without any undue strain being put on the apparatus. The immense advantages of this invention must be at once apparent to the practical Gardener. It will enable the machine to do at least a third more work, while the labour and annoyance in working it, as compared with ordinary machines, is three-fourths lessened. If a Lawn which formerly took a machine nine hours to mow, can now be done in six hours, with three-fourths less labour to the man who works the machine, nothing further is necessary to establish the utility and worth of the invention.

Every conceivable convenience and improvement tending to make the Machine in every way complete for level as well as uneven Lawns, has been introduced at the sacrifice of much time and expense, and the Patentees have great pleasure in seeing their efforts so far successful as to enable them with all confidence to offer to the world the cheapest and the most complete: Mowing, Rolling, Collecting, and Delivering Machine extant.

PATENT HAND MACHINE for 1859. Most of the improvements of the Horse and Pony sizes have also been introduced into the new Hand Machine. Th Machines will mow on the most uneven Lawns without injury to the turf; they are strongly made, are fitted with the same

care and precision of the larger sizes, so simple in construction that a labourer can work them, and are quite free from all superfluous and useless gear, which has only novelty, not improvement, as a recommendation. These Ma chines are peculiarly well fitted for turning and cutting amongst Flower Beds, Verges, Bowling Greens, and for small Lawns. The Patent improvements for this sea- son render them complete in every part. The draught is greatly lessened, and the execution of the work is unsurpassed.

The Machines are warranted to give ample satisfaction; failing this (which is barely possible), they may be at once returned. FURTHER PARTICULARS MAY BE HAD ON APPLICATION.

ALEXANDER SHANKS & SON, Patentees and Sole Manufacturers, Dens Iron Works, Arbroath, Forfarshire.

N.B. To prevent disappointment in delivery early Orders are particularly requested.