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Collection, Preservation and Display of Old Lawn Mowers

Regents Park Trial Mentioned

Another mention of the trial held at Regents Park

Elsewhere in the same publication there are brief details of mowers for long grass, but these are presumably of the agricultural type.

  • 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.

    Page 691

    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.

    Publication
    Gardeners Magazine
    Date
    Source
    Biodiversity Library/The Gardener's Magazine 1831/P691