The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 201
have hadoccasion to have cut and relaid a great quantity of turf, I haveinvariably found the old turf-racer totally inadequate, where thesurface was at all hilly or uneven. I was therefore led to con-trive the one shown in 7%. 28., which, I trust, will be found tocut alike well on every variety of… … upon, preventing its entering the ground, however soft the samemay be; whilst the same curvilinear form enables it to ride freely(as the workmen term it), requiring but comparatively little forceto drive it: secondly, two knives accompany this implement, ofdif-different lengths, which can be taken…
