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 176
. 2. is 8| in.; No. 3. is 6 in.; No. 4. is 4 in.; and No. 5., for pots, is 2 J in.The cost of the largest size is, we believe, about 16,?. per gross; that of No. 2.125.; of No. 3. 85.; and of No. 5. 45. It will be observed from the engraving,that the numbers are impressed on the beveled surface of… … England. 165 notwithstanding the circumstance that not more than three figures, or 999,can be got in the width of the top of any one tally. The number 999, however,repeated as often as there are letters in the alphabet, would give upwards of25,000, which is as many species as are to be found in the…
