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 46
almost as cast-iron; and they must be more durable than any otherdescription of earthen manufacture, since they are to a great extent vitri-fied, and yet not only hard but tough. Our error in making the sketchesfor these tallies consisted in not giving them a beveled end; but this couldbe remedied… … be a near approach to perfection in that particular; but we think it oughtto be longer, perhaps 12 or 13 in. long, to keep the glass which covers thename from being dirtied by the splashing up of the earth during heavyrains. This tally, though not made of so durable a material as that ofMr, Peake,…
