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 48
serves, to employ the machine when the grass or vegetable surface isdry; and when high grass is to be cut, it is best to shear it twice over; forwhich purpose, there is a simple contrivance for raising, or lowering, andadjusting the cutting parts of the machine. Grass growing in the shade,and too… … chine as closely as required; and the eye will never be offended by thosecircular scars, inequalities, and bare places so commonly made by the bestmowers with the scythe, and which continue visible for several days. Country gentlemen, he adds, may find, in using my machine them-selves, an amusing,…
