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 58
one for the purpose proposed, and it certainlymerits the attention of those who study the exquisite, or what the Ger-mans call the aesthetik, in floriculture. The French have a transplanter,calculated to effect the same object; but not with such nicety, becauseit wants the spring. Our readers will… … quite a cheap one, and is much used by the Lancashire tulip-growers. Itconsists of a few uprights and rafters, and a piece of canvass which is fixed ata, and extends to b b. A strong roller (c) is fixed to the edge of the can-vass ; a cord is fixed to the roof, under the canvass, and brought round…