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TJic Country Gentleman' s Maoazine 



of being altered so as to do all the Ar- 

 chimedean professes to do. This is effected by 

 removing the front rollers, and leaving a 2-inch 

 roller on each side, occupying the place of 

 the Archimedean slide, while the back cover 

 of the cutters, which throws the cut grass 

 forward, is also removed in a very simple 

 and efficient manner. When these altera- 

 tions are made, long or wet grass^ or both 

 combined, are readily cut and distributed, 

 exactly as they are by the American machine, 

 to which fact it is assimilated in principle al- 

 most precisely. Whether working in tliis 

 condition, or with the front rollers and box 

 on, the labour necessary for mowing was very 

 small, perhaps even less than that demanded 

 for the Archimedean in its best condition. 

 Of course the machine was produced in per- 

 fect order ; but, allowing for this, it certainly 

 is a triumph of arc, and perfectly fulfils all 

 the requirements of the All- England Croquet 

 Club, several of whose influential members 

 examined it, and highly approved of it. 



Next as to time. Mr Green shewed that 

 a single ground could be cut and the grass 

 picked up within the time (one hour) usuall}' 

 occupied by the gardener in mowing and dis- 

 tributing the grass with the Archimedean. 

 Accordingly, he set one of his men to work, 

 who, as might be expected, went at it faster 



than a gardener who had a day's work before 

 him would do, and cut it in thirty-five 

 minutes. Everything was in his favour, for 

 the cut was short and dry ; but still the per- 

 formance was an excellent one, and left no 

 doubt in our mind that the machine, in its 

 ordinary working condition, will cut and col- 

 lect as fast as, or faster than, the Archime- 

 dean cutter, each being worked by the same 

 man ; and, deducting the time necessary for 

 emptying the box, which with a heavy cut 

 is considerable. Vv'hile, therefore, we have 

 hitherto contended that Mr Green's machine 

 has been beaten by the Archimedean for 

 large croquet lawns, in point of rapidity of 

 work and power of cutting long and wet 

 grass, the result of this trial shews that 

 the improved machine exhibited lately at 

 Wimbledon has all the advantages of the 

 Archimedean without its drawbacks. In 

 point of quality of work, two of the grounds 

 which had that morning been cut by the 

 gardener with the Archimedean were ad- 

 mitted by all present to be as well mown as 

 that cut by the Green's machine. 



We have carefully tried the two machines 

 on the grass immediately after rain, and find 

 that the Archimedean had slightly the best of 

 it, both in point of labour and .quality of 

 work done. The difference is very trifling. 



