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TJie Country Gcntlcmaiis Magazine 



MCINTOSH'S lURF VERGE CUTTER. 



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Another very useful, and we may say 

 necessary implement is the edging knife 

 for paring the verges of lawns. Properly to 

 handle this implement required some little 

 skill. The verge cutter we are now about to 

 describe was invented more than fifty years 

 ago by Mr M'Intosh, and was first described 

 by Loudon in the "Gardeners' Magazine," vol. 

 i., page 139. Although so efficient an imple- 

 ment, it is very little known, but certainly 

 wherever it has been introduced it has com- 

 pletely superseded the old implement. 

 With this verge cutter a man may cut as 

 much in one day as he will cut in four or 

 five days with the one in general use. 

 Unless there be a long straight line to be 

 edged, a garden line is unnecessary, but 

 where one is used it may be placed between 

 the wheel and the coulter, or cutting part 

 of the implement. A certain degree of pres- 



sure is necessary on the handle when the 

 ground is hard ; and the kneed coulter (that 

 shewn to the right in the engraving) may be 

 employed when the edgings are not very 



M'Intosh's Verge Cutter. 



regular. When in use, the coulters should be 

 sharpened every morning, and several should 

 be taken out by the operator, in order that 

 the instant one loses its cutting edge, its 

 place may be supplied by another. 



