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Green, Southwark Street, London, S.E. A good 12-inch machine 

 for ordinary mowing. 



6. Mower, The ' Silens Messor,' fitted with special bottom blade, 

 from Messrs. Green, Southwark Street, London, S.E. The bottom 

 blade fitted to this 12-inch machine enables it to cut grass particularly 

 short, as would be required for bowling or putting greens. 



Highly Commended. 



7. Bulb Dibber from Messrs. Barr, 11 King Street, Covent Garden, 

 London, W.C. A useful implement for planting bulbs in borders. 

 It consists of a strong wooden T-shaped handle tipped with iron. 

 Two small iron projections are fitted to the upper part of the 

 iron tip so that the implement may be pushed into the ground with 

 the foot. 



8. Bulb Planter from Messrs. Barr, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 

 A capital implement for planting bulbs in grass. On being pressed 

 into the soil with the aid of the foot and withdrawn, it lifts a piece of 

 turf and several inches of soil, leaving a hole into which the bulb is 

 dropped. The soil and turf can then be replaced. 



9. Garden Hose Reels, ' Through Water-way,' from Messrs. 

 Headley & Edwards, Corn Exchange Street, Cambridge. These 

 were thought to be very good and practical. The user is able to water 

 with a part or all the hose on the reel or out at full length. 



10. Greenhouse, ' Board's Patent Wire Tension,' from Messrs. 

 Skinner, Board & Co., Rupert Works, Bristol. Of good design, 

 simple, practical, and economical. 



11. Lawn Cleaner, ' Pennsylvania,' from Messrs. Lloyd Lawrence, 

 29 Worship Street, London, E.C. A first-rate machine for cleaning 

 lawns of sticks, leaves, &c, whether lying thickly or thinly on the 

 ground. 



12. Motor Cultivator, large size, from Mr. C. W. Polito, 85 Grace- 

 church Street, London, E.C. A useful cultivator for large plantations, 

 propelled and worked by a 4 J-h.p. Bauche petrol engine, which consumes 

 half a gallon of spirit an hour. The machine is capable of travelling 

 about 3000 yards an hour, and is fitted with four 5-inch hoes, which 

 give an efficient tillage span of 3 feet 8 inches to a depth of 4 inches. 

 The frame is of hardened steel. 



13. Motor Roller from Messrs. Barford & Perkins, Peterborough. 

 A light motor roller, size A3, having a rolling width of 6 feet. The 

 motor is a petrol 2-cylinder ' Gardner ' with mechanically operated 

 valves and ' Bosch ' high tension magneto. The roller works well 

 backward or forward, and may be turned in its own length. Weight 

 when empty 1 ton 10 cwt., and when full 3 tons. It is fitted with power- 

 ful band brakes which operate on the hind spindle and are sufficient 

 to control the roller on the steepest road. The whole machine is well 

 sprung, and all the parts are numbered and easily accessible. The 

 consumption of the motor is half a gallon of petrol an hour. 



14. Slug Trap, V. T. H. Patent, from Mr. V. T. Hill, Mendip 



