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\Shatiks* lawat' outter?! ‘whieh I importéd ° many” ‘years “sinice, “did” 
Wonders ifits day but’ ‘on Nineveri oy uriéqual ‘surfaces, it Was apt: to)! 
gouige the sodor occasional ¥y ‘to’skip over ‘dépressions:' ‘Green, i in his” 
new paterit; by the addition of three simple little wooden rollers in front * 
of ‘thé "beaters! (s0- called), resembling “in'’sizé and appéararice’ three ! 
blacking’ or beer jugs) has entirely remedied all this difficulty, by earry2”’ 
ing or lifting thé ‘cutter over any ‘prominent elevation; andalsé by pres 
venting! any aoe ee sige Se co ab a sudden’ start “i the : 
horse often catised. ° is 
As regards’ the Bene pai cies of the ene fe first place, itis" 
not every one who can use an’ English ‘lawn’ scythe, whereas the most 
inexperienced man or boy can use a machine. 
Secondly ; lawns must be cut with scythes early in the morning 
and late in the evening, whem ‘thedew is}on—inconvenient hours in 
this. country, when so much watering for houses and plants, is.requiredy 
at, those. ‘times _in. our, ornamental places. ‘The lawn eutter, onthe cons. 
trary, works better when, the dew ts o/f,.after nine or ten.o'clock, thus; 
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giving up to. the Livgie those early and late BeETs. 80, valuable in his : 
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; Thirdly,; after gr ass is cut) with, a seythe, ‘the sack tedious part. Ter, 
mawns—the, sweeping up, If raked, as is usual. in the United States; ; 
a large. portion, must. remain: behind, from coarseness; of , the rakes, 
leaving a dead and. decaying , Matter ; preventing, the full effect of the 1 
advantage of, the cutting. taxbe seen: for two.or, three. days, until-the dry... 
and. ‘woody, part of. the grass | eft. by. the scythe } is surmounted by, a new. 
growth $ for we must, remember, in cutting with a seythe; the greener 
and more succulent parts, are cut ‘off, leaving them cut, short, little more, 
than- stubble or woody stem, through which appears a matof old fibrous, 
deeaying matter, the result of previous ; cuttings ;, each successive .one., 
adding. its ¢ eontribution of chopped. hay—for it amounts to this. 
Fourthly ;, as a large ‘proportion, yof, the grass, which is, cut every; ' 
week ¢ or fortnight, manages, to, be got, up, itris. quite necessary ; to. make, 
some return to the soil by the addition of ashes or. other; manure. _ 
Now, by the proper employment of the machine, the OR, result 
is obtained :—A weekly mowing, with the weight of the roller, (some 
700 Ibs. in the horse size,) produces alow flat. growth of white clover, 
almost, apparently, without stems, and ‘with the leaves resting close _ 
anid flat on the’ground this° is” aid mhitist’ be, in ‘this country, the sub-" 
Stites forthe‘ English bottéim;whieh'is moss. Above and through’ this” 
layer ‘of ‘clover ‘cotiie ‘up’ 'the ‘slender and ‘delicate spears, one or two 
inelies “high; ‘of red’ top)—for after tryiig for inany years every kind of’ 
lawn grass,’ 1am “quite Satisfied nothing surpasses ‘our road-side sod’ of . 
whité clover! and’ ‘red ‘top,—the passing of the machine every four ‘to | 
eight days over the lawn, ‘either by man ‘or’ horse-power, ‘cuts off’ 
sifiply “the! speait of red top and ‘an’ occasional” stray stem’ or leaf of 
clover, which’ has’ ‘straggled’ beyond. (above) the cutting’ gauge, ‘about’ 
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into a box, and consequently none fall upon the lawn; and there isn” 
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