People at the cutting edge: lawnmower designers - Endnotes, sources and further reading

Endnotes

1) From an agreement of 18 May 1830, between Edwin Budding of Thrupp, machinist, and John Ferrabee, ‘of the same place', engineer (Baren).

2) Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine, October 1831, p.611.

3) Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine, February 1832, p.35.

4) Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine, February 1832, p.35.

5) Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine, October 1831, p.612.

6) Loudon, Mrs. Jane, The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849), p.197.

Sources

Baren, Maurice, How It All Began in the Garden (Smith Settle, 1994).

Drury, Elizabeth & Philippa Lewis, The Victorian Garden Album (Collins and Brown, 1993; Parkgate Books, 1996).

Fort, Tom, The Grass is Greener (Harper Collins, 2000.

Holmes, Caroline, New Shoots Old Tips. (Frances Lincoln Ltd. 2004).

Huxley, Anthony, An Illustrated History of Gardening (Paddington Press / RHS, 1978).

Loudon, J.C., ‘Machine for cutting Grass on Lawns and Grass-plots', The Gardener's Magazine, October, 1831, 611-612.

Loudon, J.C., ‘Budding's Machine for cropping or shearing the vegetable Surface of Lawns, Grass-plots, &c', The Gardener's Magazine, February 1832, 34-36.

Loudon, J.C., An Encyclopaedia of Gardening. (New Edition. Longman, Brown, Greens, & Roberts, 1859).

Loudon, Mrs. Jane, The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849).

Owen, Jane and Diarmuid Gavin, Gardens Through Time (BBC Books, 2004).

Senecki, Kay N., Old Garden Tools. (Shire Publications Ltd.,1979 ; second ed. 1987; reprint 1993).

Thompson, Robert, The Gardener's Assistant. (New Edition.Thomas Moore FLS. Blackie & Son Ltd., 1878).

Thompson, Robert. The Gardener's Assistant. (New Edition. William Watson F.R.H.S. The Gresham Publishing Company, 1900).                       

Further reading

Links to related web sites

British Lawnmower Museum

Garden Museum (formerly known as the Museum of Garden History) 

The Hall & Duck Trust 

Old Lawnmower Club 

Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Harlow Carr

Examples of early Budding-type mowers can be seen at:

Milton Keynes Museum

Museum in the Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire

Science Museum, London .