Gardening hand tools
Date
9 July 1664
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol27 p420
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 317mm
width (page): 189mm
width (page): 189mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Drawings in the text of a pruning hook, described by Columella, and of a weeding tool with a forked tip in John Beale's enumeration of useful gardening tools. These images (missing in LBO/27/429) must have been copied from the original letter, EL/B1/45/004.
Transcription
Columella takes special care to give us an accurate description of a pruning hook, not too much unlike (lib. 4. 25) {IMAGE} in our days we shall not much amend this instrument. But to draw Docks, thistles and tough weeds out of the pastures I have seen an instrument devised with a wide mouth, and by degrees narrower, which must be laid almost flat on the ground, and taking hold low, and neare the roote draws up the weed as it is lifted up {IMAGE} but it fails often and seldom succeeds, except tthe weed be tough, and ready to seed, and soon after good store of rain hath soft'ned the ground.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Related fellows
John Beale (1608 - 1687, British) , Clergyman
Associated place