Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14943

    Gardening hand tools

    Date
    9 July 1664
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol27 p420
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 317mm
    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
    Related fellows
    John Beale (1608 - 1687, British) , Clergyman
    Associated place
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