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1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class IX.: William Patrick Padwick

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215. PADWICK, WILLIAM PATRICK, Manor House, Hayling Island, Hampshire — Inventor.

Hand-drill for depositing garden and other seeds; adapted for patching where seed has failed, for allotments or for rough uneven ground.

Improved planting line, for the purpose of obviating the necessity of setting the ordinary garden-line used in planting at the end of every row. By merely releasing a pin, it changes the position of the line to any required distance.

Improved dibbler, or transplanter, by which seeds may be dibbled or roots transplanted in the driest soil.

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