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PART FOUR - Another Lucky Find

Luck has been on my side in identifying the Sydney Botanic Gardens ride-on.
A 2014 article published in Sydney's Daily Telegraph confirmed my opinion that the
machine was, indeed, a Greens mower.

The article detailed a photographic exhibition of rare photographs of the Gardens,
taken by amateur and professional photographers, that form part of that institution's
archive.

I found it amusing that one of the photos depicted cannabis plants that used to be
grown and displayed there; but the exciting find was the lawnmower photograph:-



The Article
It is well-worthwhile to have a read of that article HERE.

UPDATE 27/04/15
I contacted the Royal Sydney Botanic Gardens about this photograph.
They kindly supplied me with a larger, un-cropped image of the machine.
They also confirmed the date of the photo: 1911 (not 1900 as in the Telegraph article).

I attach a larger copy of the 1911 photograph below.