A dictionary of modern gardening - University Library

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CUBIC MEASURE.
1728 Cubic Inches make . . .
27 " Feet
40 " " of Rough Timber
50 " " of Hewn do.
108 " "
128 " "
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1 Cubic Foot.
1 " Yard.
1 Load.
1 Stack of Wood.
1 Cord.
LONDON MARKET FRUIT A ND VEGETABLE MEASURES.
These being made either of osier or
deal shavings, vary triflingly in size
more than measures made of less flexible
materials. They are as follow :
Sea-Kale Punnets.—Eight inches diameter
at the top, and seven inches and
a half at the bottom and two inches
deep.
Radish Punnets.—Eight inches diameter,
and one inch deep, if to hold
six hands ; or nine inches by one inch
for twelve hands.
Mush7-oom Punnets.—Seven inches
by one inch.
Salading Punnets.—Five inches by
two inches.
Half-Sieve.—Contains three imperial
gallons and a half. It averages twelve
inches and a half diameter, and six inches
in depth.
Sieve.—Contains seven imperial gallons.
Diameter, fifteen inches ; depth,
eight inches.
Bushel-Sieve.—Ten imperial gallons
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English market-gardeners, and retailers
of fruit, potatoes, &c., generally
and a half. Diameter at top, seventeen
inches and three quarters ; depth,
eleven inches and a quarter.
Bushel-Basket—Ought, when heaped,
to contain an imperial bushel. Diameter
at bottom, ten inches ; at top,
fourteen inches and a half; depth, seventeen
inches. Walnuts, nuts, apples,
and potatoes are sold by this measure.
A bushel of the last-named, cleaned,
weighs 56 lbs., but 4 lbs. additional are
allowed if they are not washed.
A Pottle is a long tapering basket
that holds about a pint and a half.
Hand—Applies to a bunch of radishes,
which contains from twelve to
thirty, according to the season.
A Bundle contains six to twenty heads
of brocoli, celery, &c.; and in the case
of asparagus from 100 to 150.
A Bunch is applied to herbs, and varies
much in size according to the
season.
HEAPED MEASURES.
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7, that for potatoes, fruit, &c., the
bushel shall be made round, with a
vend their commodities as if the Act of plain and even bottom, and being nine-
Parliament, 5 and G Will. IV. c. 63, did teen inches and a half from outside
not exist. By this statute selling by to outside, and capable of containing
heaped measure is forbidden under a SOIbs. weight of water,
penalty of not more than 40s. for every Of Wood Fuel.—English Measure.—
such sale. Section 8 provides that, as
some articles heretofore sold by heaped
Wood-fuel is assized into shids, billets,
faggots, fall-wood, and cord-wood. A
; measure are incapable of being stricken, shid is of fall-wood and cord-wood.
and may not inconveniently be sold by A shid is to be four feet long, and,
weight, it is enacted, that all such arti- according as they are marked and
tides may henceforth be sold by a notched, their proportion must be in
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bushel-measure, corresponding in shape the girth: viz., if they have but one
with the bushel prescribed by the 5 notch they must be sixteen inches in
Geo. IV. c. 74, for the sale of heaped the girth ; if two notches, twenty-three
measure, or by any multiple or ali(juot inches; if three notches, twenty-eight
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part thereof, filled in all parts as nearly inches ; if four notches, thirty-three
to the level of the brim as the size and inches ; and if five notches, thirty-eight
shape of the articles will admit; but inches about.
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nothing herein shall prevent the sale by Billets are to be three feet long, of
weight of any article heretofore sold by which there should be three sorts;
heaped measure. The 5 Geo. IV. c. namely, a single cask, and a cask of
74, thus referred to, enacts, by section ! two.
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The first is seven inches; the se-