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ii. Oi; tlic use of the scoria of tiie Forge in Horticulture. 

 IVom the French of 31. Tliouin. By Mr. J. TURNER. 



iii. On llift native country of tlie Apricot. From the 

 Freuch of M. Re-nier. By R. A. SALISBURY, Esq. 



WILLIAM COBBETT, the well known, inconsistent, 

 political writer, is the son of a faraier who resided near Farn- 

 hani. Cobbett was born there in 1776; he obtained em[^!oy- 

 inent in 1783 in a London Attorney's Office; but the following 

 year enl'sted, and went with his resimeat to America, and was 

 ultimately made a Serjeant In 1792 he went to France, but 

 proceeded tlience, in the same year, back to America, where 

 Le continued employing- himself in writing until 1801 when he 

 came home to England. He ag-ain returned to America in 

 18 IG, but came back to his native country in 1820, and resides 

 at Kewsinglon, where he cultivates a lai-ge Garden, and stre- 

 nuously vecomniends the growth of the American Locust Tree, 

 Indian Corn, Olc. Of his chameleon political works we have 

 nothing to remark, but he requires to be noticed as the au- 

 tiior of 



1. The American Gardener; or a treatise on the situation, 

 soil, fencing-, and laying -odt of Gardens, on the making 

 and managing of Hot-beds, and Green-houses, and on 

 the propagation and cultivation of the several sorts of ve- 

 getables, herbs. Fruits and Flowers. London. 1821. 12mo. 



2. The Woodlands, or a Treatise on Planting. In 8vo parts, 

 began 1820. 



PATRICK NEILL. M. A. F. L. S. Secretary to the Natu- 

 ral History and Caledonian Horticultural Societies of Edin- 

 burgh. This scientific and excellent Gentleman is author of 

 the followins: 



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