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li would also be well if each cottage could be provided with pigsties, and 

 tanks for collecting drainage for tillage. If, too, sufficient land could be 

 allowed to support a cow, it would be a considerable privilege. The gardens 

 in the first instance, I think, ought to be laid out by the owners' gardeners, 

 or some competent person, and necessary fences and fruit trees introduced, 

 under condition that the form of the grounds and the position of the trees 

 should be always maintained. This would be far better both for landlord 

 and tenant than for the tenant to pursue his own plans, as, on the latter 

 plan, with every change of tenant a change in the garden would be the 

 result, and discord and confusion woidd arise. I think also that the 

 proprietors' gardeners should be allowed to pay a visit to each garden two 

 or three times a year, that they might give a few general instructions, with 

 which, and with the help of the Cottage Garden Book, the cottager might (if 

 he is only willing) manage very well. I am the more anxious about this 

 practical assistance being given in the first instance, because, if the breaking 

 up and formation of a new garden were left entirely to the untutored cottager, 

 the result would most likely be that his produce would not repay his labour, 

 and he would, in time, dislike what ought to have proved both a profit and a 

 pleasure ; at least, he would follow it with slovenliness and neglect. Thus, 

 the objects of his having a garden would be frustrated, namely, affording him 

 pecuniary assistance in the best form, preventing the waste of time at a 

 public-house, and leading to the devotion of his leisure hours to pursuits 

 which are most healthy, rational, and interesting, and calculated to increase 

 the union, happiness, and pleasurable recreation of his whole family. 



One or two horticultural shows in a year in a village, or among a 

 number of adjoining villages, would be likely to create great interest, and 

 to stimulate the cottagers to vie with each other in the growth of the best 

 productions. 



I would very respectfully ask the lady of the village to co-operate with the 

 pastor, by paying occasional visits to cheer and encourage the cottagers, and 

 giving them both temporal and spiritual advice. Such attention and watch- 

 fulness will not fail to win the affection and respect of the villagers to their 

 superiors. I took the hberty, some fifteen years ago, to suggest publicly 

 similar views, which I had afterwards the pleasure of witnessing carried into 

 practice. In one instance where I had the honour of paying a visit to a 

 family in Westmoreland, I found a neat, clean village, trained with roses and 



