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hours, to raise such vegetables as himself and family require; a plan which 

 has been attended with the best effects in various places ; and it is 

 to be regretted that the practice is not more general. Captain Pole 

 has entered into calculations the most obviously clear, that a labourer who 

 costs the parish 11/. 145. per annum, may be kept off it by paying for him, 

 or giving him an opportunity of paying himself, a rent of 3l. for land. The 

 principal difficulty in commencing such a system, is the unwillingness of old 

 tenants to have their fields dismembered for the purpose. In new enclo- 

 sures, or where landlords are disposed to throw some of their fields into al- 

 lotments for the poor, the project is an easy, and doubtless a beneficial one 

 for both the poor and the parish ; and as the system is not intended to be 

 compulsory, either on parishes or individuals, in accepting or rejecting it, 

 the measure may be more palatable, as involving no change of laws or an- 

 cient usages. Captain Pole is supported in this scheme by several of the 

 farmers, and many of the labourers of the parish of Barford, and, from what 

 he knows of the place and peasantry, it seems a suitable station for such a 

 trial. 



In the statement before us, it is not contemplated that such allotments 

 should pay either poor rates or tithes, nor is the fencing mentioned ; and 

 though such an arrangement may be allowed by local feelings and genero- 

 sity, it is an advantage not to be expected everywhere. The scheme is one 

 calculated only for the sober, industrious, well-disposed man : with the im- 

 provident and reckless character, no facilities of taking a piece of land, nor 

 any injunctions as to the use he should make of the produce, will deter him 

 from disposing of it as he pleases. Whatever may be the difficulties attend- 

 ing carrying such a plan of political economy and pure benevolence (so 

 honourable to the projector) into effect, the object at which it aims, so 

 highly important to the best interests of the kingdom, deserves the attention 

 of every person of property in the land, and every friend to well-ordered 

 society. — J. M.for Cond. 



Flesh-coloured Clover {Trifdliu7n incarnatiim L. ; Farouche, Fr.) (Vol. IV. 

 p. 392.) — A valuable communication on this subject has been sent us, signed 

 R. and D. The writer gives an extract from the Annales Agricoles de 

 Roville, showing the high opinion M. de Doinbasle has of this plant in poor, 

 dry, sandy soils; and he also states the opinion of M. Schwertz, the late 

 director of the agricultural establishment at Hochheim, near Stuttgard, 

 where R. and D. saw the clover in the middle of April, 1828. We were 

 at Roville in October last, and saw the clover in the form of hay, and the 

 field where it grew ; and M. Dombasle mentioned to us that he considered 

 this species of clover better than any other leguminous hay plant for poor, 

 dry, sandy soils. When we were at Hochheim in the November following, 

 M. Schwertz had retired, and the new director having only arrived there 

 from another part of the country within a few days, could give us very little 

 information respecting the establishment. The flesh-coloured clover gives 

 but one cut ; but, upon the same soil, this one cut is equal to two of red 

 clover. This one cut, also, comes earlier than either clover or lucerne ; so 

 that the same soil may be prepared for another crop the same year. A 

 stock of seed has arrived in London, and may be had through any of the 

 seedsmen ; and we hope the plant will receive a fair trial in England. The 

 communication signed R. and D. is sent to the British Farmer's JMagazine ; 

 not that agricultural communications are altogether unsuitable for our work, 

 for some have aln^ady been inserted ; but, as a testimony of our regard for 

 that periodical, and because we wish to be on the best footing with all our 

 contemporaries. — Cond. 



The New Zealand Spinach (Tetragonia expansa) is quite a weed with us; 

 as, wherever it has once grown, plants rise spontaneously, even when the 

 seeds have been wheeled out with the dung in the winter, and again 



