NOTES. 79 



shows, and in other parts of Lancashire, those for gooseberries, &c. See Der- 

 byshire Report, vol. ii. p. 213. 



443 It may be proper here to mention a curious fact recorded in the Surrey 

 of the Hebrides. A cottager there, had his cabbages much injured by the cater- 

 pillar. He surrounded his little garden with hemp, and was no more molested 

 by them, the smell of that plant being noxious to insects. The same idea exists 

 in France, as appears from the following paragraph : " Quelques personnes ont 

 cm reconnaitre qu'on semant du chanvre sur Unites les bordures d'un terrain, les 

 chenilles n'ont point depasse* cette barriere, quoiqu'elles infestassent tout le 

 voisinage." 



444 It is probable also, that much useful information might be obtained from 

 China, regarding fruit trees and gardening. 



445 The information he obtained in Flanders was peculiarly valuable. Much 

 might be expected in a country, where, it is said, that no species of fruit trees 

 that the country was ever possessed of has become extinct. -~Vanderstraeten < s 

 Improved Agriculture, p. 1 60, note. 



446 General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 182. 



447 Marshall's West of England, vol. i. p. 233. 



448 Berks Report, p. 475. 



449 This will in a great measure depend on the peculiar fitness or otherwise 

 of the soil and situation of the spot selected, for apple culture. Mr William 

 Smith, in carrying on the investigations for his large Map of the Strata of Eng- 

 land, &c. discovered, among some other things relating to vegetable products, 

 that all the chief cider districts, and the sites of all the best apple orchards, were 

 on the same stratum of red marl, which stretches across the island from Dorset- 

 shire to Yorkshire. Wherever it appears, the soil is fitted, by nature, to the 

 purposes of orcharding, in a peculiar degree, perhaps more so than any other in 

 our island. Comm. from Mr Forty. On which Mr Middleton observes, that 

 valuable fruit, hops, and corn, are raised, with peculiar success, on calcareous 

 soils. 



450 Gloucester Report, p. 238. 



45) Marshall's West of England, vol. i. p. 233. Inferior grass lands arc 

 often much benefited by being planted with fruit-trees. As orchards, the shelter 

 of the trees, and the dropping of the leaves in autumn, promote their fertility. 

 They should not, however, be planted too close, as the trees would soon become 

 mossy, and decay ; and the grass, from being too much sheltered, would become 

 sour and unkind : both objects would thus be defeated. Remark by Edward 

 Burroughs, Esq. 



452 Herefordshire Report, p. 91. 



453 Marshall's Gloucestershire, vol. ii. p. 295. In regard to the idleness 

 and debauchery which cider orchards are alleged to occasion, it is justly obser- 

 ved in the Somerset Report, p. 1 26, " That we ought not to confound the abuse 

 of a thing, with its intrinsic value." 



454 A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple and the Pear, by T. A. Knight, 

 Esq. p. 44, note. That, however, is of less consequence, as an acre of pear 

 trees, the fruit converted into perry, is found to equal what many persons in 

 France, derive from good vineyards. 



455 Herts Report, p. 443. 



456 Marshall's Southern Districts, vol. i. p. 305. 



457 Oxfordshire Report, p. 22O. Tin- high value of walnut tree wood, as 

 well as the profit derived from the fruit, seems to require a more extensive plant, 

 ing of them. See Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 215. 



458 Marshall's Southern Districts, vol. i. p. 307. 



459 General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 180. 



460 Devonshire Report, p. 239. 



461 Somerset Report, p. 220. 



462 Marshall's Gloucestershire, vol. ii. p. 271. 



463 Somerset Report, p. 124. 



464 Herts Report, p. 143. 



