572 Retrosjyective Criticism. 



battle of last winter, when General Frost so provokingly snatched the laurel 

 from us, and left the field bestrewed with our dead and dying. 

 Wounded. Killed. 



Bignonias J'rbutus, young plants 



Chimonanthus Biiddlea 



Cypress Cistus ladanlferus 



Hydrangeas Z>aphne Dauphin«, and others 



Walnuts Er\Q2L mediterranea, and others 



Kalmias Jasminum revolutum 



Magnolia tripetala, and others Privet, Chinese 



Rhododendrons, several sorts Lonicera flexuosa 



i?hus Cotinus Mulberry, white 



Ribes speciosum Passiflora caerulea 



Robiniff viscosa racemosa 



Roses, China and Noisette, Banks2«, Laurustinus 



Macartney, and a few others Cornus capitata 



Paeon/a Aloutan Alexandrian laurel, though last not 



5'partium muitiflorum least, doubtless stolen to deck the 



Jasminum, several sorts General's brow. 



Laurels, common and Portugal 

 f/'lex, or Furze, above ground 

 Evergreen oak. 



These are a few of the slaughtered and injured, and I trust their fate will 

 teach us to be better prepared and fortified against the attack of that or any 

 other northern power in future. — W. Godsall. Nursery, Hereford, Jan. 17. 

 1839. 



SCOTLAND. 



Improvements in Cottage Buildings and Cottage Gardens. — This important 

 subject will be prominently brought forward at the ensuing meeting of the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society at Berwick. We are permitted to extract 

 the following passage from a pamphlet which is now in the press, written by a 

 gentleman in tiiis neighbourhood, and entitled " The Peasantry of the Border, 

 an Appeal in their Behalf." " Give them good Cottages, and help them to edu- 

 cate their Children." 



" The movement is begun. Cottages are springing up, gardens are bloom- 

 ing, and schools are being constructed, which attest that many lords of the 

 manor are anxious that the ' cottage homes of England' should be as much 

 the abodes of comfort as their own mansion-houses. I have already alluded 

 to the efforts of the Highland and Agricultural Society ; and, even while 1 

 have been preparing this appeal for the press, a prospectus has been sent to 

 me, which contains ' The outline of general rules for a Society supplementary 

 to the Agricultural Society of the county, to promote the improvement of cot- 

 tages and cottage gardens in Northumberland.' 



" I addition to this happy token for good, an announcement has been made, 

 that many of the leading members of agricultural societies, visitors from a 

 distance, as well as proprietors from each side of the Border, who are ex- 

 pected to be present at the meeting at Berwick, to be held Sept. 29. and 30., 

 and Oct. 1., are invited to partake of the hospitalities at Etal House on the 

 2d October, in order that attention may be directed to the practical amelior- 

 ations which have already been effected, and to those which would further 

 result from an extended association to improve the condition of cottages and 

 cottagers." {Berwick and Kelso Warder, Sept. 18. 1811.) 



Art. IV. Retrospective Criticism. 



Recent Urine of Sheep. — It is stated in the Subwban Horticulturist, p. 38., 

 that the recent urine of sheep does not kill grass, but I can assure you it does ; 



