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of colors as an Axminster carpet. As every rood is 

 subdivided into a great variety of vegetables, and 

 as forty or fifty of such patches, lying side by side, 

 present, in one coup d'ceil, all the alternations of which 

 these crops and colors are susceptible, the effect is very 

 picturesque. 



My Woodhurst friend makes his allotment system a 

 source of much social enjoyment to himself and the 

 poor villagers. He lets forty-seven patches, each con- 

 taining twenty poles. Every tenant pays 10s., or 

 $2 40c., annual rent for his little holding, Mr. E. 

 drawing the manure for each, which is always one good 

 load a year. Here, too, these little spade-farmers are 

 put under the same regime as the great tenant agricul- 

 turists of the country. Each must farm his allotment 

 according to the terms of the yearly lease. He must 

 dig up his land with spade or pick, not plough it ; and 

 he is not allowed to work on it upon the Sabbath. 

 But encouragements greatly predominate over restric- 

 tions, and stimulate and reward a high cultivation. 

 Eight prizes are offered to this end, of the following 

 amounts : 10s., 7s. 6d., 5s., 4s., 3s., 2s. 6d., 2s. and 

 Is. Every one who competes must not have more 

 than half his allotment in potatoes. The greater the 

 variety of vegetables the other half contains, the better 

 is his chance for the first prize. The appraiser is some 



