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cottager more comfortable and happy at home will 

 render him a better servant and subject, and in every 

 respect a more valuable member of society. Besides one 

 of the most constantly occurring objects in the country 

 is the labourer's cottage, whether detached by the road- 

 side or grouped in hamlets and villages, and, therefore, 

 to render such buildings and their scenery more orna- 

 mental must, independently of every other considera- 

 tion, be a very laudable object ; ' and again at page 1044 

 he observes, * It would be a most desirable circumstance 

 if proprietors who keep head-gardeners would desire 

 them to attend to the gardens of the cottagers on their 

 estates, to supply them with proper seeds and plants ; 

 to propagate for them a few fruit-trees, and distribute 

 them in the proper place in their plots ; to teach them 

 modes of culture suitable for their circumstances. In 

 this way, at no additional expense whatever to the 

 proprietor, much happiness might be diffused ; and 

 constantly recurring objects, too often indicating 

 wretchedness or, at least, slovenliness, rendered useful, 

 neat, and even ornamental.' 



Lord Gardenstone in his Memorandums concerning 

 the village of Lawrence Kirk inserted in the Ewropean 

 Magazine, declares, ' I felt an agreeable zeal in the 

 project, and contracted a fond affection to the people 

 as they became inhabitants of my village. I have 

 tried in some measure a variety of pleasures which 



