ich they could not 

 nsb need attend little village societies, which ought 

 to be instituted by the gentry for the benefit of the 

 Pwt. Mr. Brown's case shows conclusively that ii 

 this ■ done properly the end is triumphant success. 

 Pvtchley is merely one of the numberless agricul- 

 tural parishes of England, containing a mixture oi 

 good and bad land,— of pasture, tillage, and copse,— 

 cf gentle slopes, some towards the sun and som< 



Us populati 

 •l^ire ; no inhabitant who keeps a gardener ; nor, 

 witu last year, any artificial (garden) heat beyond a 

 J* Cucumber frames. The place wl 

 *e held (the only suitable place in 



hool-room, 20 feet square by 1 

 these means it has existed for 

 J" jf jears, and every season adds somethi 

 "* efficiency. We do not judge of its effic 

 bra L y the im P r °ved quality of the pr 

 of Si ^ snow s> though that would be evidence 



n^ca value. _ The real advantage whi 

 ^e deriving is more especially mai 

 , - J condition of the little allotments, to encourage 



:' its object. 



Bar^ e <F^ chley Horticultural Society," says M 



fata ( ** prizes for g ood culture, and exce 



One fi °,j >roduce among the allotments in the parish. 



i <>f rood allotments has been let to the poor 



lately been added. 













member, 



sTcos^ 



40 prizes, costing 1/ 

 g 3/. 8*. (including 1 





nts and gardens), and 





'.»*■. 3 /. 





u.l - - 





in 1837 (three shows) 









shows) it 



was ,.. 



16s. M, and in 1848 



fliers there 

 t such marvel- 

 ' plants i 

 into any one of them, and further i 

 These qualities are popularly believed to depend 

 upon the peculiar chemical e-*™ 

 upon a particular per c-"*"" 

 which chemical analysis might reveal. We believe- 

 no such thing. The different qualities of peat 

 depend upon their physical differences and upon 

 them alone. In one a Lire- quant itv of tibrous 



For the sensible rules, by the operation of which 

 such humble means have been made to produce so 

 large a result, we must refer to the pamphlet with 

 an earnest recommendation that they should be 

 ttle change as possible. Undoubt- 

 edly, circumstances may occasionally render some 

 departure from them expedient ; but the great pnn- 

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nd in general by nothing else 

 It is part of the horticultural fa ! 



