468 Domestic Notices. — England. 



We should wish every gardener to subscribe ; because there is something 

 grand in feeling an interest and sympathy in public works and national 

 undertakings, and because we would wish every gardener to participate in 

 generous and elevating sentiments. Joining in a subscription is a sensible 

 evidence to ourselves and others of this feeling ; and, therefore, we hope 

 every gardener, who would not wish to be considered destitute of soul, 

 patriotism, or philanthropy, will put down something, however little. The 

 amount of the subscription has nothing to do with the feeling connected 

 with it ; the noblest and the most useful subscriptions are those that are 

 made in the smallest coin. The idea of accomplishing a great national 

 undertaking, at a penny a head, volunteered by men, women, and children 

 of all ranks, is sublime. The man who subscribes to a public work for 

 the first time in his life, is using the means for giving a new impulse to the 

 higher order of human feelings. He is adopting a course calculated to 

 impress on the mind the consciousness of sentiments far above those which 

 have reference merely, or chiefly, to self-preservation or advancement in 

 the world ; and which in man, at a certain stage of his progress to intellec- 

 tual enjoyment, must be hailed as a new sense. The influence of this im- 

 pulse will be felt from that day to the end of life. To subscribe for the 

 tunnel, for instance, will not only lend an interest to all that concerns that 

 particular undertaking, but will give rise to sentiments of an order unex- 

 perienced before, on the projection or execution of future tunnels, bridges, 

 canals, and other public works. There is such a thing, as Mrs. Hoffland has 

 observed, as a " sense of elegant enjoyment." It is elevating to feel ourselves 

 connected with our country and mankind by sentiments common to great 

 minds in all ages ; and it is ennobling to reflect that the poorest of us may 

 participate in these sentiments as well as the richest. There are many 

 worthy persons who have a proper relish for personal and social comforts 

 and enjoyments, who yet cannot rise so high as to partake of this feeling. 

 But it is within the compass of human enjoyment, and therefore ought to 

 be aimed at by every one who is desirous of making the most of the gift of 

 life. Let every gardener, therefore, who has not subscribed to any public 

 work before, take our advice, and try an experiment upon himself by 

 giving something towards the completion of this tunnel. The highest 

 amount which, under any circumstances, ought to be given by men so poor 

 as we gardeners generally are, may be according to the following scale : ap- 

 prentices, and journeymen in nurseries or out of place, 6d. each ; journeymen, 

 and masters in nurseries or out of place, Is. each ; masters in place, 2s. each. 

 But we should be still better pleased with collections of the smallest coin, 

 and should like to see in the list of subscriptions to the tunnel, published 

 in the newspapers, such items as, " Thirty gardeners out of place, now at 

 work in Lee's nursery at 12s. a week, 2s. 6d." " The Subscribers to the 

 Clapton Nursery Library, collected in halfpence, 3s." &c. Tradesmen 

 gardeners may subscribe what they please. 



English Elm. — Mr. Monteath advises planting the Scotch or wych elm, 

 which, he says, is excellent timber, and used in ship-building. This may be 

 the case, but surely it is inferior in every respect to the English elm ; the 

 , latter possessing a property which few equally good forest trees have ; and 

 that isj when once planted in woods or hedge-rows (for which it is superior 

 to all others), in suitable soil, it perpetuates itself by abundance of suckers 

 from the root. This remark should be attended to by planters ; to choose 

 young English elm plants raised from layers, and not such as have been 

 grafted, which was once a practice in the public nurseries. (Brit.Farmers 

 Magazine, p. 705.) 



By comparing this paragraph with Cobbett's opinionfp. 508.)the reader will 

 learn how very differently practical men think on the same subject. It is 

 easy, however, to reconcile the opinions of Cebbett, Monteath, and the 



