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my former communication are misplaced ; but the following 

 alteration with a pen will correct them : — 



Fig. 3. The upper letter/ above z, should be g ; the second g, above z, 

 should be/; the first a, above z, should be /; the letter a, below z, should 

 be placed just above z, to point out the spiral vessels ; the letter s, near the 

 bottom, should be struck out. — Fig. 4. The two letters m m should be 

 changed into //; and the two letters // into m m. 



Art. II. On Cottage Husbandry and Architecture, chiefly with 

 reference to certain Prize Essays received on Cottage Gardening, 

 and to projected Encyclopaedias on these subjects. By the Con- 

 ductor. 



Nine prize essays have been received, to three of which, instead of one as 

 promised (Gard. Mag., vol. v. p. 713.), we have awarded the first prize' (a 

 copy of the Encyclopaedia of Plants, and a copy of the Hortus Britdnnicus), and 

 they are published in the three articles succeeding to the present. To 'each 

 of the remaining six essays we have awarded the second premium, a copy 

 of the Hortus Britdnnicus), and from them we have published extracts in 

 the form of notes, to different parts of the essay immediately following the 

 present article. This essay, by " A Practical Gardener," we know to be writ- 

 ten by an Englishman, a chemist, a general reader, and an excellent practical 

 gardener ; he has a family, and has for several years been head gardener at 

 an extensive residence in the west of England, and kept a cow and pigs. This 

 essay may be considered as particularly adapted for England. The third 

 essay, by " The Cottarman's Friend," is by a Scotchman, a scientific and 

 experienced gardener, farmer, and general manager of an estate in Perth- 

 shire ; it is excellent, and may be considered as particularly adapted for 

 Scotland. " J. P.," the author of the second essay, is a stranger of whom 

 we know nothing further than that his essay is exceedingly well drawn up 

 and altogether worthy of the first prize. It contains an excellent calendar 

 and tables, and may be considered as a manual of culture, both for the 

 cottage labourer, and the independent cottager. Some of the authors of 

 the other essays we know, or think we know, from then* handwriting, and 

 others we do not know. The most scientific of these essays is by " T. A. ; " 

 but his calculations are founded on the very best crops, and therefore im- 

 practicable. They are all written with the best feeling, and there is not 

 one of them that would not have been worth publishing under ordinary 

 circumstances. 



The present introductory essay is to be considered as supplementary to 

 the three which follow, and chiefly as an attempt to show the practicability 

 of every cottager growing his own fuel. We have also shown how in- 

 dependent or proprietor cottagers may grow their own malt, hops, sugar, 

 cider, perry, wines, spirit, tobacco, substitutes for tea and coffee, opium, 

 and other medicines. We have added a plan of a labourer's cottage, 

 chiefly with a view of showing the mode of heating and cooking by the 

 description of fuel (faggot-wood), which we recommend to be grown. (We 

 might have also given a plan for an association of dwellings to be heated 

 by steam, as a substitute for detached cottages, in manufacturing towns.) 

 All the subjects touched on in the three following essays, with several 

 others, will be farther developed in intended Encyclopedias of Cottage 



