Horticultural Register. 607 



All the objections which we have made to it, and which we might make, if 

 we chose to enter farther into details, may be gathered from our first article 

 in the last Number. We shall by and by show a plan having the same object 

 in view, and adapted for a piece of ground, now occupied as a nursery, 

 in the neighbourhood of Birmingham. 



8. On Labourers' Cottages recently erected at Thurlby in Lincoln- 

 shire. By Artus. When Sir E. F. Bromhead " came into possession of 

 the estate, he found it divided into large farms, and let but to two or three 

 tenants ; consequently his parish had very few inhabitants. He divided 

 each of these farms, and increased his population. What few labourers 

 were in the village had only the meanest and most uncomfortable of 

 hovels to reside in, and their state was that of complete degradation : 

 they now begin to feel they are men and to erijoij, rather than endure^ 

 existence. 



" Each of these cottages contains two dwellings. In front, betwixt it 

 and the I'oad (from which it is separated by a green hedge and a deep 

 ditch), is a garden belonging to both, and only divided by a walk down the 

 middle. Behind is an entire yard to each house, fitted up with a pigsty 

 and every other convenience. The entrance to each dwelling is from its 

 own yard ,• and a road is left, closed with a gate, at each end of the garden, 

 by which the yard is entered, and coals and other articles brought in. 

 To each single house is allotted an acre of land, independent of the garden, 

 for the inmates to cultivate as they think proper ; thus finding a profitable 

 employment for the labourer's wife when she has time to spare, for 

 such children as are fit for labour, and for the man himself, on a sum- 

 mer evening, after he has finished his daily task at his employer's. 



" The erection of these cottages has not been attended with much 

 expense. They are built of brick, and covered with tiles or thatch ; the 

 bricks and tiles, I think, made upon the spot. They are plain buildings, 

 and destitute of all those external ornaments, ivJiich, like the crested buttons 

 on a livery suit, proclaim the dependence of the possessor. Yet, covered as 

 thej' are with fruit trees, shrubs, and climbers, they are not void of beauty, 

 though that beauty may be somewhat different from what a fastidious fancy 

 would call the picturesque." 



9. Arboriculture, No. 2. Outline of the Theory of Arboriculture. 

 Food of Plants. Analysis of Soils. By Quercus." The substance of this 

 paper has already appeared in this Magazine in Johnson's Outlines of Horti- 

 cultural Chemistry, 



Part IL Horticultural and Rural Subjects. Reviews and Extracts. Py rus 

 ikfalus Brentfordiensis is noticed, deservedly praised, and objections made 

 to the want of synonymes. Nearly six pages are taken from the Gardener's 

 Magazine for June, and four more from other periodicals. 



Part in. Natural History. Original Communications. L On the Havock 

 committed by the short-tailed Field Mouse (ikfus arvalis), in the Plant- 

 ations of the Forest of Dean. Communicated by Mr. E. Murphy. 



" ' Before the autumn of 1813,' says Mr. Billington [whose book we re- 

 viewed. Vol. VI. p. 473. and 674.], ' the mice had become so numerous, that we 

 could pick up four or five plants of the larger five year old oaks, on a very 

 small piece of ground, all bitten off, just within the ground, between the 

 roots and the stem ; and not only oak and ash, but elm, sycamore, and 

 Spanish chestnut, of which, however, they did not appear to be so fond as 

 of the two former. The hollies which had been cut down produced 

 abundance of suckers, which were destroyed in the same manner, and 

 some of them, which were as thick as a man's leg, were barked all round, 

 for four or five feet up the stem.' The crab tree, willow, furze, larch, 

 spruce, in a word, every kind of tree, and even grass, particularly cocks- 

 foot grass, seemed equally acceptable to these voracious little creatures ; 

 till at length ' Lord Glenbervie became so alarmed about the final success 



