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those under them to pay particular attention to the subject, 

 but take an active and decided interest themselves, and by 

 their patronage and approbation stimulate all classes to use 

 their utmost endeavours to promote so desirable and useful 

 an improvement. Let them look to those noble-minded and 

 philanthropic individuals mentioned in some of your preceding 

 pages : such examples are worthy of imitation. Let such 

 conduct as the late Lord Cawdor's, by the means of my much- 

 esteemed friend Mr. Buchan, be imitated and established, 

 and in a short time I have little doubt but the success will be 

 equal, at least in nine cases out of ten. Let gardeners not 

 only be authorised but encouraged to distribute cuttings of 

 trees of good kinds, or roots and seeds that are useful and 

 fitting for the consumption of those whom it is intended to 

 benefit; I mean such things as can be spared from their 

 employers' gardens without detriment to their interest, and 

 would otherwise be wasted ; for in every garden of any extent 

 there are many superfluous productions which would be highly 

 valuable to the poor cottager. I say let this be generally 

 done, and the condition of the labourers on every gentleman's 

 estate would be ameliorated, and their cottages and gardens 

 rendered much more comfortable, clean, neat, and ornamental 

 than they are at present. I have only to add, that if these 

 remarks should have the effect of drawing to this subject the 

 attention of any of your readers, better qualified to be useful, 

 my greatest ambition will be gratified. 



I am, most respectfully, Sir, &c. 



William Wilson. 

 Merley Gardens, Winborne, Dorsetshire, 

 Nov. SO. 1826'. 



Art. VI. On Slate Tallies for naming Plants. 



By SUFFOLCIENSIS. 



Sir, 



A plan I have lately adopted for marking all descriptions 

 of plants in my garden, appears to me so cheap and durable, 

 that I am desirous, through the medium of your excellent Ma- 

 gazine, to make it generally known ; conceiving, as I do not 

 observe a similar method mentioned in your Encyclopaedia of 

 Gardening, it is not very frequently practised. 



The material I use is slate, which I cut into tallies of various 

 sizes, from one to two inches wide, and from three to six, 



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