488 Notices to Readers and Correspo?idents. 



Art. XVI. Obituary. 



Died at his son's house, the Craven Arras Hotel, Coventry, in January 

 last, Mr. John Whitlock, aged 87 years. He was apprenticed to His Grace 

 the Duke of Devonshire's gardener at Chiswick, remained at that place 

 and Chattesworth for seyeral years, and was afterwards many years head 

 gardener to Lord Kilmorey. He was well known in Huntingdonshire and 

 Lincoln ; and the latter part of his time, until he retired to live with his 

 son at Coventry, he was in partnership with Mr. Bagley, nurseryman, 

 Chelsea. His extensive memory and professional abilities as a gardener 

 were seldom surpassed, and not often equalled. (J. Oliver, Combe Garden, 

 May 2. 1827.) 



In May, by a fall from his chaise, Mr. Bannerman, of the Walton Nur- 

 sery near Liverpool ; much esteemed and respected, as a man and as a 

 tradesman. 



Notices. 



SOME communications on the Corn Laws, and others relative to breeding 

 of Cattle, ivorking the Ox, 8$c, we consider as too agricultural for our 

 Miscellany, and have, therefore, sent them to Fleming's British Farmer's 

 Magazine. A principal object in some of these letters "seems to be, to 

 ascertain our particular opinion on the subjects treated of; and, in case 

 this should be any gratification to their writers, we shall shortly state, 

 that, as to the Corn Laws, we consider the question, in the abstract, 

 as simply a trial of strength between land and labour — between those 

 who live on rent, and those who live by the work of their hands or 

 their heads; and, therefore, looking upon the farmer as a wholesale 

 labourer, we consider it as much for his interest that the Corn Laws 

 should be repealed, as for the interest of the manufacturer, the artisan, or 

 the man of all work. On breeding we have already given our opinion 

 (p. 456.); and with respect to the advantage of working oxen, it may be 

 deduced from the history of the practice in all countries, — that it only 

 answers where the price of every description of labour is low. 



On the subject of accenting the scientific names of plants, and adding their 

 English names, we have only to refer to p. 447. 



A Kalendarial Index to this and the first volume will be found after the 

 General Index. In future, a kalendarial arrangement of the contents of 

 each Number will be given on the cover, and a General Kalendarial Index 

 at the end of the volume. We cannot, with some correspondents, see that 

 it would be of advantage to our readers, to give a perpetual gardener's 

 kalendar, in the permanent pages of the work. We are almost inclined to 

 think it might do harm, by lessening the vigilance and self-dependence, if 

 the expression may be used, of practical men. No good gardener will ever 

 be a slave to his kalendar; for which reason Mr. M'Phail published what 

 he with great propriety called a remembrancer ; and a duodecimo 2s. work, 

 under the title of The Gardener's Remembrancer, by Abercrombie, may be 

 considered as the' ultimatum in this kind of writing, and quite kalendar 

 enough for the best or the worst of gardeners or amateurs. 



Part IV. Advertisements, &c. will in future be discontinued, and, in- 

 stead thereof, an additional sheet devoted to Advertisements, which may 

 or may not be bound up with the work, at the option of subscribers. This 

 arrangement will be for the obvious advantage of our readers, and the more 

 early gratification of our correspondents. 



