THE 



GARDENERS MAGAZINE, 



JUNE, 1832. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. General Results of a Gardening Tour, during Juty$ 

 August, and part of September, in the Year 1831, from Dum- 

 fries, by Kirkcudbright, Ayr, and Greenock, to Paisley. By the 

 Conductor, 



{Continued from p. 134.) 



In our last fragment, we offered a few remarks on fences in 

 parks and pleasure-grounds, and our present article was 

 intended to be devoted to plantations ; but, as there is now, 

 happily, a great spirit in the country for the improvement of 

 cottages, we shall give that subject the preference. The 

 depressed state of the agricultural population in England, the 

 consequent pressure of the poor-rates in some places, and the 

 outrages of incendiaries in others, have forced the attention of 

 the landed proprietors to the means of ameliorating, or at 

 least quieting for a time, their territorial population ; and, in 

 consequence, we have heard, for upwards of a year, of cot- 

 tages being repaired, and land allotted to cottagers at mode- 

 rate rents, throughout most of the English counties. Within 

 the last six months the alarm occasioned by the cholera has 

 caused increased attention to be given to the subject of com- 

 fortable cottages for agricultural labourers, and to that of the 

 condition of the poor generally ; cleanliness* warmth, proper 

 ventilation, and wholesome food being found the best prevent- 

 ives of that disease. 



The dwellings of the working classes, and especially those 

 on the country residences of landed proprietors, and in the 



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