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possession, and must give way to one more docile ; so that he has every 

 inducement to persevere in orderly industry. 



Near this is another building, which Mr. Thompson is fitting up for 

 a school of industry for the children of his tenants, without any intention 

 to interfere, directly or indirectly, with their notions on religious topics. 

 Around it, Mr. Thompson has marked out five acres more, which the chil- 

 dren are to be taught to cultivate with spades, as a field garden, on the 

 most approved Flemish plan. The produce, great or small, is to be their 

 own. The school does not open till spring, but the cottage-farm is fully 

 stocked, and the tenant in possession. This Mr. William Thompson is 

 the author of the Inquiry into the Distribution of Wealth. (Times of 

 Feb. 22. 1832.) 



By a Report of the Agricultural Cooperative Society in the county 

 of Clare, in The Crisis (edited by Robert Owen, and advocating co- 

 operation and the other opinions of his party, published in quarto weekly 

 numbers, at a penny each), it appears that the above establishments are 

 prospering. Every married man has a cottage to himself, and can either 

 have his food cooked in the public kitchen, or dressed in his own house. 

 The bachelors and spinsters sleep in separate dormitories. There is an 

 infant school, in which every male youth j s taught a trade, besides a 

 thorough knowledge of agriculture. The children have a lecture three 

 times a week, and two concerts, accompanied by dances. (Crisis, No. vii. 

 p. 27.) 



Ireland resembles the Continent, where every proprietor of a park or a 

 garden, from the king to the humble country gentleman, enhances his own 

 enjoyment by sharing it with the public. ( Tour of a German Prince.) 



Art. IV. Hints for Improvements. 



THE following Trees and Plants luonld be well worth acquiring for Culti- 

 vation in Britain, viz. : — JPagus &etulb'ides (the birch-like beech), an ever- 

 green tree, 50 ft. high ; .Fagus antarctica (the Antarctic beech), a deciduous 

 tree, 50 ft. in height ; and the Wintera aromatica (Winter's bark tree) : all 

 found in the severe climate of the Strait of Magellan. [Fagus ftetuloides 

 and antarctica were both introduced to ColvilPs Nursery in 1830. Wintera 

 aromatica (called now Drimys Forsten) was introduced to Britain in 

 1827, but is as yet kept in the stove : it is an evergreen tree. — J. D.] 

 At Zurich, apples of curious kinds are sold, some as white as snow. The 

 inhabitants are particularly famed for the cultivation of flowers, and excel in 

 China asters. At Lausanne, the red currants are of an extraordinary size. 

 In Russia, a variety of rice is used, which grows in Siberia, and is more 

 succulent than that of America. Enquiries should be made about this ; 

 because, possibly, in it our bog soils might gain the acquisition of a new 

 production. 



Tamarisk planted by cuttings in the spring, in driving sands on the sea- 

 shore, will immediately take root ; and the falling leaves, in a few years, 

 will fix the sand. Sea-weed may also be collected and spread over the 

 sand, which the stems of the tamarisk would hold in their place. Tamarisk 

 may be cut every spring, and thus yield an annual profit : the wood is heavy, 

 and good to burn. 



Wild Cabbage. The Rev. W. T. Bree having called your attention to the 

 wild cabbage of Dover, allow me to point out a use to which it may be most 

 beneficially applied, viz., covering acres of sea-beach and driving sands. 

 Plants should be put in in September or October; and in the spring, just 

 as they were bursting into blossom, the crowns only should be cut to feed 



