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and tenant would have greater returns. By this great public 

 benefit would arise. Labour would, in the first place, be 

 more in demand, and the labouring classes of all professions 

 would be able to live more comfortably ; the British manu- 

 facturer would be aided in his competition with the cheap la- 

 bour of other countries ; the general revenue of the country 

 would be greatly increased, thereby diminishing the pressure 

 of the national debt; whilst the salubrity of the climate, and 

 general beauty of the country, would be vastly promoted. 

 There is no subject, therefore, more worthy the attention of 

 landed proprietors and agricultural associations, and, in- 

 deed, of all who desire to promote the prosperity of their 

 country, than the encouragement of the thorough drainage 

 and deep working of land." 



We strongly recommend the establishment of exhibitions 

 of this kind by the principal seedsmen in our pi'ovincial towns 

 every where. By collecting so many interesting articles, and 

 displaying them, as is done at Stirling, for four months, no 

 farmer who comes to market can escape seeing them ; and he 

 must be a lifeless piece of dough, indeed, who would not be 

 stimulated by them to introduce better varieties of grain and 

 roots, and improved implements, on his own farm. 



Loudon, J. C. : An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa 

 Architecture and Furniture ; containing numerous Designs 

 for Dwellings, from the Cottage to the Villa, including 

 Farm Houses, Farmeries, and other Agricultural Build- 

 ings; several Designs for Country Inns, Public Houses, 

 and Parochial Schools ; with the requisite Fittings-up, Fix- 

 tures, and Furniture; and appropriate Offices, Gardens, and 

 Garden Scenery ; each Design accompanied with Analyti- 

 cal and Critical Remarks, illustrative of the Principles of 

 Architectural Science and Taste on which it is composed. 

 Illustrated by nearly 100 lithographs, and above 2000 

 engravings on wood. 8vo, pp. 1138. London, 1833. 

 51. 



This work, which is one of the cheapest which ever issued 

 from the British press, will, we trust, have as much effect in 

 spreading a taste for rural and domestic architecture, as our 

 Encyclopcedia of Gardening has done for that art. It is not 

 for us to give our own opinion of the work, though we are 

 fairly entitled to do so to a certain extent, since the designs 

 which constitute by far the most important part of the book, 

 have been contributed by upwards of seventy different indivi- 

 duals, including some of the first, and, in our opinion, the 

 very first, of British architects. We must say, we have been 

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