610 Lance's Cottage Farmer. 



Lance^ Edwar^d Jarman, Agriculturist and Land Surveyor, 

 Lewisham, Kent, Author of the " Golden Farmer," and 

 several parts of " Baxter's Library of Agricultural and 

 Horticultural Knowledge: " The Cottage Farmer; contain- 

 ing plain Listructions for the Management and Cultivation 

 of Land divided into suitable Allotments, so as to be 

 made beneficial alike to the Labourer and the Landlord. 

 Pamphlet, 8vo, 30 pages, 2 plates. London, Dean and 

 Munday, and Ridgway, 1833. Intended for distribution 

 amongst the labourers who have field-gardens, or small 

 plots of farming ground ; and dedicated to the Agricul- 

 tural Employment Institution. 



A most cheap shilling's worth. The principles advocated 

 in, and argued on facts contained in, the work are, that an 

 increased application of the knowledge of the sciences which 

 acquaint us with the processes of nature, and with the struc- 

 ture and physiology of natural bodies, added to an increased 

 application of manual labour, will, in farming and gardening 

 especially, enable us to excite the resources of nature to such 

 an increase in the production as will well repay the increased 

 outlay of attention. The author dwells much on manures ; 

 and the greater fitness of this or that kind, according to the 

 soil to which it is to be applied : he enumerates several avail- 

 able kinds of manure, and urges the scrupulous accumulation 

 and determinate application of every atom of manure of every 

 kind. We think that the kinds of plants which he recom- 

 mends to the cottage farmer's attentive and diligent cultivation 

 are those best worth his attention ; and that the author's hints 

 to him for the fullest appropriation of the crops, and of all his 

 means, when produced, are worthy regard and observance. 

 " Part ii.," or chapter ii., has this title : — " Hints for the 

 farmer who wishes to be independent, and to satisfy all the 

 wants of a family from off the land he cultivates ; showing, 

 also, how little land is wanted for that purpose." The title of 

 " part" or chapter iii. is : — " Hints on the employment of 

 the poor, and the want of a better knowledge of nature's 

 laws ; or theory of agriculture : in accordance with the prin- 

 ciples of Lord Karnes;" whose writings are so much regarded 

 by Mr. Lance, that he has prefixed an exquisite lithograph of 

 that author to (and it is worth the price of) his pamphlet, in 

 grateful acknowledgment, as Mr. Lance states, of " having 

 had his mind directed into an enquiry on the constituency of 

 earths, and of vegetable food, from reading the works of this 

 truly great man." In the second plate, which seems to be 

 one used in Mr. Lance's Golden Farmer, there are figured 

 the " female bloom of the hop," " male bloom of the hop ; " 



