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Wales, particularly those who may have large families. T am certain the home 

 government would take this view, were the legislature here to take it into 

 consideration ; and they would see that no emigrant is more valuable than the 

 small farmer of England and Scotland. No man works harder, or brings up 

 his children in a more industrious manner. Were encouragement given by 

 the government in the payment of passage money, hundreds of small farmers 

 .would emigrate with their families. Thus, young men in the colony would 

 be provided with industrious wives, and landed proprietors with good over- 

 seers ; and the community would be supplied with the necessaries of life from 

 their farms. These are the settlers to whom we must look for examples of 

 good moral conduct. Their offspring will be trained to such conduct through- 

 out the colony, and their influence will be every where felt." 



" In England, a number of architects and land-surveyors, who have been 

 capable of giving designs for mansions and other buildings, and of surveying 

 and drawing the plan of extensive land estates, have undertaken to give de- 

 signs for the embellishment of parks, pleasure-grounds, and gardens, in what 

 they pretend to call the new improved style of landscape-gardening ; but they 

 have mostly been ignorant of the profession of horticulture, either as to the 

 practical or scientific principles of the profession. Men who have no know- 

 ledge of the cultivation of the earth, to fit it for the healthful growth of trees 

 or plants, cannot be supposed qualified to know in what soil they should 

 be planted. Men who scarcely know the name of a tree, exclusively of a ^ew 

 such as are known to any common farmer, have had the presumption to set 

 up as landscape-gardeners ; merely, I suppose, because they could draw a 

 pretty plan or map, and print a splendid title. It is beyond my comprehen- 

 sion, how such men, who must have had a liberal education, can presume to 

 give designs for a new creation of objects, fit for the pencil of the landscape- 

 painter, who have no knowledge of the trees proper to be planted, which 

 would, in connexion with other objects, produce an harmonious effect. Such 

 persons must entertain an idea tliat the profession of a landscape-gardener 

 requires little knowledge, art, or skill in its attainment. I can assure such 

 vain pretenders, if this is their opinion, that the profession of a gardener 

 requires a great deal of knowledge, of art, and of skill ; and that there are 

 principles in the profession which render sucli persons incompetent to act as 

 landscape-gardeners." 



" It has often struck me, that horticulturists deserve greater praise for their 

 exertions than any other class of professional men ; for, without a classical 

 education, as many professional men have had, they have worked their way 

 through every difficulty, until gardening has been raised by them to such ex- 

 cellence, that it has become the admiration and delight of kings, nobles, and 

 men of the highest attainments in learning. It is my opinian, therefore, that 

 a professional gardener, who has been taught land-surveying and mapping, 

 landscape-painting, and a little knowledge in architecture, and who also 

 takes great delight in pastoral poetry, and landscape scenery, must have much 

 more comprehensive knowledge for entering upon the studies of landscape- 

 gardening than either an architect or land-surveyor, who knows nothing of 

 horticulture. I therefore would recommend to land proprietors to give a 

 decided preference to landscape-gardeners who also profess horticulture." 



As specimens of what may be effected in landscape-gardening 

 and suburban residences by taste, wealth, and perseverance, in 

 the neighbourhood of Sydney, Mr. Shepherd gives, by per- 

 mission of the proprietors, " a detailed description of improve- 

 ments made on two of the most highly finished places of resi- 

 dence and ground in the colony. These are, Elizabeth Bay, 

 the intended seat of Alexander M'Leay, Esq. ; and Lyndhurst, 

 the residence of Dr. Bowman, both on the banks of the river." 



