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operation, very much depends upon the manner of conducting it. In econo- 

 mising your time; in employing your children thus usefully; in the difference 

 between placing your compost in an elevated situation, or where it can receive 

 the dropping and urine from your cows, all these considerations must be 

 turned to account. 



" Again, how often do you complain that your lands are sterile, from the 

 heaps of stones which for ages have accumulated; yet count the stones on a 

 quarter of an acre capable of being easily carried, and it will soon be evident 

 what might have been effected by your ancestors during the last half century 

 had they made the most moderate but persevering exertions. Commence 

 yourselves and you will very soon find that by removing one stone each day, 

 or six in each week, not only will the improvement of your fields, before a year 

 has elapsed, astonish your careless neighbours, but exceed your most sanguine 

 expectations; and it is no exaggeration to say, that more might thus be effected 

 in one season than had been done in the twenty preceding by those who pro- 

 bably wasted two or three hours of the twenty-four in abusing the unprofit- 

 ableness of the lands in their occupation, whilst the idea of actively employing 

 the proper remedy was forgotten." 



It may be gratifying to our correspondent, Mr. Pringle, to 

 know that the instructions for cropping gardens are those given 

 by him in the Gard. Mag. for 1838, and copied into our Cottage 

 Manual, of which several thousands have been circulated, and 

 also by our permission into Wilds's Guide to Cottagers. A Hor- 

 ticultural Societj^, or Cottage Garden Society, established in 

 the Highlands of Scotland by a few such individuals as the 

 author of this work, would probably do much to improve the 

 gardens of cottagers. 



Art. II. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agricidture, Botany^ 

 Rural Architecture, 8^c., lately published, with some Account of 

 those considered the more interesting. 



Report on the present State of Whitjield Farniy and the Plan proposed for im- 

 proving it. To winch is added a Letter to the Tenants of Philip Pusey, Esq., 

 M.P. for Berkshire. By John Morton. Pamph. 12ino, pp. 110, with a 

 coloured plan. London, 1840. 



This little work may be considered as a supplement to Mr, Morton's 

 Treatise on iSof/s, reviewed in our Vol. XIV. p. 131., and which has been so 

 favourably received by the public, and highly spoken of by Dr. Buckland and 

 other celebrated geologists. The letter to the tenants of Philip Pusey, Esq., 

 M.P., should be read by every landlord, as well as by every tenant. We shall 

 be glad to hear of Mr. Morton trying Hart's improved' Berkshire plough, 

 noticed in this Magazine, p. 170.; and we should also like to see revived a 

 three-wheeled plough, invented many years ago in Scotland, which by means 

 of two wheels in the furrow totally prevented all friction on the lower side of 

 the sole. 



On increasing the Depth of Soils. By Cuthbert William Johnson, Esq. Pamph. 

 8vo, pp. 74. London, 1840. 



A variety of matters are here collected together which may be read with 

 advantage by the practical farmer, and more especially by those who have not 

 an opportunity of perusing the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, or the Journal 

 of the English Agricultural Society. 



