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adequate or remunerating advantage, either by a more rapid growth of the 

 tree or an improvement in the quality of the timber, is obtained, sufficient to 

 compensate for the great additional expense incurred, without taking into 

 account the difficulty in adopting it in many districts well adapted to the 

 rearing of wood, or where plantations are made upon that extensive scale 

 now so prevalent throughout the kingdom. In regard to the statistics of the 

 various trees described, the author has been obliged, from the restricted 

 extent of his volume, to confine his remarks within narrow limits ; this he 

 cannot but regret, as he is aware the omission must prove a disappointment to 

 many of his readers ; it is, however, satisfactory to be able to refer them to 

 so able a work as the ' Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum,' in which the 

 statistical information respecting its various contents are generally full and 

 satisfactory; Lauder's edition of 'Gilpin's Forest Scenery' also contains 

 much interesting information of this kind, respecting the various trees noticed 

 and enumerated in the pages of that delightful work." 



Scotch Farming in the Lothians. A Letter addressed to the Editor of the 

 " Manchester Guardian? By Robert Hyde Greg. Pamph. 8vo, pp. 33. 

 London, 1842. 



Every landed proprietor who wishes to make the most of his land, and to 

 raise the character, and increase the comforts, of the tenantry and the la- 

 bourers on his estate, ought to peruse this shilling pamphlet. We are aware 

 that much of it will not be believed by proprietors, managers, and farmers, 

 who have not been in Northumberland or Scotland, and we also know that 

 there are a number of English proprietors who prefer having their lands held 

 at will by their tenants. To these this pamphlet will be of no use, for the first 

 step to improvement is the granting of leases of reasonable length. Necessity 

 is the mother of improvement, as well as of invention, and we are much mis- 

 taken if the political changes which are taking place do not advance agriculture 

 at a railroad pace. The following quotation will give an idea of the contents 

 of the pamphlet : — 



" Considering the fate of the Corn Laws to be sealed, and all unequal 

 protection to the landed interest about to be withdrawn, 1 was anxious, 

 both as a landlord and a farmer, to prepare for the state of things which such 

 a change might introduce ; more particularly as a farmer, to prepare myself, 

 by increased skill and economy in the management of my farm, for the 

 keener competition and lower prices which the free introduction of foreign 

 agricultural produce must establish. 



" I may, perhaps, just mention that my farm is in the county of Hertford, 

 and consists of 500 acres. It is conducted on the best system current 

 twenty or twenty-five years ago, very superior to any thing in these parts, 

 and my bailiff was brought up in the Lothians; but aware that we might have 

 been stationary, whilst elsewhere, as in Scotland, a rapid progress had been 

 going on, I determined to ascertain the actual state of farming where it had 

 made the greatest advance, and, with this view, desired him to meet me at 

 Edinburgh on the first of July last. Owing to the kindness of a friend, who 

 understood farming well himself, and who had an extensive personal ac- 

 quaintance with the farmers, I was enabled to visit a number of farms of 

 various descriptions, and to communicate with the farmers themselves in 

 freedom and confidence. 



" It would be uninteresting to the general reader, were I even competent 

 to do it, which I am not, to enter minutely into details : those capable of 

 understanding them should visit the country ; and, whether they do so on a 

 tour of profit or amusement, they will be amply repaid. 



" The general conviction which remains upon my mind is this, that, with a 

 system equal to that of the Lothians established throughout England, land- 

 lords might receive double rents, farmers be rich and prosperous, and the 

 country be rendered, for two generations, independent of foreign supplies, 



