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rence to architectural design, is mean and commonplace. We 

 were the more surprised at this, because, from Mr. M'Intosh's 

 remarks on the " entrance to the kitchen or culinary garden," 

 in his New and Improved Practical Gardener, p. 27., we were led 

 to expect something very different. The chimneys are not, as 

 usual, carried up in the back wall, but very judiciously behind 

 in the outer or lower wall of the back sheds, in order to prevent 

 the soot, which the coal here produces in immense quantities, 

 from dropping on the glass. As far as we recollect, there was 

 not a pond in the centre of the garden, which is always desirable, 

 in order that the water in summer may be warmed by the sun, 

 to the same temperature as the soil. The great importance of 

 this has been admirably pointed out in our Volume for 1840, 

 and will be recurred to in a future page of this article. The 

 crops, both in the open garden and in the forcing-houses, were 

 excellent, and the order and keeping unexceptionable. The 

 design of the flower-garden to the south of the kitchen-garden 

 will, no doubt, be reconsidered. 



Aug. 5. — Dalkeith and Dalhousie Castle to Edinburgh. Walked 

 to some magnificent viaducts for facilitating the transit of coals 

 to Edinburgh by railroad, which have been erected by the Duke 

 of Buccleugh ; and we cannot help expressing the great satisfac- 

 tion that we felt at seeing the various public works at Dalkeith 

 and Granton erected by this nobleman. They will not only 

 greatly benefit his own property, but prove beneficial to the 

 public. Would that His Grace were imbued with similar ideas 

 to ours on the subject of increasing the comforts of the labourers 

 on his extensive estates, by improving their dwellings, adding 

 gardens to them, providing schools for educating their children, 

 and taking care, as in Germany, that they were all educated, 

 and bearing in mind the wants of the aged and infirm ! Would 

 that His Grace had the same ideas as the Rev. Dr. Gilly, and 

 the late Rev. William Gilpin, on the subject of improving the 

 condition of the cottager ! 



"Suppose," says Dr. Gilly, "70/. to be the average cost of a 

 substantially good cottage, will the comfort of a faithful dependant 

 and his family be heavily bought at this price ? [The average of 

 what Lord Roseberry's cottages have cost.] Why is the hap- 

 piness of rural life to be nothing more than a romance, a poetical 

 image, when it is in the power of so many land-proprietors to 

 realise all that is imagined of smiling gardens, and snug habita- 

 tions> and contented cottagers ? The true beauty of a landscape, 

 as Gilpin has said in his Forest Scenery, consists, not ' in the 

 mere mixture of colours and forms, but in the picture of human 

 happiness presented to our imagination and affections in visible 

 and unequivocal signs of comfort.' 



"Oh, when will the law of love be felt in its supremacy? 



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