65S Summary View of the Progress of Gardening, 



be recurred to again by the same experienced gardener, in the 

 course of a series of letters which he is now kindly preparing 

 for us, by the permission of his employer, Lady Rolle. Our 

 report on the new culinary productions of the past year will 

 appear in January. 



Agriculture. — Necessity, which is at the foundation of most 

 kinds of improvements, promises a great reformation in this art. 

 We refer to the number of Journals, and other publications on 

 the subject, which have appeared in the course of the vear, not- 

 withstanding the general stagnation of commercial literature. 

 The circumstance of Mr. Smith of Deanston intending to settle 

 in the neighbourhood of London, as an agricultural engineer, is 

 a favourable omen ; for, doubtless, he would not have taken such 

 a step, had he not calculated on being consulted by many of the 

 extensive landed proprietors of England. " The tariff," a cor- 

 respondent observes, " seems to have had the effect of half-para- 

 lysing the wits of some of the farmers, and of doubly stimulating 

 those of others. It must lead to good, and I am much mistaken 

 if the farmers of the next generation will not be a very dif- 

 ferent class of men from those of the present. They must 

 know something of the inside of a book, as well as of the 

 outside of an ox." Whatever improvement takes place in 

 the condition of formers will, we trust, be extended to their 

 labourers. Our opinion as to the amelioration of both is given 

 briefly in p. 636. We were much gratified, while in the 

 South of England, to hear of one gentleman in Cornwall, 

 Sir William Molesworth, inviting his tenants to meet to- 

 gether, and joining them, and getting his gardener, Mr. Cor- 

 bett, to deliver lectures to them in his presence, on vegetable 

 culture, which lectures are reported in the local newspapers, 

 and do great credit to Mr. Corbett ; and of another proprietor 

 in the North of Devon, Lord Clinton, establishing the Torring- 

 ton Farmers' Club, at the monthly meetings of which His Lord- 

 ship presides, and is at the expense of printing such papers 

 read at them as are thought worthy of that distinction, in a 

 pamphlet which appears occasionally. Among these papers are 

 some by His Lordship's very scientific gardener, Mr. Cato, who 

 is not only an excellent horticulturist, but has a perfect know- 

 ledge of fanning as practised in the best districts in Scotland. 



Domestic Economy and Bee Culture. — We are rather sur- 

 prised that Fuller's ice-preservers, noticed in our Volume for 

 1839, p. 655., and found to be a great saving of labour and of 

 ice by all that we have ever heard of having tried them, has not 

 come into more ircneral use. Mr. AV r iirhton's articles on bees in 

 this and preceding Volumes, and his very interesting treatise 

 on their management (see p. 322.), will, we hope, induce a 

 number of gardeners to try his improved Polish hive. 



