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Domestic Notices : — England. 



and the mosses of Sweden and Norway may be grown on the mountains. 

 Young gardeners and farmers who can command 100/. or 200/. cannot, all 

 circumstances considered, emigrate to a better country. There may be better 

 bargains got in Canada, and more money to be made there, but the severe 

 winters are great drawbacks to rural occupation and enjoyment. We are 

 happy to think that one very excellent gardener, Mr. Trotter, late gardener 

 to J. T. Brook, Esq., of Flitwick, Mrs. Trotter, and their two sons and two 

 daughters, sailed for New Zealand on the 13th of the present month. May, 

 1843. — Cond. 



Art. III. Domestic Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



3'//£ Botanical Sectioii of the Tower Street Mutual Instruction Society hold 

 their meetings one evening weekly, at a quarter past 8 o'clock. The prospec- 

 tus is before us of twenty-four Lectures on Botany, the subscription for the 

 whole of which is only one shilling. The lecture room is in No. 1 6. Great 

 Tower Street, and there are several gardeners who attend, though nothing 

 like so many as would do so were they aware of the very moderate charges. 

 Meetings for discussion are held on the evenings of every Monday and Wed- 

 nesday. The lecturer on Botany is Mr. Robinson, and there are above 

 twelve other gentlemen who lecture on Chemistry, Entomologj', Geometry, 

 Drawing, Agriculture, Domestic Economy, and a great variety of other sub- 

 jects. This Institution was commenced in January 1836, and only requires 

 to be known to obtain the support of the neighbourhood. — Cond. 



Warping Lands on the Thames. — Some months ago, one of the banks which 

 protect Crayford Level, near Dartford, from the overflowing of high tides 

 gave way, and the river flowed over several acres during sixteen tides, leaving 

 a deposit of neai'ly an eighth of an inch in thickness of rich sediment every 

 tide. Those lands are now let at a rental of from 20s. to 30^. per acre per 

 annum, and I have no hesitation in saying that I would engage to make them 

 worth three times that rental within eight or ten years, at a trifling expense. 

 1 know lands on the banks of the river Parrott, in Somersetshire, let at 

 four guineas per acre, but the sediment floating up and down that river is not 

 to be compared to the rich manure of the Thames, which takes the wash of 

 London. — James Easton. 80. Blachjriars Road, May 10. 1843. 



Draining. — The Duke of Hamilton has been making considerable improve- 

 ments in the neighbourhood of Garstang for some years past, not only in 

 draining but in the fences and water courses. All the unsightly fences and 

 water courses have been removed, and new ones made. Some may be seen, I 

 suppose, half a mile long, and the fields made about 17 rods wide, parallel 

 to each other, which gives them a very striking effect when viewed from a 

 distance. Cross fences are also made at proper distances with great judgement, 

 and there is no doubt that a great quantity of land will be brought into culti- 

 vation by these improvements which has lain uncultivated for ages. The fol- 

 lowing is the plan of the fences 

 and water courses. Fig. 80. a 

 is the water course into which 

 the turf drains run ; b, the 

 thorns or hedge ; the bank is 

 raised a very little above the 

 field when the thorns are plant- 

 ed, as shown in the figure. 

 When the thorns have stood 

 about a year, the angle c is 



sloped down to the thorn, as Tig. m. Section of the Hedge and mtch Fences at Garstang, 



shown by the dotted line. The reason of the bank beins raised at the first 



