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little ailments, a? a father would his children — giving advice in mat- 
ters concerning their welfare, — assisting those who were industrious, 
with the loan of small suras, without interest, to purchase a cow, pig, 
&c.,— and giving small premiums to those who kept the neatest and 
cleanliest cottages. These proceedings would stimulate the most 
indolent, to industry, and gain for the proprietors, the love, the res- 
pect, and the gratitude, of all around him ; and above all, the satisfac- 
tion in his own breast, of having done his dvity. 
Happy is that man who can retire to rest ^vith a conscious feeling, 
that he has used all his interest, influence, power, and means, (com- 
mitted but for a short time to his care,) for the benefit, comfort, and 
happiness, of his fellow men. 
The well-disposed proprietors, might set to work industrious 
unemployed labourers, in many ways, and by so doing, improve and 
enhance the value of their estates ; — such as road-making, draining, 
fencing, planting, thinning, felling, &c. &c. Each of these would 
require a longer discussion, of the advantages which would arise from 
them, than the pages of your Magazine would admit of. 
In conclusion : — let the land-owner ever remember, (if any such 
should honour my humble communication with a perusal,) that the 
wealth he possesses was given him, as much for the benefit of his 
fellow men, as for his own immediate good. And further, when we 
look at a building or geometrical elevation, the horizontal lines are all 
of course parallel ; when the same is viewed in perspective, no two 
of them run on the same plane, or are pai-allel to each other, but they 
all radiate to the same point : exactly so with man. We are all 
travelling on different levels, making for the same distant point, and 
whether high or low, rich or poor, the grand search of all our lives b 
happiness ! Therefore let it never be forgotten, that, 
" True happiness, when understood, 
"Is only labouring to do good !" 
I remain, Gentlemen, 
Yours, very respectfully, 
London, Nov. 25, 1831. A Bricklayers' Labourer. 
Article VIII. — On the Cultivation of the Camellia, and 
its varieties. By An Amateur. 
Gentlemen, 
The Camellia, is justly esteemed one of the finest, if not 
actually the finest, of our exot ics, and indeed, there are few of the beau- 
teous denizens of the greenhouse and conservatory, that can lay equal 
claim to our attention. Unlike most of its compeers, this lovely genus. 
