792 A DOMESTIC COLONY. 
more than thirty years old, whereas the Swedish are more than three 
hundred, aUhough only two feet square. England is a commercial 
country, a small profit and quick return is all that is wanted. The 
shopkeeper huys sugar at six-pence per pound, and sells it again at 
six-pence halfpenny ; he buys his butter at a shilling, and sells it 
again for thirteen-pence, he thereby turns his money fifty -two times 
in the year : the farmer turns his once a year, whilst the forest- 
planter can scarcely turn his once in his life. Nevertheless, I think 
nothing can answer better, if a nobleman or gentleman wishes to 
leave a fine property to his family, than to plant all his loaste lands 
with forest trees. 
J. HOWDEN. 
RURAL AFFAIRS. 
ARTICLE XV.— A DOMESTIC NATIVE COLONY. 
" Sweet are the uses of adversity." — Shakespeare. 
*' Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter. — Bacok. 
" Optimum elige, suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo." 
It is not usual for female correspondents to appear in your pages ; 
but this fact does not deter me from projDosing to venture, where I 
feel certain to meet with the same polite attention which is extended 
to all the contributors to the Horticultural Register. I have been 
a subscriber to, and reader of your meritorious publication ever since 
its commencement, and am anxious that it should continue to please 
its (I hope nmnerous) readers. Whether numerous or few, however, 
they are not confined to gardeners : — many families in different sta- 
tions, and in various occupations, doubtless anticipate mth eagerness 
the first of every month, in the hope of perusing much that is valu- 
able and interesting in your periodical ; and I am not without hope 
that the little sketch I have drawn of an industrious family of my 
acquaintance, will be found to possess some claims to the latter qual- 
ity ; and as the Hort. Reg. professes to treat of rural affairs, it was 
conjectured that the present communication would not be deemed 
irrelevant. 
In this taxed and expensive country, now too, that population 
pours its floods upon the land, in such a mighty stream, as nearly to 
obstruct all roads to competency ; now that to live implies a struggle : 
