labourers’ dwellings. 
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room, (f) is intended for washing and cleaning in, so that the keeping 
room may always be orderly and comfortable, when the husband 
comes home to his meals even on Saturdays and washing days ; the 
good wife must always remember, that much of her domestic comfort 
will depend on this arrangement. There is a pantry (g) if a la¬ 
bourer can be said to require such a convenience; this place, how¬ 
ever, will be found very useful for holding anything by way of store 
on shelves all round, as it is well aired ; and the under part will serve 
to hold potatoes and other roots. There is a wood and coal house 
(h) and a privy ( i). The piggery and dust-hole adjoining the lat¬ 
ter arc shewn in the plan of the garden. 
In the chamber floor (Fig. 2.,) each house has abed-room for the 
man and wife {k) ; and in this room there is a press beside the fire¬ 
place for holding cloths, by way of linen closet; on the top of this 
press may be placed the books that form the small family library, 
and should they be fortunate enough to possess many books, two or 
three shelves may be placed over this. There is a large light closet for 
male children (l) and a bed closet for the female children (m) ; both of 
which have windows, and may, therefore, be well aired. A trap door 
may be made in the ceiling of the boy’s bed-room to get up to the 
garret, where apples, onions and other roots for winter use may be 
dried. 
(Fig. 3.) is a plan of one of the four gardens, each of which con¬ 
tains one rood and eighteen poles. In this plan there is the dwelling- 
house ( a ) offices, ( b ); piggery and yard, (c) ; dust-hole, ((/) ; bor¬ 
der for early potatoes, ( e) ; dwarf apple trees and currant bushes, 
(/> f) 5 mint, thyme, savoys, sage, rhubarb, parsley, &c., &c., (g g); 
border for flowers, (A); compartment for the second early crop of pota¬ 
toes, ( i ); spinage, turnips, cabbages, lettuces. Granges, and Cape 
broccoli for Summer and Autumn use, Portsmouth for Winter, and 
Knight’s self-protecting,and Sulphur for Spring &c., (k); onions, car¬ 
rots peas, beans, scarlet runners, and leeks for winter use (/), large 
compartment for potatoes (m). The Ash-leaved kidney. Fox’s Seed¬ 
ling, and Early Manly potatoes are the best for the first early crop. 
Plant them any lime from the middle of March, to the beginning of 
April, never before that time. Dig the dung into the soil in pre¬ 
ference to laying on the sets after they are planted in the drills, make 
the soil light, by mixing a good portion of sand with it. Make the 
drills from north to south, two feet apart, and plant the sets 4 inches 
from each other in the rows. The early kidneys should always bo 
planted whole, the others may be cut, but a sufficient body must be 
allowed to support the eyes during wet and drought, until they 
