Rotherwas-C. Bodenham, Esq. individuals whose habitations are under- Stoke Edith Park-E. T. Foley, Esq. valued for the purpose of avoiding a Longworth Court-Sir, E, F. Stanhope, fair share of taxation. We see no rea- Bart. son for not supposing but that the same inequalities exist with respect to the real value and amount rated as in other counties; the same management, the result of a studied system, well understood, has of course extended its effects to Gloucestershire, though very possibly not one person in the list for this county is conscious he is not rated in accordance with the act of Parliament. HANTS. By the official [returns there are in this county The principal dwellings consist of Magnificent seat, lawn, plantations, flour. ishing oaks, and beautiful prospects; rated as worth 807. per annum. Garnons-Sir J. G. Cotterell, Bart. Hereford Palace rated at 60l. per annum, 87. 10s. inhabited house-duty, for the palace of a mitred prelate ! The rates in this county (one of the most beautiful in Britain) of the princi Hurstbourne Park-Earl of Ports-pal residences are astoundingly low. -Does your lease contain a covenant "for the tenant to pay for repairs, or to pay the insurance?"-These are well known questions and familiar sounds to the ears of the appellants, rated not only up to the rack rental, but beyond. Is According to the official returns there care taken to enforce this doctrine in all are in this country cases? Undoubtedly not; there are exceptions in every county and parish in England and Wales, and in no county more so than in the county of Hereford; which the parties exempted are the best and the cases exempted are those in able to pay the full amount awarded by the act of Parliament; namely, upon the rack-rental, upon the full and real value. (To be continued.) ། GARDEN SEEDS. It does not suit, me to keep a seedI, some time ago, notified my inten- shop, and to retail seeds by the small tion of selling garden seeds this winter; quantity; but to make up packages, and I am now prepared to do it. Those each sufficient for a garden for the year, who have read my writings on AGRI- and to sell that package for a fixed sum CULTURE and GARDENING, and particu- of money. When I was driven to Long larly my " ENGLISH GARDENER," | Island by SIDMOUTH's dungeon bill, will have perceived that I set forth, and when the Hampshire parsons and with much pains, the vast importance SIDMOUTH and CASTLEREAGH chuckled of being extremely careful with regard at the thought of my being gone to to the seeds which one sows: and, as mope away my life in melancholy, in to which matter, there are two things the United States; and when the fato be attended to; first, the genuineness mous traveller, Mr. FEARON, brought of the seeds; and next, as to their home word, that I was whiling away my soundness. The former is the more life in a dilapidated country house, the important point of the two; for it is a paths to which were over-run with great deal better to have no plants at thistles and brambles; when Mr. FEAall, than to have things come up, and, RON, that accurate observer, exclaimed, at the end of a month or two, to find in the language of his brother SoLothat you have got a parcel of stuff, not MON, "Lo! it was all grown over with at all resembling that which you thought "thorns, and nettles covered the face you were about to have. Those who" thereof, and the post and rail fence have read my Gardening Book, chap. 4," thereof was broken down;" when will want very little more to convince Mr. FEARON, in the fulnees of his comthem of the importance of this matter. passion, was thus exclaiming, I, though I have always taken great delight in he found me in a pair of Yankee having perfect plants of every descrip- trousers not worth a groat, was pretion; but, to get into the way of raising paring to sell seeds in a house good and true garden seeds, requires at NEW YORK, for which I gave fourthat you be settled upon some sufficient teen hundred dollars a year. In short, space of ground for several successive I imported a great quantity of seeds years; and it has been my lot to live from London, which I sold principally under a Government, which, if you take in the following manner: the liberty to differ from it in opinion, has taken care to prevent you, by hook or by crook, from being settled in any place, except one of its prisons, for any considerable length of time. Since, however, it, in a lucky hour, had the wisdom to pass PEEL'S BILL, it has been rather less rummaging; though it certainly meant well towards me in the year 1831. I have, however, been suffered to remain long enough at KENSINGTON to bring the seeds of a good many plants to what I deem perfection, and others nearly to that state; and I have taken a little farm in Surrey, partly for the purpose of raising garden seeds upon a greater scale than I was able to do it at KENSINGTON; this year I have raised a considerable quantity of seeds, which I now offer for sale in the following manner, and on the following terms. I had little boxes made, into each of which I put a sufficiency of each sort of seeds for a gentelman's garden for the year. The large seeds were in paper bags, and the smaller seeds in papers. In the box along with the seeds, I put a printed paper containing a list of the names of the several seeds, and against each name the number, from numbers one to the end: then, there were corresponding numbers marked upon the bags and the parcels. So that, to know the sort of seed, the purchaser had nothing to do but to look at the numbers on the parcels and then to look at the list. Many of these boxes of seeds went as far as LOWER CANADA to the north, and into the FLORIDAS, to NEW ORLEANS, and even to the West India islands, to the south; and the net proceeds were amongst the means of enabling me to prance about the country; amongst the means of enabling me to lead a pleasant life; of enabling me to stretch my long arm across the Atlantic, and to keep up the thumping upon Corruption, which I did to some tune. I intend to dispose of my seeds in the same manner now, except that I shall use coarse linen bags instead of boxes. The several parcels of seeds will be put up either in paper bags or paper parcels; and a printed list with the names and numbers will be prepared; and, then, the parcels and the list will be put into the linen bag, and sewed up, and will be ready to be sent away to any person who may want it. not, therefore, be surprised, that I most earnestly exhort all those who buy my seeds, to buy my book, too, and even then they will not have half so much to pay as if they had to purchase the seeds of a seedsman. I have only one fear upon this occa sion, and that is, that gentlemen's gar deners, who are in the habit of dealing with seedsmen, and who are apt to adhere too literally to that text of Scrip ture, which says that "he who soweth abundantly shall reap abundantly;" but, begging their pardon, this does not mean covering the ground with the seeds, which, though it may produce A bag for a considerable garden; a abundant reaping to the seedsman, is garden of the better part of an acre, far from having that tendency with reperhaps, will be sold for twenty-five gard to the crop. Thick sowing is, shillings; and for a smaller garden, indeed, injurious in three ways: first, for twelve shillings and sixpence. These it is a waste of seed and of money, of seeds, if bought at the shop of a seeds- which it is actually a flinging away of man, would come to more than three both second, it makes work in the times the money; and so they ought: thinning out of the plants: third, the for the seedsman has his expensive plants will never be so fine if they shop to keep; has his books to come up thick. Therefore, in my keep; has his credit to give, and has Gardening Book, chapter 4, beginning his seeds to purchase with his ready at paragraph 85, I take very great pains money. While, therefore, I have a to give instructions for thin sowing; right to proceed in my manner, he does and, if every one who cultivates a garnothing wrong. By the lists, which I den could see the regularity, the cleanpublish below, the reader will perceive ness, and the beauty, of my seed beds, that, to the garden seeds I have added never should we again see a parcel of the seeds of several annual flowers. seeds flung promiscuously over the They are not of very rare kinds; but ground. It is probable, that three hunthey are all very pretty; and, even these dred cauliflower seeds will lie in a thim flower seeds alone, if purchased at a ble; and if you want three hundred seedsman's, would come, and ought to plants, it is better to sow these three come, to pretty nearly one half of the hundred seeds in a proper manner, than money which I charge for the whole. to fling twenty thousand seeds over the Of some of the sorts of seeds the pur-same space of ground. You must cut chaser will think the quantity small; the superfluous seeds up with a hoe, or and, of these the cauliflower is one; but, it must be a thundering garden that requires more than three hundred cauliflower plants; and, if carefully sowed, agreeably to the directions in my Gardening Book, the seed which I put up is more than sufficient for any gentleman's garden; and I will pledge myself for the soundness of every individual seed. In the small bag, the quantity is in proportion to the price. Authors always want people to read their books; or, to purchase them at least. The reader will pull them out with your hand; and, small as they are, and insignificant as you may think their roots to be, they rob and starve one another, even before they get into rough leaf. I know very well, that it requires a great deal more time to sow a bed of a hundred feet long, and with cabbages, for instance; a great deal more time to sow it in drills, and to put the seed in thinly, than to fling the seed thickly ground and just rake it in; but, look at the subsequent operations; and you over the will find that, in the end, this "sowing ground by the middle, or towards the abundantly" costs ten times the time latter end, of May. Then dig a piece and the labour which are required by of ground deep, and make it extremely the method of sowing pointed out in fine upon the top, and put out the little my book. Therefore, let no man ima- plants in rows two feet apart, and two gine, that to have a plentiful crop a feet apart in the row; for, though not great quantity of seed is necessary. bigger than a thread, each plant will When, indeed, you have reason to fear multiply itself into a considerable tuft that the seed is not sound, and when you before the middle of July; and then cannot obtain that which you know to they will begin to bear, and they will be sound, it may be prudent to throw in keep on bearing as long as the hard frosts great parcels of it in order to have the keep away. The very runners which best chance to get some plants; but, proceed from these plants, will take hap-hazard work like this ought root, blow, and have ripe fruit, during to be avoided, if possible; and, at the first autumn. When the bearing is any rate, I pledge myself, for the over, cut off all the runners, clear the soundness of all my seed; I pledge ground close up to the tufts, and let the myself that, if properly sowed, every tufts remain to bear another year, when seed that I sell shall grow. Thus far their produce is prodigious. But, then as to my seeds in general. I have you must grub them up, for they so now to speak of one sort of seed, multiply their offsets, and so fill the which, as that horrible old Whig, ground with their roots, that they almost Sir Robert Walpole, said of his bribes, cease to bear if they remain longer. So "is sold only at my shop." This that you must have a new plantation from is the seed of the CISALPINE straw-seed every year; and the seed you may berry: this strawberry, unlike all others save yourself, by squeezing the pulp of that I ever heard of, produces its like dead-ripe strawberries in water, which from the seed; is raised with the great-sends the seed to the bottom of the waest facility, bears most abundantly, and ter you skim off the pulp, and drain keeps bearing until the hard frosts come. away the water, then put the seed out The seeds are so small that a little in the sun to dry, and then put it up pinch of them between the finger and and preserve it for sowing in the winter. the thumb is sufficient for a very large There is a red sort and a white sort, garden; and the method of rearing the which you may keep separate or sow plants is this about the first week of them and plant them promiscuously. February, or it may be a little later, fill And, now, to do justice to Sir CHARLES with fine earth, to within about an inch WOLSLEY, who is my teacher as to this of the top, a flower-pot from twelve to piece of knowledge, and at whose house, fifteen inches over; take the little pinch at WOLSLEY PARK, I saw, in September of seed and scatter it very thinly over last, the finest dishes of strawberries the top of the earth; then put some very that I ever had seen in the whole course fine earth over the seed a quarter of an of my life. They were served up in a inch thick, or rather less. Set the pot in mixed state, some red and some white a green-house, or in the window of any and the taste and fragrance were equal room where the sun comes, and give wa- to the beauty. Sir CHARLES was so ter very carefully, and very gently, as good as to make his gardener save me occasion may require. When the warm a considerable quantity of the seed, weather comes, the pot should be set out which, by the bursting of the paper, of doors in a warm place when there is came mixed; and, therefore, the parcels no heavy rain, and should be taken in at of this strawberry seed, which I shall night if there be any fear of frost. To- put into my packages, will, the purwards the end of April, the pot may be chaser will bear in mind, be some of set out of doors altogether; and, small the white strawberry and some of the as the plants will still be, they will be red. After this long story about garden fit to be planted out in the natural seeds, which, however, is not so exe : be .... crably stupid as the impudent babble | 36. Pea-Early-frame. ...... parcels; once more observing, that a 42. Squash (from America, great valarge package of seeds will be sold for riety). twenty-five shillings, and a small one 43. Strawberry-Cisalpine. for twelve shillings and sixpence. A 44. Turnip-Early-Garden. direction may be sewed on the package in a minute, and it can be sent to any FLOWER SEEDS. part of the country by the coach, or 45. Canterbury Bells. No. KITCHEN GARDEN SEEDS. 1. Asparagus. 2. Bean-Broad, or Windsor, 3. ......Long-pod. 4. ......Early Masagan. 48. Clarkia, (very beautiful). 51. Larkspur-Dwarf Rocket. Kidney (or French) Searlet 56. Stock-White Wall-flower. 10. ........Speckled. 11. Beet-Red. 12. Brocoli-White. 57. Scarlet, ten-week. 58. Mignionette. 59. Sweet-william. 60. Sweet Pea. 61. Venus's Looking-glass. 62. Virginia Stock. 63. Wall-flower. FIELD SEEDS. SWEDISH TURNIP SEED.-Any quan tity under 10lbs. 9d. a pound; and any quantity above 10lbs. and under 50lbs. Sd. a pound; any quantity above 50lbs. 8d. a pound; above 100lbs. 7d. A parcel of seed may be sent to any part of the kingdom; I will find proper bags, will send it to any coach or van or wagon, and have it booked at my expense; but the money must be paid at my shop before the seed be sent away; in consideration of which I have made due allowance in the price. If the quantity be small, any friend can call and get it for a friend in the country; if the quantity be large, it may be sent by me. MANGEL WURZEL SEED.-Any quan tity under 10lbs., Sd. a pound; any quantity above 10lbs, and under 50lbs., 7d. a pound; any quantity above 50lbs., 6d. a pound; any quantity above |