twenty; 5. To raise GARDEN SEEDS in the best possible manner.

the KNIGHT-PEA now bearing fine peas fit to eat, and having fresh bloom still coming out.

The 3 and 4 are things not to be accomplished in one year; but I have a Some little time ago, a gentleman good piece of Cobbett-corn; I have called to get some bags of seeds to mangel-wurzel, turnips, and cabbages, in take to NEWFOUNDLAND. I had none; the Tullian style; I have the locust but the bags of new seeds will be ready plants for a little coppice. by the 15. of November; and the And, as to GARDEN SEEDS, I have a gardens in Newfoundland are not complete crop of all sorts, raised with planted till April. I once thought of the greatest care; placed at distances to sending a part of my seeds to be sold at keep them true to their kind, and ma- NEW YORK; but I have changed my naged properly in every respect. These mind about that. If anybody there, seeds will be sold, as they were last year, or in any part of the United States, at the shop where the Register is pub-wish to have them, there are ships lished, and they will be packed up for enough, God knows, to carry them, sale in the same manner. That is to say, unless the owners think that having in BAGS OF CANVASS. There are, all toge-anything really useful on board would ther, more than FIFTY SORTS of seeds. sink the ship. Each sort will be put into a paper-bag, There will be two sizes of bags, one and then the 50 or more paper-bags for a large garden and one for a small will be put into a canvass-bag, sewed one; the latter will contain half the up at the mouth. Each paper-bag will quantity of the former. The price of the have a number upon it; and there will former, 25s.; the price of the latter, be a printed paper in each bag, contain- 12s. 6d. ; always ready money. It is iming the names of the seeds, each name possible for any man to raise such an having a number against it, correspond- assortment of true seeds in any one garing with the number on the paper-bag den; and, if he could do it, the doing of which contains that sort of seed; and, it would cost him six times the sum that the paper-bags shall now be tied, which, I sell these seeds at. they were not last year; owing to which Any person who purchases ten bags, I was sorry to find, that some of the will pay the price of eight, and, if twenty purchasers experienced inconvenience. bags, will pay the price of fifteen; and, This mode of doing the business was if 100, pay for 60. The bags will be so attended with great success last year. strongly done up that they can be sent Many gentlemen have called at the shop with safety to any part of the kingdom or to express their satisfaction at the pro- of the world, and each bag will have on duce of the seeds, and I am sure, that it, or in it, a card, with these words, in their satisfaction, on this account, can- fac-simile of my hand-writing: "GARnot be greater than mine. This year DEN SEEDS, RAISED, in 1833, BY WM my bags will contain what they did not " COBBETT, M.P. FOR OLDHAM." And my contain last year; namely, some of the constituents will remember, that La charKNIGHT-PEA, of which, by means of rue, l'épée et la plume ne dérogent pas. the farm, I have been enabled to raise The following is the list of my seeds, a considerable quantity, and which is which contains the KNIGHT-PEA, not not only beyond all measure superior to contained in my list of last year. The all other peas, but by proper plantings, EARLY FRAME pea is the very quickest in gives you fine green peas till the hard coruing that I ever saw in my life; and frosts come. I have them now, on the I think I can defy all the world for cab20. September, as fine and fresh as ever bage seed, though I have not got it, peas were in the month of June; and even yet, into that state of perfection this pea is particularly calculated for that I shall have it next year.

hot-countries, where all other peas, that

I have ever seen, mildew, or will not grow at all, after midsummer. I have

Kidney (or French) Scarlet 56. Venus's Looking-glass.

December and part of January, in order derwood known in England in its blosto keep their jaws from the mangel- som; and then takes its seed, accuwurzel as long as possible. After the rately describes that seed, tells you how mangel-wurzel come the Swedish tur- to manage the seed, and, all along nips, and then, in May, come the cab- through, how to make it a tree or a stem bages again; and they keep on as long of underwood, and then tells you its as I please; for, I can sow cabbages in uses and how to convert it into use. mid-April, and have them loaved and This book is a real benefit to England. hard by the latter end of June. Then One of the objects of writing it was, to comes plenty of grass; that goes on till teach the best method of preparing the this time, though there may be cab-ground for planting. It teaches a mode bages, too, all the while. Now come of doing this, which was never heard of the corn tops and blades for horses and before. Fifty gentlemen are ready to cows, while we have cabbages, acorns, bear testimony to the wonderfully beneand whey for pigs and hogs. It must be allowed, that, to have cabbages, is, as Burdett profoundly and emphatically observed, with regard to property in general, to have cabbages; but, to have them, demands skill (very moderate) and care. All the skill, in the most minute detail, is to be acquired by reading my COTTAGE ECONOMY and my YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN AMERICA; and, as to the care, if a farmer will not bestow that, he deserves to have neither cabbages nor any other thing of value.

ficial effect of this mode. Another object of the book was, to render common the planting of the locust-tree for underwood as well as for timber. Many plantations are now raising their heads, caused by this book alone. Four years ago, I gave the book, and gave some seed, to Mr. Wm. Palmer, of Bollitree, near Ross. He made a fine plantation, in the month of April, 1830. A letter, which I now have, from him, written a few days ago, tells me, that the little things which were seeds in the month of April, 1829, are now trees, the average of which are seventeen feet high, and some of which are twenty feet high,

I should be very glad to have cabbage seed enough to sell as field-seeds; and I could show my reader how to set a dry summer at defiance; but I have not or more. He tells me that, in three seed to sell for these purposes this year, though I shall have plenty next. Some of iny cabbages, which are to be consumed in December and January, are savoys, which are the very best cabbages of all, and especially in winter. I have planted some Scotch cale for the same purpose, though I do not count much upon them. I put them in because I had no other plants. They are mere greens, and that is not what you want. You want a solid-headed cabbage; and I will point out the time for sowing and planting them, in order to have them very nearly all the year round, in spite of dry weather. They are very good things to eat with bacon, but much better things to make pigs into hogs, and to bring milk from the cows.

TREE-PLANTING.

Especially the Locust-Tree. My book, called "THE WOODLANDS," takes every tree and every sort of un

years more, the whole will be fit for hop-poles, and that some of them are fit for hop-poles now. When fit for hoppoles, taking them at the price of ash at Maidstone, they are worth forty-five shillings the hundred. They are four feet apart, which gives two thousand six hundred to the acre. At forty-six shillings a hundred, this amounts to fifty-nine pounds sixteen shillings an acre, for the first cutting. Though the poles will last a man's life-time, while an ash pole will last but four years, I put them at the price of ash; and then you have another cutting, next time, in five years, and twice the number of poles, because you may let two go up out of every stem. Now, this is a thing never heard of before in England. Here is a clear addition made to the value of England; but then, I defy a man to do this work, unless he see the instructions contained in this book.

Since writing the above, which was

month.

in the Register of the 5. of October, I should not be afraid to let this brutal have received other information relative scribe, including his pot-companions to this subject. I had heard that the and abettors, WooD called John, roaring locust-trees which I had planted at Bor-RUSHTON, and pis-aller PARKES, that I LEY, had just been cut down and sawed live to see these trees big enough to into boards. I, therefore, wrote to Mr. saw out coffin boards for me. The WELLS of that place, who, as I had reader will please to observe, that here heard, had the management of the mat- is a tree fourteen feet long and sixteen ter, to be so good as to send me an ac-inches diameter, very little too narrow count of the diameter. He sends me the for a coffin-lid for me. And, let it be follo ving answer, dated on the 1. of this observed, that Mr. WELLS excludes the trees near the gate; and these must be, "SIR,-The largest of the locust-trees by far, the biggest, because they stand "have not been cut down, but only such out singly, whereas the others were as were found necessary to be removed crowded up in a plantation. These "for the improvement of the other trees. trees, however, were sowed two years "Most of those cut or felled, were drawn before the others. The others make up in consequence of the plantation part of a plantation that had been put "not having been properly thinned from out little twigs about three months "time to time. Part of the trees felled before ELLENBOROUGH, GROSE, Le "have been split, and the other part sawn, so as to make park paling. A "specimen of each is sent. Beneath is a rough statement of the size of some of "the largest locust-trees which remain standing, excluding those near the 66 gate and on the lawn.

I sowed the SEEDS, from which these trees have proceeded, at Botley, in 1807. Just when the seeds were about an inch high, Mr. HESKETH, of SOUTHAMPTON, who came to me while I was weeding them, asked me what they were: and when he found that they were trecs, he said, "Ah! they may be trees in the time of your great-grand children." "What!" said I, "I," pointing my finger down to the bed, "shall live to 46 see those trees big enough to saw out "boards to make me a coffin, the lid of "which shall be in one board." He laughed at me, of course; and, just at this time, when the brutal editor of the Chronicle, who is murdering that poor old creature, who says that my race is run, I am about to plant out more locust-trees, the seeds of which I sowed last year at KENSINGTON; and

Blanc, and old BAYLEY, sent me to jail for two years, with a fine of a thousand pounds on my head, for expressing my indignation at the flogging of localmilitiamen at the town of ELY, in the heart of England, under a guard of German bayonets! GIBBS called upon them to make me a blasted example. ExCept BAYLEY, they are all under ground and rotten; the little locust twigs are become tall and beautiful trees; and I, their planter, am a member of the House of Commons, and that, too, without asking for a vote from the virtuous and sensible people who have sent me thither.

Dr. JOHNSON (writing in this very room in which I am now sitting) in some sort advised his readers not to plant trees; for that, the moment a man planted a tree "he began to think about dying." Never was there a more cowardly or more pernicious observation. Let the opinion prevail, and there never can be a tree planted in the country for children. What! Base wretch! Rake money together to give to them; but not plant a tree to grow up for them! And yet the melancholy rubbish of this man is admired. There is a coffee-house which I see out of my window, bearing the name of the Dr. JonNSON, whom I always call Dr. DREAD-DEVIL. How much better the sentiment of SHAKSPEARE, or the sentiment which he puts into the mouth of

JULIUS CESAR :-
"Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
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I have the figures somewhere now), VAUBAN'S Fortifications, and (ex officio) the famous Duke of YORK's Military Exercise and Evolutions, explaining these latter by ground-plans; and laying Let gentlemen who have land of their down fortifications from the instructions own, calculate. Every one of the above-in VAUBAN in a manner more neat than specified trees is really worth more than any that I ever saw in my life. four pounds; but any one of them can did these cause me to neglect my duty tell what they would be worth at the one single particular; a duty of price of oak, which is all spine, for there almost every hour in the day, from is not a morsel of sap in locust; and daylight till nine o'clock at night. The my book will show, from indubitable old crone of a Chronicle will call this evidence, that it never perishes, in any egotism. Be it what it may, it is true; situation whatsoever. The way to go and the statement of it is well calcuto work to have them is to sow the seed, lated to give encouragement to exertion rare the plants, and transplant them; to every young man who reads it; and and, in order to know how to do this to shame every one who is whiling away properly and effectually, they must read his time without any exertion at all. my book; and those that do not choose to read it, may let it alone.

HISTORY OF GEORGE THE
FOURTH.

Why, some of the irons do cool, and they are noue the worse for that, if they be heated well again, and hammered That the having of so many irons in the out by the aid of renovated strength. fire does not kill men, I am a pretty On the first of next month, and of good proof. It is my intention not to every month in future, until the work suffer this particular iron to cool again. be finished, I shall continue to publish I am just in the humour to hammer the numbers successively of this work. away now. I promised the PROTESTANT The last number that was published REFORMATION seven years before I bewas Number 9; the next will, of course, gan it; but I did it at last, and most be Number 10. The nine numbers, or effectually, too. To finish this History any one or more of them, may be had of George the Fourth, that palace-andat Bolt-court, the price of each, and of arch-building king, I am the more each future number, being SIXPENCE. anxious, in consequence of a vote during I have had many complaints on ac- the last session of Parliament, somecount of my having stopped so long; thing about the compiling of a History of but if I had proceeded with the work, England! I asked whether it was the I must have left something else undone. intention of Parliament to grant money Aye," says the reader," but you should for a History of England, written under not have begun, then." I sincerely beg the instructions of the Government! I his pardon; but I must say that I should. was answered, that the business was, And, if he cites to me the old saying, not to write a history, but to collect about" too many irons in the fire," and materials for the writing of one! Not about some of them "cooling"; I tell actually to cook the ragout; but to him, that I have lived in this state my provide the meat and the fat and the whole life-time long; that when I was herbs and the vegetables, that were to a very little boy, I always undertook so go into the casserole. This appeared to many things that I was compelled to leave some of them undone; that, when I was in the army, I was studying at one and the same time, Dr. LoWTH's Grammar, Dr. WATTS's Logic, the Rhetoric of some fellow, whom I have forgotten, a book on Geometry (and I

me not to be any very great improvement of the project: for, if you are to choose whether there be bits of cowhide, or bits of rump-steak to go into the casserole; and, if I be to eat that which comes out of the casserole, it seems to me that you are to be the master of