For remarks and additional obſervations,

foil, neither too rich nor toe poor, is the beſt for a nurſery. It is therefore humbly ſuggeſted to gentlemen, who have it in contemplation to become conſiderable planters, to turn their attention to raifing their own plants and trees, or at leaſt to buy very fmall plants, at low prices, from nurſeries, aud to keep them, when tranſplanted, for ſome time, in their own nurſery-grounds. By adopting either ef theſe plans, they will find not only a very great ſaving, but a prodigious ſatisfaction afterwards, in the health and fu- ture ſucceſsful progreſs of their plantations.

Cowkeepers— All round London, but particularly near Hackney, Iſſington, and for ſeveral miles thereabouts, the cow-keepers engroſs every inch of land they can procure, The quantity of milk, conſumed by the metropolis, muſt be very great indeed. Some of theſe cow-keepers, have remarkable large ſtocks of cows, for the purpoſe of ſup- plying this neceſſary article: one farmer(Mr. Weſt, of Iflington) has, on the different farms he poſſeſſes in that neighbourhood, very near 1000; in one yard l ſaw about 300 cows; and, as at this ſeaſon of the year(July), they are in the fineſt order, and their colours are different and beautifully variegated, I could not help being much pleaſed with a ſcene ſo near London, at once ſo rich and rural. The cow-keepers are not particular as to their breed; for you will find in their hands, beaſts as various in their kinds, as in their colours,—a cow that gives a great quantity of milk is naturally preferred; quantity, not quality, being the object. They are in general bought from drovers in thie Northern parts of England, who make it a baſineſs to purchaſe cows for the London cow-keepers, for which they give, from ſix to ten pounds per cow, when with calf. The ſpotted cows, ſell for more by twenty ſhillings, than cows of equal goodneſs, but all of oneè colour. The Hol- derneſs breed certainly give the largeſt quantity of nulk;

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