Cottage Gardens. - These rather fall off, in point of ornamental plants, as we advance towards the north; but in Lancashire they are of a good size, and, as we were informed by Mr. Whalley of the Maghull nursery, they contribute materially to the support of the cottager by the potatoes, cabbages, and onions grown in them. About the lakes, the cottage gardens form an exception as to flowers; but from Carlisle to Dumfries they seem to contain very few, and, as we were informed by a gentleman intimately acquainted with this tract of country, when many of the cottages were pulled down and rebuilt by farmers and proprietors some years ago, when farming land was high, the gardens were cruelly diminished, or taken away altogether. This ought not to be tolerated, and we heartily wish that the legislature would interfere in the manner suggested, p. 410.
