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being the depository of aught important , nobody thought it worth while to provide him with * commodity / therefore the charge was laid on the back of poor John Bull as the last resort . Junius Redivivus . ( To be continued . )
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Here is a new and natural year-book ; a daily gardener ' s guide , and a monthl y mirror of the meadows ; instructions for rearing tender thoughts and spring lettuces ; a journal of education and horticulture ; directions for digging , decorated with didactics ; physics and metaphysics , for man and boy , from January to December .
' Adam Stock was the eldest sdn of a gentleman , who , having retired from London to the southern coast of our island , for the improvement of his health , had there purchased an estate , consisting of a house , a large garden , a field , and a poultry-yard . He knew the value of industry , and that , to an independent and contented mind , few things are
really necessary to our comfort ; he therefore determined to cultivate his own ground ; and , as nearly as he could , to do every thing for himself . '
One new-year ' s day he resolved to associate little Adam in his labours ; and the book shows us , in a chapter for each month , how the cultivation of the father ' s garden and of the son ' s mind went on at the same time , and how in due season each bore fruit
according to its kind . The groundwork then , of this book , is a horticultural directory . And here we must honestly allow our critical incompetence . We confess entire ignorance and inaptitude . ' A time there was , when every rood of ground maintained its man . ' It must have boon a clever and generous rood that would have maintained us . We hope for a little leisure some day , but our otium would be an odium , cum digging-a taty . Like the people who have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them , ' we have nothing to do with the radishes but to eat them . Mr . Clarke may be either a Conservative or a Destructive in the vegetable kingdom , with impunity for us . All we can say is , that the instructions are
very intelligible ; that we observe none ot the mysteries and cruelties which have so often perplexed us in horticultural operations , and made us almost weep over the poor trees and things that were cut and twisted about , * all for their good / as the gardener said , speaking in a tone that we thoug ht very like a Tory ; —and that , if it does all come round at last , as Mr . Clarke says , and the roses , and ranunculi , and spinach , and poached eggs , be realized in the necessary sequence of cause ; ind effect , why then , ? Adam the Oard * ne » . Bv Charles Cowden Clarke . Wilton , 1634 ,
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A dam the Gardener . 189
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ADAM THE GAKDENER . «¦
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1834, page 139, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2630/page/55/
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