. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. NOVEMDEB 38,] THE COTTAGE GAKDENER. 121 WEEKLY CALENDAR, M w i) D 2S Th 29 P 20 S SM 3 To 4 W NOV. 28âDEC. 4, 1850. Elm stript. Thrush resumes song. St. Andrew. Sunday. Trees all stript. Linncean Society. Horticultural Soc. Weather near London in 1819. Barometer. â â â (1 . â â â ';42â Thermo. Wind. 33â21 w. 45â31 s. 48â28 48â29 W. 50â10 S. 40â31 39-19 S. Sun Rises. 41 a.; 43 41 46 47 49 50 Sun Sets. Jloon ;S
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. NOVEMDEB 38,] THE COTTAGE GAKDENER. 121 WEEKLY CALENDAR, M w i) D 2S Th 29 P 20 S SM 3 To 4 W NOV. 28âDEC. 4, 1850. Elm stript. Thrush resumes song. St. Andrew. Sunday. Trees all stript. Linncean Society. Horticultural Soc. Weather near London in 1819. Barometer. â â â (1 . â â â ';42â Thermo. Wind. 33â21 w. 45â31 s. 48â28 48â29 W. 50â10 S. 40â31 39-19 S. Sun Rises. 41 a.; 43 41 46 47 49 50 Sun Sets. Jloon ;S. 55 a. 54 63 52 52 61 61 0 67 2 13 3 28 4 42 5 65 seta. 4 a. 60 Rfoon's ' Clock Age. bef. Sun 24 26 26 27 28 It lias been saiil that no book was ever iiubllslicd from which some useful information could not be gained, and it is at least equally true that no man ever lived from whose biography no useful lesson could be deduced. In some form or other every mortal offers us an example of excellence to be mutated, or of vice or slotlifulness to bo avoided. Sir .loUN HiLi, alfords us many of these lessons; for whilst we must hold up most of the prominent passages of his life to our readers, as warnings from pursuing a simdar course, yet no one can avoid observing in him a proof of the achievements possible to unwearied industry and rigid economy ot time. He was born about 1716,-the son of a Lincolnsliire clergyman ; vvas educated to earn a living as .an apothecary; and his tailures, even from honesty, were thus touched upon by Mr. Woodward, whom he had wantonly attacked. " I do remember," says Mr. Wood- ward," an apothecary, who whilom did reside in a snrall shop, or rather shed, in St. Martin's Lane; whilom in a snualler at Westminster; who whilom did remove from thence to the Savoy; and whilom did remove thence into the country, 'eullin'' of simples ;' and who afterwards did make such a cull of the master of Clielsea Gardens, and did so cull in these
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