they are apt to look upon the clothes thus given to them, and which are probably quite different from what they would have purchased for themselves, almost as a badge of slavery which they are compelled to wear to please their patrons, but of which they hate the very sight.

And now, my dear Annie, I shall bid you adieu with my pen, as next week I hope to be able to accept your often repeated invitation to come and see myself the result of my admonitions. I shall certainly be delighted to visit your gardens, your poultry-yard, your dairy, and all your favourite haunts; but what will give me most pleasure will be to see you happy, and to be assured from your experience that it is possible for a young and beautiful woman, though brought up amidst all the gaieties of a town life, to abandon them without a sigh, and to enjoy rationally a Country Life.

Ancient houses, situation of, Assisting the poor in cases of

use of, Beans, mode of growing, 234,

Beasts subject to the forest
laws of England, 328.
Bee-hives, 380.

Bees, management of, 380.
Beet, mode of cultivating and
cooking, 237.
Beet-root soup, 99.

Belt used in archery, 407.
Berberry, mode of growing,

263.

Bernicle goose, 367.
Biennials, 179.
Biscuits, 66.
Bittern, S80.

Black fly on camellias and
orange trees, mode of de-
stroying, 209.

Black slug, 397.

| Brussels sprouts, 284.
Budding, 273.
Budding-knife, 270.
Bulbs, cultivation of, 168.
Burrow duck, 369.
Butcher-bird, 396.

Butter biscuits, 66.

Butter, modes of making in
Scotland, and in England,

129.

C.

Cabbages, mode of growing,

233.

Cabbage tribe, cultivation of
the, 232.

Californian annuals, 170.
Calves, management of, $20.

Black snail, description of, 397. | Camellia house, 199.