A field of several acres, thus divided and cultivated in allotments, presents as striking a combination of colors as an Axminster carpet.

As every rood is subdivided into a great variety of vegetables, and as forty or fifty of such patches, lying side by side, present, in one coup d'oeil, all the alternations of which these crops and colors are susceptible, the effect is very picturesque.
My Woodhurst friend makes his allotment system a source of much social enjoyment to himself and the poor villagers.

He lets forty- seven patches, each containing twenty poles.

Every tenant pays 10s., or $2 40c., annual rent for his little holding, Mr.E.drawing the manure for each, which is always one good load a year.

Here, too, these little spade-farmers are put under the same regime as the great tenant agriculturists of the country.