...embellishment of city and country. When the old Laird of Dumbiedikes gave to his son the memorable injunction, "Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be...; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping," his advice had a deep significance, which few are wise enough to profit by. Here every avenue and street...

...Scott, in his "Heart of Mid Lothian," puts into the mouth of Old Dumbiedikes, "Jock when ye hae nothing else to do ye may be aye sticking in a tree, it will be growing Jock when ye're a sleeping." And thus surrounded as you are with comforts and with beauties, do xot go through the...

...ennoble the pursuit of agriculture. That was a sage injunction of the dying Scotch laird to his son : "Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be...sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when y're sleeping;" words of wisdom "tauld" him by his father, "sae forty years, sin;" but which he regretfully...

...ennoble the pursuit of agriculture. That was a sage injunction of the dying Scotch laird to his son: "Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be...sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when y're sleeping;" words of wisdom "tauld" him by his father, "sae forty years, sin;" but which he regretfully...

...debt to other folk, I think they suld pay it to me—that equals aquals.—Jock, when ye hae nothing else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will...be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.? My father tanld me sae forty years sin', hut I ne'er fand time to mind him—Jock, ne'er drink brandy in the...

...Bedfords have been of like mind with Sir Walter's Laird of Dumbiedikes, who, on his death-bed, remarked, "Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be...; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping." The present Duke has, fortunately both for science and practice, not only maintained the famous Woburn...

...in the advice of the Laird of Dumbiedikes, in Scott's " Heart of Mid-Lothian," who sensibly says : " When ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree ; it will be growing when ye're sleeping." But, in establishing new streets, too often, when I had gone through my own land,...

...the full-grown oak; still hundreds of wise proprietors follow the advice of Dumby Dykes to his son :—"Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may...tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping." peculiarities of these worms, and their requirements, we shall be as successful in Ireland as in Japan....

...play. It is to the interest of Europe that she be left strong enough. VOL. V., NS 1870. YY I TREES. "Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be...; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping." — SIR WALTER SCOTT. IJ^OTWITHSTANDING the extraordinary multiplication of books in recent times,...

...late years beautified their estates with larches, carrying out the behest of the Laird of Dumbiedikes, "Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be...sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye are sleeping." The chief kinds of British timber trees are the oak, the beech, the chestnut, the...