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Art. II. Remarks on various Gardens about London, and in other 

 Parts of England, visited in April and Mai/, 1829. By Mr. 

 Jacob Kinz, Jun., Nurseryman, Frankfort on the Main. 



Sir, 

 Agreeably to your request, and with the greatest pleasure, 

 1 send you some i-emarks which I made during my stay in 

 England ; but I must beg of you to take into consideration, 

 that I have seen comparatively few of the gardens of my own 

 country, although I stopped a considerable time in France and 

 Holland. I should like to give you an account of many ex- 

 cellent things in all the places which I have seen ; but the 

 greater part of them have been noticed already in your Ma- 

 gazine, and in the Encijclopfvdia of Gardening.^ I shall therefore 

 confine myself to a few remarks on English gardeners and 

 gardening. 



The Garden of Messrs. Loddiges. — Like almost every fo- 

 reign gardener who visits England, I arrived in London full of 

 expectation and curiosity. The first garden I visited was that 

 of Messrs. Loddiges, and never shall I forget the sensation 

 produced in me by this establishment. I cannot describe the 

 raptures I experienced on seeing that immense palm house. 

 All that I had before seen of the kind appeared nothing to me 

 compared with this. I fancied myself in the Brazils ; and 

 especially at that moment when Mr. Loddiges had the kind- 

 ness to produce, in my presence, a shower of artificial rain. 

 Under such natural and perfect management, the palms, ferns, 

 and most other plants, appeared just as might be expected. I 

 was surprised at the vast ranges of green-houses and hot- 

 houses ; particularly at the beautiful curvilinear camellia house, 

 in which the plants produced the most beautiful effect. The 

 whole collection seemed perfectly well kept, except the ericas, 

 which, as Messrs. Loddiges observed, had suffered last sum- 

 mer from some very hot days. 



The Clapton Nursery. — The next garden I visited was the 

 nursery of Mr. Mackay at Clapton. Here I was struck with 

 the neat construction of the houses, the beautiful and rich 

 collection of Cape and New Holland plants, and their excel- 

 lent management : but I was particularly pleased with the 

 propagating house, and I am fully convinced that cuttings will 

 strike no where else better than under such management. 

 (See Vol. II. p. 25.) All that I saw in this nursery exhibited 

 superior taste and knowledge, and consequently all the plants 

 were in a very luxuriant state. 



Other Nurseries. — It would be, perhaps, tedious to enume- 

 rate all the beauties observable in the niu'series of Messrs. 



