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time with their roots so mucli confined; because it confirms the idea of our 

 correspondent F. N. B. (Vol.111, p. 145.) as to the practicability and proper 

 mode of growing vines in the open air in this country. The same plan of 

 operation will apply to figs, and probably to a certain extent to pears and 

 peaches. The gardener here, Lasaney, is a member of the Brighton Co- 

 operative Society, which lie informed us was going on successfully; his 

 employer rents the garden of the Duke of Noi'folk, and sends the pro- 

 duce to the watering places along the coast. 



Arundel to Dorking. August 16. — An agreeable road through a varied 

 and fertile country. Cnicus acaulis is abundant on the Dowus, and the 

 summits of the broad purple flowers, spread out on a level with the 

 surface of the grass, have a fine appearance. At Pulborough a cottage 

 covered with a very large and handsome parsley-leafed grape, which we 

 were told ripened its fruit in ordinary years. In the churchyard four 

 children of one birth in one grave. Some picturesque, Gothic cottage 

 villas on the right of the road, on the margin of a common two or 

 three miles before entering Dorking, most agreeable to look at; but 

 knowing the small, gloom}-, low-ceiled rooms which architects generally 

 form in these buildings, as being characteristic of the style, we "have no 

 pleasure in the idea ot inhabiting them. Whoever wishes to know the im- 

 mense importance of continual supplies of fresh air to health, should read 

 Holland's Enquiry into the Laws which regulate Organic and Animal Life. 

 (8vo. 1829.) The entrance into Dorking is highl}' enriched by cottages, villas 

 gardens, trees, and hills ; the town, as compared with many others, may be 

 described as elegant and picturesque. \\'illiam Fuller, a tinman, makes a 

 very ingenious seed-box tor feeding pheasants ; and Mr. Carter, Wood- 

 hatch, Hargate, potter, makes handsome garden vases, in use at Deepdene 

 and other places ; both these articles are worth having, and may be ob- 

 tained through Donald and Westland, in Dorkingj or Charlwood, seeds- 

 man. Great Russel-street, London. 



Donald and Westland' s Nursery. August 17. — Mr. Westland is an ex- 

 cellent cultivator, and an ingenious mechanic. He built, glazed, and painted 

 his own green-houses, and has a propagating pit heated by dung thrown in 

 at one end. He propagates very successfully all the more rare and elegant 

 Cape and New Holland plants, has raised several new georginas, and 

 maintains a good collection of the more showy border flowers, annual and 

 perennial. Those fine showy plants, iupinus mutabilis, tEnothera speciosa, 

 introduced by Mr.Bunbury (Vol. II. p. 298.), are here finely grown, and now 

 in great beauty. Water for the green-house is kept in large cisterns of 

 pavement stones grooved into each other, and made water tight by Roman 

 cement, as is done with the Plymouth and Welsh slates, when used for the 

 same purpose. 



Deepdene; Thomas Hope, Esq. August 17. — This is a place which 

 presents but little food for the critic, since it contains so much beauty, both 

 by Nature and by art, that there is little left for him to do but to walk 

 round and admire. Even the historical associations of the place are beau- 

 tiful. The situation was distinguished by its natural beauties and delightful 

 prospect so long ago as the time of Charles I., at which time it was selected 

 as the retirement of the Honourable Charles Howai'd, a man of science and 

 taste, who effected several garden improvements here in the terraced style 

 of his time. In Camden's Britannia, Deepdene is said to contain " gardens, 

 vineyards, grots, terraces, and plantations." Aubrey, in his Antiquities of 

 Surrey (Vol. IV. p. 164.), describes it as " a long hope, i. e. according to 

 Virgil deductns vallis (a lengthened valley), contrived in the most pleasant 

 and delightful solitude for house, gardens, orchards, boscages," <S;c. which 

 he had seen in England. Mr. Hope has greatly enlarged the house and 

 offices, and having combined in them all the finest parts of what may be 

 called the landscape architecture and sculpture of Italy, has formed a whole. 



