in England and Wales. 



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in beautifying and enlarging the pleasure-grounds and gar- 

 dens. 



The kitchen-gardens contain about four acres enclosed with 

 brick walls, one of which, a south-east exposure, is clothed 

 with the finest peach and nectarine trees imaginable, there 

 hardly being a spare foot of wall or a blemished leaf to be 

 seen, while they were loaded with fruit. The trees have mostly 

 been planted within the last eight or nine years. Mr. Burns, 

 before planting, had the border well prepared, and laid on a 

 slope of about 20 in. from the wall to the walk, the border 

 being 1 2 ft. wide, so that it effectually prevents any danger of 

 an over supply of water. The border lias been very sparingly 

 cropped, but manured plentifully. Mr. Burns has also ex- 

 celled in the cultivation of the pine-apple : the sorts he grows 

 are chiefly Black Jamaica, Antigua, Enville, and Providence. 

 They are grown in pits filled with leaves and heated with 

 dung linings, while he fruits them in a pit, as under, [fig. 15.) 



The front and ends are surrounded by the dung linings, 

 which are 4 ft. wide, as high as the bed, and covered with 

 oak boarding [a) ; the bed {b) is filled with oak leaves, and is 

 38 ft. long, by 12 ft. in width ; behind it are the path and flues. 

 The house is entered by a door (c), after descending a few- 

 steps; the flue [d) goes and returns on itself between the path 

 and back wall. The rafters and sashes are of iron; the walls 

 are 9 in. brickwork, ends and front pigeon-holed. It appears 

 to be a pit well adapted for the fruiting of the pine, from the 

 facility with which the heat can be kept up, and the readiness 

 with which the plants can be got at, either from the inside or 

 out, the bottom sashes being movable. It perhaps might be 

 improved by substituting hot-water pipes for the flue. 



In the house occupied by the Tottenham Park seedling 

 muscat of Alexandria there is an excellent crop ; the berries 

 promise to be very fine. On leaving a delightful flower-gar- 

 den, you are ushered upon a magnificent bank of i^hododen- 

 dron. Azalea, Kalm/a &c. in a very luxuriant state. This 

 bank is flanked on one side by a covered walk of roses and 

 clematis, on the other by a wall upwards of 400 ft. long of 

 Magnolm grand iflora. On the bank there is a fine specimen 



