THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



AUGUST, 1831. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. 



Art. I. General Results of a Gardening Tour, during May and 

 June in the present Year, by a circuitous Route from London 

 to Manchester. By the Conductor. 



The object of tins article is to generalise the impressions 

 Avhich we have received from visiting a considerable number 

 of gardens between London and Manchester, the details of 

 which will be given in a future Magazine, f 



We left Bayswater April 24., and proceeded by Harrow 

 and Pinner to Rickmansworth, where we saw * Moor Park ; 

 Amersham (* Chalfont House, * Shardeloes, * Hampden 

 House, and * Chequers) ; Aylesbury (* Wootton) ; Bucking- 

 ham (Stowe) ; Banbury (* Wroxton Abbey, Radway Grange, 

 and ' Compton Verney); * Warwick (Warwick Castle); Lea- 

 mington (Radford, Off'bury Rectory, and Cullis's Nursery); 

 Kenilworth (* Guy's Cliff and * Stoneleigh Abbey); Co- 

 ventry (* Whitley Abbey, * Coombe Abbey, the gardens of 

 Mr. Howe and of Mr. Herbert, Allesley Rectory, W^eare's 



■\ Those places considered as mansion residences are marked by a star 

 (*), to distinguish them as a chiss. Having sent our notes to London, 

 book after book, as they were filled, we have probably forgotten to enu- 

 merate a number of places at which we called ; and we have purposely 

 omitted the names of various seats seen from the public roads, our remarks 

 on which will appear in the details of our tour. The names given above 

 are for the purpose of putting the reader in possession of the data on which 

 we found the opinions that we are now about to express in ao oiFhand man- 

 ner, and send to the printer as written. 



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