THE MAGAZINE 



O F 



HORTICULTURE. 



JUNE, 1846. 



ORIGINAL COMiMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notes and Recollections of a Tour through part of 

 England, Scotland and France, in the autumn of 1844. 

 By the Editor. 



{(Concluded from page 164.) 



Edinburgh, October 12th. — We arrived in the city from 

 Glasgow, about eight o'clock in the evening, by rail-road, 

 having left there about five o'clock. It was so late we had 

 no opportunity of seeing the town. Sunday intervening, be- 

 fore we could renew our visits to the gardens around the city, 

 we had an opportunity to visit several of the beautiful 

 churches, for which Edinburgh is noted. 



Nurseries of Messrs. Lawson ^' Soti, October X^th. — The 

 nurseries of Messrs. Lawson are about two miles from the 

 city, on the Inverleith road, and occupy several acres, of nearly 

 level land, well situated for nursery cultivation. They are 

 kept in most excellent order, and the arrangement of the 

 ground, the vigor of the trees, and cleanliness of the whole 

 premises, excelled any thing we saw, of the same extent. 

 They were indeed a model for imitation, and we wish that 

 some of our nurserymen could have one day's inspection of 

 them, and take a lesson, wliich it would be to their credit to 

 recollect, in the laying out and management of their estab- 

 lishments. 



The ground is laid off into squares, with mam walks, eight 

 or ten feet wide, and well gravelled. These squares are again 

 subdivided by numerous alleys, and the intervening beds are 

 planted out Avith all kinds of trees, shrubs, plants, &c. Im- 

 mense quantities of seedlings are grown, such as larch, Nor- 



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