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STATISTICS OF GARDENING. 



PART IV. 



eight different open gardens. This is but a first rough sketch of what might have been, 

 but such as it is we leave it as our protest against the present plan, from the details of 

 which the reader will judge for himself. 



750fi. The London Horticultural Society's garden contains 33 acres, of which 17[ are 

 devoted to horticulture (A), 13^ to floriculture and arboriculture (B), and If to lodges, 

 roads, yards, &c. (C). 



The fruit anil kitchen department (A) contains 



Eastern slip for herbs, perennial esculents, and strawberries, 

 and border of east wall, A 1 



Orchard, A 2 



Southern slip for strawberries, gooseberries, currants, and rasp- 

 berries, and borders of south wall, A 3 



Kitchen-garden, A 4 



Miscellaneous standard fruit compartment, A 5 



Site for fruit glass, A 6 



Pits and forcing ground, A 7 



Garden for small fruits, A 8 



Western slips for stocks, and fruit- wall border, A 9 



Experimental garden, A 10. 



The ornamental department (B) contains 

 Entrance to flower-garden, B 1 

 Flower-garden, B 2 



7509. The garden of the Caledonian Horticultural Society is not yet in a state to be 

 discusseu. 



Si! for nrna ier 

 Arboretum, B 4 

 Rose-garden, B 5 

 Experimental garden, B 6 



The lodges, roads, and yards (C) are 

 Entrance from London, and ornamental gardener's proposed 



Assistant secretary's proposed lodge, C 2 



Space unoccupied at S.E. angle, C 3 



Private road outside of the fence on the south, C 4 



Kitchen-garden proposed lodge, C 5 



Space unoccupied at S.W. angle, C 6 



\ ards for stables, sheds, composts, &c., C 7 



Private road to Turnham-green, C 8 



Entrance by the National School from Turnham-green, C 9. 



CHAP. III. 



Topographical Survey of the Biitish Isles, in respect to Gardening. 



7510. The British isles are naturally and politically more favorable to the practice of hor- 

 ticulture in all its branches than any other country ; in no country is so great a proportion 

 of the surface covered with gardens, including, under this term, the parks or landscape- 

 gardens, which surround gentlemen's seats. The beauty and magnificence of these parks, 

 and the villas, mansions, castles, and palaces, of which they are the appendages, far sur- 

 pass what is to be met with in any other part of the world. The palaces and scenery of 

 Italy are more interesting to artists and classical antiquaries, from the particular associ- 

 ations necessarily connected with their pursuits ; but the views of an accomplished and 

 well regulated mind will extend to other kinds of excellence, as well as those of pictur- 

 esque or classic beauty ; and a man that knows to what extent civilisation and refinement 

 are carried in different parts of the world, will look into the interior of these casinos and 

 palaces, their gardens and farms, and enquire to what extent they would contribute, in 

 their propriety, salubrity, furniture, produce, and management, to the gratification of the 

 wants of an Englishman in his present state of refinement. In these particulars he will 

 find them so very deficient, as to admit of no sort of comparison with those of Britain. 



