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the Chili pine, (Araucaria imbricata,) the most admi- 

 rable, perhaps, of the many plants discovered and 

 brought home by Mr Archibald Menzies: of this Spring 

 Grove specimen the venerable owner is justly proud. 

 Wormly Bury, the seat ot'Sir Abraham Hume, near En- 

 field, may also be noticed ; it is particularly remarkable 

 for its hot-houses being stored with fine specimens of 

 the rarest tender exotics. Other gardens well deserve 

 notice, inch as Lord Tankerville's near Walton ; the 

 Duke of Northumberland's at Syon House, Brentford ; 

 and Earl Mansfield's at Caen Wood, Hampstead. 



32. Scotland can boast of some first-rate gardens. 

 The Duke of Buccleuch's at Dalkeith contains, within 

 and without the walls, 13 acres. Every thing here is in 

 a princely style : the gravel walks of the place are about 

 fifty miles in extent. Though the soil of the garden 

 was originally bad, and the subsoil U still unpropitious, 

 the whole has been brought to a most productive state 

 by the ingenuity and judgment of hU Grace's gardener, 

 Mr James Macdonald, as will afterwards be more par- 

 ticularly mentioned. The Earl of Eglinton's garden at 

 Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire ; the Duke of Montrose's at 

 Buchanan, in Dunbartonshire; the Earl of Mansfield's 

 at Scone, in Perthshire ; and Mr Ferguson's of lUith in 

 Fifeshire, may also be named. 



33. In Ireland there are many excellent private gar- 

 dens. In the vicinity of Dublin, the Ix>rd Lieute- 

 nant's deserves notice, as well as the ("Kief Secretary's, 

 I-ord Cartlecoote'9, and the Lord Chief-Justice Downe's. 

 The garden of the latter at Merville, two mile* south 

 of Dublin, beside* producing fruit and kitchen vege- 

 tables in perfection, is distinguished for abounding 

 with rare flowers of every description, collected with 

 great taste and assiduity. There is here a separate 

 collection of American native*. At Col Ion, in the 

 county of Lowth, the Right Hon. John Foster has 

 the richest and most varied plantations of trees and 

 shrubs of every kind, to be seen in Ireland, and proba- 

 bly among the bmt in Britain. Mr Latoucfae's garden 

 at Bellevue, in the county of Wicklow, likewise de- 

 serves to be mentioned as of the first rank, both !<>r 

 fruit and for a general collection of plants. At Cattle 

 Forbes, too, in the county of Longford, the Countess of 

 ( jranard has a fine collection of flower*. Scottish htid 

 gardener*, it may be remarked, are equally prevalent 

 in Ireland a* in England. Three oat of the four prin- 

 cipal gardens in the vicinity of Dublin, above specified, 

 are under the minagmaant of f 



34. These are innu raerable ; some of then are kept 

 in the highest style of excellence. They are generally 

 about an acre in extent ; bat many are nearly twice 

 that sue. Under this head, an included all the gar- 

 dens attached to the country house* of thoee in the 

 middle rank* of life : a few also, belonging to opulent 

 duals, who devote their Uiawi to the study of 

 botany and the cultivation of curious plants, must be 

 ranked under this claat, though in some respects far 

 excelling the most extensive garden*. Such i* the 

 Count de Vande's garden at BayswaUr, on the f x- 

 bridge road, remarkable for a very rich collection of 

 plants; and Mr Kent's, at Clapton, near Hackney, 

 where aquatic*, both hardy and tender, are grown in 

 great perfection The tender aquatic* are kept in a 

 atove during winter ; but, in the summer seaeon, the 

 veasrl* containing them are placed on slight hot-bed* 

 un.Irr gU* fames, where lining* of hone- litter can be 

 MM at pleasure ; it being found, that in Uu* way they 



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flower more freely. Mr Vere, at his villa at Knights- Publi*. 

 bridge, possesses a very ample collection of rare txotics. Nunmes, 



Cottage Gardens. 



35. L'nder the title of cottage gardens, must be in- Cottage gtr- 

 cluded all gardens of an inferior sort, such as those dens - 

 common about villages and towns. Cottage-gardens, 

 properly so called, are in some places numerous and 



well kept, affording not only an agreeable relaxation to 

 the occupiers, but contributing very much to the com- 

 forts of their family. In South Britain, however, they 

 are neither so useful, nor so well managed, as in some 

 parts of Scotland. While in the former the vine may 

 sometime* be seen extending its shoots over the cot- 

 tage-roof, indicating a mild climate and a fertile soil, the 

 really useful produce of the ground seems much ne- 

 glected. In Scotland, on the contrary, too little atten- 

 tion is doubtless paid to ornament ; but the healthy kale 

 and cabbage plants, and other useful pot-herbs, with 

 well-earthed row* of early potatoes, shew that the in- 

 habitants understand the management of their little 

 spots, and how to draw from them the most effectual 

 assistance to their families. 



Public Nurteriet. 



36. The public Hurttries, especially near London, are Public nut* 

 of the first order. These, besides being remarkable for i 

 general collections of plant*, are usually distinguished 



lor excelling m some particular department. Thus at 

 Lee anil Kennedy's at Hammersmith there is not only a 

 Boat extentive general collection, but more particularly 

 a complete assortment of heaths and other Cape of Good 

 Hope plants. Loddige's at Hackney is distingui-luil 

 for stove plant* ; Whitley, Brame* and Milne, at 1'ul- 

 ham, have a general collection ; a* have also Malcolm 

 at Kensington, and Jenkins & Gwyther near Padding- 

 ton. At Thomson's at Mile-End, besides a rich col- 

 lection of young plants, are many fine old American 

 tree* of the rarer kind*, and a very large gingko tree of 

 Japan, (SaJitburia adiantifolia) : at Colville's, on the 

 King's Road, there is a great extent of glass for the grow- 

 ing of showy plants for the London market ; Davy's, in 

 that neighbourhood, is famed for a fine collection of tu- 

 lip*, certainly the first in Britain : Milliken at Wai worth 

 excels in auriculas, ranunculuses and anemones ; and 

 Chandler, near V.iuxhall, in camellias ; Gray and Wear 

 at Brompton Park (formerly the nursery ground* of 

 London and Wise) have a great collection of fruit-tree*. 

 Mr Joseph Kirke, also at Brompton, ha* but a small 

 nursery, but it is rich in the newly introduced fruits, 

 particularly those raiaed by Mr Knight, and those re- 

 commended by the Horticultural Society of London. 

 Ronald* at Brentford, and Wilmot and Lewisham at 

 Deptford, may also be mentioned as excelling in the 

 culture and training of young fruit-tree*. At what i* 

 called the Botanic Garden at Sloane Street, kept by 

 Mr William Salisbury, the partner and successor of 

 Curtis, there i* a considerable collection of curious shrubs 

 and plants in general. Several of the nurserymen pay 

 much attention to the production of seeds for the market, 

 either of culinary plants, or of ornamental flowers. Of the 

 principal kind* of the former, such a* cabbage*, turnips, 

 and pea*, they annually raise a small quantity of the diffe- 

 rent varieties, in their own nursery grounds and under 

 their eye, taking care however that each variety be as 

 far separated a* possible from any similar crop ; they 

 examine the plant* when in Mower, and reject such as 

 are spurious. The whole seed thus procured is kept 

 till next season ; it is then sent to some seed-farmer in 



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