42 Notes and Recollections of a Tour. 



morning of the 23d. Visited Isleworth, Mr. Wilmot ; Brent- 

 ford, Messrs. Ronalds ; Hammersmith, Messrs. Lee ; Chiswick, 

 Chiswick House ; Hackney, Messrs. Loddiges ; Clapham, 

 Mr. Fairburn ; Homislow. Mr. Chapman ; Vauxhall, Messrs. 

 Chandler & Sons ; Knap Hill Nursery, Messrs. Waterer ; 

 Bagshot, Messrs. Waterer ; Bagshot Park ; Dropmore ; Wind- 

 sor ; Wimbledon, Mrs. Marryatt ; Chelsea, Mr. Dennis. We 

 left London on the evening of Oct. 8th by the way of Ches- 

 ter, where we visited the Nurseries of Messrs. Dickson, and 

 arrived in Liverpool on the 9th. Proceeded to Glasgow, and 

 arrived there on the 10th ; visited the Glasgow Botanic Gar- 

 den, Bothwell Castle, Garden and the Nurseries of Messrs. 

 Austin & Son. Arrived in Edinburgh on the 12th ; visited 

 the Caledonian Horticultural Society's Garden, the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Nurseries of Messrs. Lawson & Son; 15th, 

 Dalkeith, Dalkeith Park ; 16th, Abbottsford and Melrose 

 Abbey. 17th returned to Liverpool, and remained until the 

 19th, when we embarked for Boston. 



The notes and memorandums of our tour occupy, as they 

 were hastily taken down, many pages, and it will be our en- 

 deavor to condense them as much as possible, without cur- 

 tailing their interest ; were we to write out our remarks as 

 fully as has been our custom, in our visits to gardens at home, 

 we should find room for little else in the present volume than 

 the results of our tour. 



The object of our notes will be, not only to convey a good 

 description of the state of gardening abroad, but at the same 

 time to interest and instruct the reflecting cultivator, by a full 

 account of the various modes of cultivation^ propagation and 

 general management, which came under our observation ; to 

 point out what we consider as improvements in every depart- 

 ment of the art, and to give the results of any new methods 

 of treatment. Climate has undoubtedly so much eff'ect upon 

 the management of some tribes of plants, that no comparison 

 could be justly made ; but a knowledge of what any mode 

 of cultivation has effected under such peculiarities, will aid 

 our cultivators in adopting such treatment as will be equally 

 favorable in the end. 



The climate of England is very different from our own ; 

 the coolness and moisture of the summers, and the mildness 



