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of the winters, are unknown with us. The thermometer 

 rarely sinks below 20° Fahr., and the average lowest tem- 

 perature, during the last eighteen years, near London, was 

 29° ; the lowest, 6°. It is less favorable to forcing, from 

 the want of our cloudless sky and brilliant sun ; and the finer 

 fruits cannot be produced in such perfection as with us ; culi- 

 nary vegetables of some kinds may perhaps be grown with 

 greater facility, and to a higher state of excellence ; but there 

 are several, which are with us most esteemed, that cannot be 

 grown at all unless by artificial heat ; corn, Lima beans, to- 

 matoes, egg plants, cucumbers and squashes, do not succeed. 

 Even during the last dry and favorable autumn, corn, in the 

 garden of Mrs. Marryatt, where it is annually planted, and 

 where it sometimes attains a full growth, when newly im- 

 ported seed of the earliest kind is obtained, did not grow to a 

 sufficient size for the table. But the mildness of the winter 

 admits of the distribution in gardens and pleasure grounds, 

 of trees and shrubs from all the temperate climes of the world, 

 and in this respect it is, and of necessity must always be, 

 superior to our own. The camellia, (in some situations,) the 

 lauristmus, and many other plants that in our climate require 

 the protection of the greenhouse, grow and flower freely in 

 the open air ; roses, with the exception of some of the ten- 

 derest sorts, fuchsias, and similar plants, are quite hardy. 

 The cultivator, therefore, must vary his treatment materially 

 where with us, for six months, artificial heat is constantly 

 required. 



We were unusually fortunate in having, during nearly the 

 whole time we were abroad, exceedingly fine weather ; quite 

 unlike, indeed, the average of good seasons. At Liverpool, 

 it was more or less showery every day ; at Sheffield, it was 

 also misty and showery; but from the time we left this 

 place, until we returned again to Liverpool, upwards of 

 six weeks, we were accompanied with delightful weather ; 

 equalling, at the time we were in London, our most favora- 

 ble autumnal months. It may be imagined, that, under such 

 auspices, our opportunity to visit many places was greatly 

 extended, and both gardens and grounds appeared to much 

 greater advantage than during the damp and misty weather 

 which generally prevails. 



