THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



MARCH, 1845. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



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

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

 By the Editor. 



(^Continued from page 59.) 



Manchester, August 17. — We left Liverpool on the evening 

 of the 16th, by rail-road, and arrived at Manchester after a 

 rapid ride of about two hours, and put up at the Albion, an 

 excellent and well kept house. Being obliged to take the 

 evening train, from our engagements in Liverpool, we had 

 no opportunity to view the country through which this route 

 passes. But few of the rail-roads run through sections of 

 the country, that offer any thing of interest, and we believe 

 the Liverpool and Manchester road is no exception: on our 

 return from Scotland we came over a few miles of it, from 

 Parkside, and found it a dreary ride, compared with the 

 coach route before we reached that place. We should not 

 omit, however, to notice the plantations of trees for several 

 miles on the Manchester road, with the hope that the mention 

 of this fact may induce our rail-road corporations, as well as 

 individuals through whose land the various routes pass, to 

 make similar plantations. We have before alluded (Vol. VI. 

 p. 403,) to the grounds of the Messrs. Winship, at Brighton, 

 through which the Worcester rail-road runs, and the orna- 

 mental manner in which the banks on each side of the deep 

 cut have been improved by terraces and judicious planting : 

 all who may have noticed this can readily imagine the greater 

 interest which would attend a ride through similar plantations, 

 the entire route to Worcester. We should probably be set 

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