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cities or large towns. How long will it be before this false 

 idea of crowding buildings together, even in the country, will 

 be abandoned 1 it is no uncommon occurrence to see gentle- 

 men remove to the country, and take a house with less than 

 one quarter of an acre of land, — but little better, indeed, than 

 the crowded streets of the city. The remarks of Mr, Col- 

 man, which we have copied, (Vol. X. p. 272,) express our 

 ideas of the importance of public parks and gardens, as a 

 place of resort, in populous cities and towns, for the inhabit- 

 ants, — especially the poorer and humbler classes, — who have 

 no means to remove to the pure and bracing air of the 

 country. 



Saivbridgeworth, Nursery of T. Rivers. — On the morning 

 of one of the finest days we experienced abroad, we visited 

 the nursery of Mr. Rivers. It is situated about twenty-six 

 miles from the city, on the route of the Midland Counties 

 Railway, and, in less than an hour, we were set down at the 

 Sawbridgeworth station, about a mile from the nursery. Un- 

 fortunately, at this season of the year, many of the nursery- 

 men and seedsmen were travelling, and we did not have the 

 pleasure of finding Mr. Rivers at home. Not knowing that 

 we should have time to visit his place again, we improved 

 the opportunity of looking through the grounds, and noting 

 what we saw most interesting. 



Our first wish was to see the roses, for which Mr. Rivers' s 

 collection is celebrated ; and though we did not find so many 

 plants, or so many in bloom, as we expected, yet we saw a 

 great number, and some very excellent specimens. Bourbon 

 Crimson Globe is a splendid variety ; Acidalie is also a pure 

 white of the same class. Another, called Madam Aubes, had 

 splendid clusters of pale rose flowers. The new hybrid per- 

 petuals were superb ; Edward Defosse, fine rose ; Rivers, 

 deep crimson, fine ; Augustin Mouchelet, globular, deep rose, 

 very fine ; Comte de Paris, large, deep rose, excellent ; Wil- 

 liam Jesse, very large, globular and fine ; Gloire de la GuUo- 

 tiere, globular, pale rose ; Lady Alice Peel, rose, beautiful. 

 Among the Teas, Nina, with large, deep, blush flowers, was 

 very fine ; Cassio, yellowish, beautiful ; Soprano, buff" when 

 in bud, and splendid in that state, becoming paler when open; 

 Adam, color of Bougere, fine ; Reine de Bassora, very large 



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