THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE 



SEPTEMBER, 1845. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



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

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

 By the Editor. 



(^Continued from page 290.) 



London, Sept. 23d. — After an absence of nearly three weeks, 

 we again returned to the metropolis, by the same route as 

 that by which we reached Paris. Want of time prevented 

 us from proceeding down the Seine to Havre, and thence to 

 London. We shall now complete our notes of the gardens 

 we visited on our return to the city. 



Tooting, Messrs. Rollisson (Sf' Sons, Sept. 2Aih. — One of the 

 most delightful rides around London is over the Tooting road ; 

 a coach leaves the city several times a day. We took an 

 outside seat, as all travellers should, who wish to see the 

 country. The road is broad, and Macadamized in the most 

 perfect manner, being smooth and firm, with a proper curve. 

 We only wish that such a specimen of a road was within a 

 reasonable distance of some of our cities, that those who have 

 the management of roads in the adjoining towns, might learn 

 the art of constructing them, and properly keeping them in 

 good order. 



Messrs. Rollisson & Sons is one of the oldest establish- 

 ments around London, and has long been well known for its 

 fine collection of heaths, of which the father of the present 

 proprietors raised upwards of fifty of the finest varieties, which 

 are now enumerated in catalogues. The nursery borders 

 upon the road, and is several acres in extent. The principal 

 range of glass is upwards of two hundred feet long, and there 



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