THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



OCTOBER, 1845. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



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

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

 By the Editor. 



{Coyit'uiued from page 330.) 



Hackney^ Messrs. Loddiges, Sept. 27th. — From the cele- 

 brated character which Messrs. Loddiges estabhshment has 

 attained, our expectations were highly raised, and we appro- 

 priated a day for our visit to this place. The distance 

 from the city is only four or five miles, and the grounds 

 are now thickly surrounded with dwellings ; the whole ex- 

 tent did not appear to be more than eight or ten acres. 



The principal garden, devoted to the houses and collections 

 of plants, is a walled enclosure of a square, containing three 

 or four acres ; this is again divided by another wall, which 

 forms the back of an immense range, appropriated to plants, 

 and also the extensive camellia house, for which the Hackney 

 garden has so long been celebrated. Commencing our walk, 

 we first entered a stove, which is devoted to the growth of 

 Orchidese. This opens into the great domical palm house, 

 with a roof nearly sixty feet high, and filled with specimens, 

 having all the vigor and beauty of their Oriental clime. Prep- 

 arations were now making for the winter, and the plants 

 were not yet arranged in their places ; but some of the palms 

 were remarkable for their size and beauty, reaching nearly 

 to the top, and spreading out their wavy fronds over the 

 smaller species. Pandanns spiralis was upwards of twenty 

 feet high, finely grown, and in perfect health. This house 

 is so arranged as to be watered in imitation of a natural 



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