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Sweetwater, which is probably the same which is elsewhere 

 called Grove End Sweetwater; Canon Hall Muscat; and Wil- 

 moVs black Hamburgh or Meiv Dutch black Hamburgh, as it is 

 variously called. This last is a very productive, beautiful, 

 and curious variety, the bunches and berries being equally as 

 large as the old black Hamburgh, but the berries have the ap- 

 pearance of having been rounded by repeated strokes of a 

 hammer. 



Another house at the establishment of Mr. Wilmot, is heat- 

 ed by a hot air stove of the most approved construction, and, 

 as I was assured, by an incredibly small quantity of fuel, or 

 expense. The stove is composed of two parts; an inner 

 stove, in which the fuel is placed, and an outer, which con- 

 sists of an upright cylinder of sheet iron, with an interval or 

 space, through which the colder and denser air rises as it 

 becomes heated, and thence is dispersed in the house. This 

 outer stove has a circular lid or covering. The air which 

 feeds the fuel is admitted direct by a tube from the outside of 

 the building. The smoke or vapor from the burning fuel 

 passes horizontally the length of the building, by a small sheet 

 iron funnel, three or four inches in diameter. Oblong troughs, 

 with semicircular bottoms, rest on the funnel at intervals; 

 these, being filled with v/ater, communicated a genial moisture 

 to the atmosphere. 



Of the kinds of pears which are most extensively cultivated 

 by Mr. Wilmot, for great profit and productiveness, I will 

 only name the Capiaumont, the Williams's Bon Chretien or 

 Bartlett, the Marie Louise; the Jean de Witt is another new 

 and most productive winter pear, which is much cultivated by 

 him. Mr. Wilmot, for 'profit, places his pear trees in close 

 order, or about sixteen feet asunder, and allows them to 

 branch low. These bore enormous crops in 1840. At the 

 venerable Mr. Kirke's nursery and fruit establishment, at 

 Brompton, his trees, both of the pear and apple, are also for 

 profit planted in remarkably close order, or ten or twelve feet 

 asunder, and allowed to branch quite down to the ground. 

 These in like manner bore enormous crops in that year. 

 The garden of Mr. Kirke was formerly part of the garden 

 belonging to Oliver Cromwell, who resided at Brompton while 

 Lord Protector, and in the venerable mansion contiguous to 

 this garden. The old oaken door, beneath the brick arch- 

 way which separates the gardens, both formerly belonging to 



