Calls at Suburbaji Gardens. 



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In the walled garden scenery, we noticed melons grown on a bed o( 

 dung in the open air, under hand-glasses, in the manner of cucumbers ; the 

 fruit, Mr. Ingram said, was considered of higher flavour than that grown 

 under glass. He has promised that we shall hear from him on the subject. 

 The mode of preparing strawberries for forcing, recommended by 

 Mr. Mitchinson (Vol. II. p. 590.), has been practised here for several 

 years. Mr. Ingram highly approves of it; but, instead of inserting three 

 runners into a pot, he inserts only one runner into a pot of the smallest 

 size. The pots are not plunged, but, in a fortnight from the time the small 

 stones are laid on the runner, the pot is found filled with roots, and the 

 plant is shifted, with the ball entire, into a pot of a larger size. The small 

 pots not being plunged saves some labour, but much depends on giving them 

 water in dry weather. The rapidity with which strawberry plants grow, 

 when so treated, is truly astonishing ; and Mr. Ingram agrees with us in 

 thinking, with Mr. Mitchinson, that this practice is decidedly preferable to 

 any other hitherto in use. Mr. Ingram's mode of wiring walls, and of 

 grafting geraniums and passion-flowers (Vol. III. p. 13. 102.) has been 

 already mentioned ; and we have only to bear testimony to his excellent 

 crops, and to the good order in which every thing at Frogmore is kept, not- 

 withstanding a seeming want of assistance. 



We noticed in the woods here, a peculiar kind of succulent leafy growth 

 protruding from the points of the shoots of the yew trees, which seems not 

 to be the effect of insects, but a true vegetable disease. After these growths 

 have attained about an inch in length, they wither and die off. Mr. Ingram 

 had never seen them anywhere else ; but we have since observed them at 

 the Duke of Devonshire's, at Chiswick. 



Royal Lodge, Windsor. July 28. — Since we last saw 

 this cottage, in 1819, slates of grey schistus have been 

 substituted for the thatch of the roof; the public road 

 has also been removed to a greater distance, and 

 several acres added to the lawn. The grounds are not 

 unpleasing, and the young trees are gracefully scattered 

 about; and what adds to every thing, the whole place is 

 in the very highest order and keeping, by Mr. Mitchill, 

 a most vigilant and judicious gardener. The spot on 

 which the cottage is built,is in no way marked by nature ; 

 the building may be said to stand in an open forest glade, 



which has been polished by 

 art, and ornamented with 

 numerous masses, patches, 

 groups of exotics, and scat- 

 tered roses and flowering 

 plants. The living rooms have 

 the comfort of an extensive 

 veranda, furnished with pots 

 of flowers in curious stands 

 ijftg. 62.), and with a large 

 conservatory richly decorated 

 with geraniums and festoons 

 of CobseX and heightened in 

 effect by lamps, and by sing- 

 ing birds flying about as if in a 

 state of nature. Two covered 

 ways of trelliswork and ivy, 

 favourable to' privacy and 

 seclusion, lead from the exr 

 tremities of the cottage, 



