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September 14th ; Flitwick House, Bedfordshire, J. T. Brookes, Esq., Sep- 

 tember 15th; Ampthill Nursery, Mr. Thomas Gibbs, F.H.S., September 16th; 

 Whitmore Lodge, Sunning Hill, Berkshire, Robert Mangles, Esq. F.H.S., 

 September 20th ; Mrs. Hickman's Villa, near Golding, Surrey, September 



22d ; Villa of Wrightson, Esq., near Woking, Surrey, September 23d ; 



Golding Nursery, near Woking, Surrey, Mr. Donald, F.H.S., September 

 24th ; Pains Hill Park, Surrey, Countess of Carhampton, September 25th ; 

 Claremont, Surrey, Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburgh, September 25th ; 

 Deepdene, Surrey, Thomas Hope, Esq., September 26th ; Denbies, Surrey, 

 W. G. Dennison, Esq., September 26th ; Westlands Nursery, Dorking, 

 Surrey, September 27th; Bury Hill, Surrey, Robert Barclay, Esq. F.L.S. 

 H.S., September 27th ; Rooksnest, Surrey, C. H. Turner, Esq. F.L.S. 

 H.S., September 28th ; Bickley, Kent, John Wells, Esq. F.H.S., September 

 2Sth; Sundridge Park, Kent, Samuel Scott, Esq. F.H.S., September 28th; 

 Plaistow Lodge, Kent, Walter Boyd, Esq., September 28th; Bromley 

 Hill, Kent, Lord Farnborough, F.H.S. &c, September 29th. 



Of all these places the only one which came entirely up to our views of 

 neatness and high keeping was Bromley Hill ; certainly one of the most 

 judiciously laid out and best kept places of the size which we have ever 

 seen. It is also very much the style of place that we admire. The kitchen- 

 garden and reserve-grounds were not less neat and free from litter and 

 weeds than the pleasure-ground ; the walls were well covered with fruit 

 trees bearing good crops, and the compartments fully stocked with vege- 

 tables. The great object aimed at in the pleasure-ground is effect ; the 

 beautiful picturesque in regard to general views, show and ornament in 

 regard to flowers, dress and high keeping near the house, and pleasing 

 lines and forms every where. The head-gardener of this department, Mr. 

 James Nash, is most assiduously attentive ; he told us it required his utmost 

 exertion to keep things as they were ; we have sent him a copy of the first and 

 second volumes of the Gardener's Magazine, as a mark of our approbation, 

 and we hope his employers will continue the work to him, as a mark of theirs. 

 We have made a similar present to the head kitchen-gardener, Mr. James 

 Linn, and we hope the work will be continued to him, as well as to the other. 

 To his foreman, Mr. James Halley, who showed us through the garden, 

 and who takes in the Gardener's Magazine, we have sent the first ten 

 numbers of the Library of Useful Knowledge, and trust to his making a 

 good use of them, and continuing to take in the work. 



The place which we found in the second best order is the grounds of Flit- 

 wick House, which may be considered in the light of a Ferme Orne'e. There 

 is not much ground in high keeping here; but there are above twelve miles 

 of walks in natural and artificial woods, ten miles of which we walked over, 

 and found every part in the most appropriate order. This is the result 

 of a very judicious and highly commendable practice in Mr. Brookes, of 

 letting out all his shrubbery and copse-wood walks at so much a mile to 

 his labourers and their families, to hoe, mow, and otherwise keep neat, after 

 working hours. The consequence is, they are kept in perfect order all the 

 summer at very little expense, and the labourers are benefited. The thorn 

 hedges on the estate, and the grass fields, are kept free from weeds in the 

 same manner. The kitchen-garden was in perfect order, and highly pro- 

 ductive in every part. There is a botanic ground, an arboretum, an aviary, 

 and other things here which we shall afterwards have occasion to notice; 

 in the mean time we have presented Mr. Brookes's gardener, Trotter, 

 (who already takes in the Gardener's Magazine,) with Popular Philosophy, 

 published by Miller of Dunbar, as a mark of our approbation, and a testimony 

 of his professional skill and industry. 



The pleasure-ground at Whitmore Lodge comes up to the beau ideal 

 of the highest order and keeping ; the roses are gathered as they wither, 

 and the leaves as they drop, every morning; and in order that the leaves of 



