THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



MARCH, 1828. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. 



Art. I. Some Account of the Dutch Manner of Forcing-, as 

 practised in the Kitchen-garden at Hylands, near Chelms- 

 ford, the Seat of P. C. Labouchere, Esq. F. H. S. From 

 Notes made there on November 7. 1827. 



A he park and the house at Hylands have been greatly 

 improved, within the last few years, by the present spirited 

 and wealthy occupier ; but the peculiar interest of this place 

 to a horticulturist, arises from the display of the Dutch mode 

 of forcing in the kitchen-garden. This department is con- 

 ducted under the direction of Mr. Francis Nieman, a gardener 

 brought over from Haarlem by Mr. Labouchere, for that 

 purpose, in 1824. Mr. Nieman does not meddle with the 

 theory of gardening, and does not at all approve of writing 

 books on his art ; but we owe it to him to say, that he showed 

 us every thing which we desired to see, and answered every 

 question we put to him with the greatest patience. He is a 

 most successful pi'actical gardener, wholly absorbed in, and 

 devoted to, his business, and assiduously attentive to order and 

 neatness, even in the most obscure parts of his forcing-ground 

 and working-sheds. 



The flower-garden and pleasure-ground department at 

 Hylands is under the direction of Mr. John Smith, a well- 

 informed young man, who understands his business. Every 

 thing under his care is in the best order. 



With the exception of the pine-apple, most of the fruits 

 and kitchen crops of British gardens are cultivated by Mr. 

 Nieman. The mode in which the vine and peach are forced 



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