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less than he has described them in the Gardener's Magazine. T noticed his 

 border, and thought it was rich ; the borders that his young trees were 

 planted in were, as I thought, very much so, on a moist subsoil : not that I 

 examined the subsoil, but as Carlton is situated in a level part of the 

 county, and not far from the banks of the river (Ouse ?), one may rather 

 conclude that it is moist and sandy. There is no system of training, which 

 I am acquainted with, so well adapted as that of Mr. Seymour for a good 

 border; because the gardener has the power of exhausting it in making 

 profitable wood, whereas in the old system it would, in all probability have 

 been to be cut away ; should the side-branches be too weak, and the leader 

 too strong, he has the chance of raising the former into a more erect form, 

 and thus making them receive some of the sap, which otherwise would be 

 propelled into the leader, and vice versa. Though I have said thus much 

 m favour of Mr. Seymour's system, he is a person that 1 never saw but 

 once : his son went round the garden with me. — John Pearson, Gardener to 

 W.L. Childe, Esq,, Kinlet, near Beivdly, Salop. Dec. 6. 1830. 



Normandy Cress. — Sir, It is rather remarkable that this vegetable should 

 have been in England nearly fifty years, and not generally known to the 

 present day. Mi". M'Intosh deserves the thanks of all practical men who 

 are not acquainted with the good and useful properties of this species of 

 cress. His paper on the subject will probably lead to a more general cul- 

 ture of that valuable salad herb, the history of which is, that some time 

 before the close of the American war (1783) most of the French and other 

 captive officers were placed on parole at and near Bath ; and to them we 

 are indebted for introducing several good vegetables, particularly Normandy 

 Cress, Bath Cos Lettuce, and Brussels Sprouts. I saw some plants of 

 each kind growing in a gentleman's garden in Northamptonshire, who had 

 just received them from his friends at Bath: this was in the year 1783. 

 The next time I saw it was in the garden at Bulstrode, in 1789, whence 

 I obtained some seed ; and I have cultivated it ever since. The late Mi-. 

 North, nurseryman at Lambeth, had seed of it from me, and put its name 

 in his catalogue about the year 1794. Mi-. Malcolm of Kensington has its 

 name in his catalogue at the present time. A nurseryman of Newark sent 

 me some seed of it last month (Jan. 1831.) as a new and valuable salad 

 herb, just imported from Brussels, by a nobleman of that neighbourhood,— 

 J, Thompson, sen. Welbeck, Feb. 1831. 



Art. VL Queries and Anstvers. 



Gardens of Scotland,for the Statistics of the EncijclopcBdia of Gardening. — 

 A friend from the neighbourhood of Edinburgh has written to us, h-ecom- 

 mending the following list of gardens, with the names of the gardeners to 

 whom we should apply : 



Dalkeith Garden, Mi-. Macdonald. Kinfauns, Mr. Roberston. 



Dunmore Park,_ Mr. Taylor ; the St. Martin's, Wm. M'Donald, Esq. 



finest collection of fruit in gardener's name unknown. 



Britain. Lynedoch, Mr. Hosie. 



Edmonstone, Mr. M'Naughton. Methven Castle, Mr. Bishop. 



Donebristle, Earl of Moray, Mr. Gordon Castle, Mr. Saunders. 



Kelly or Mr. Gavin. Cullean House, gardener's name not 



Raith, Mr. Norvell. known. 



Wemyss Castle, Mr. Simpson. Fyvie Castle, gardener's name not 



Woodhall, Mr. Henderson. known. 



Scone, Mr. Beattie. Barcaldine, gardener's name not 



Dunkeld, Mi-. Rose. known. 



Instead of writing privately to these diiFerent gardeners, we take this 



