514f General Results of a Gardening Tour : — 



of Mr. John Richardson and Serjeant Walmsley, Lune Villa, 

 Lune Terrace, Slyne House, Halton Hall, Halton Rectory, 

 Grasyard Hall, and *Quernmoor Park) ; Yealand (the villa 

 of William Waithman, Esq., and Moorecombe Lodge); 

 Milnthorpe (*Dallam Tower, and *Leven's Hall) ; Castle 

 Head (Eller Hall); Bowness (*Storr's Hall, and the garden 



of Starkey, Esq.); Ambleside (Rayrigg, Elleray the 



villa of the poet and professor Wilson, Rhydal Hall, Rhydal 

 Mount the residence of the poet Wordsworth, and Ivy Cot- 

 tage) ; Grasmere (the Hollies, and the cottage and grounds of 

 Samuel Barber, Esq.) ; Keswick (Vicar's Isle, Kerr's Nur- 

 sery, and the residence of the poet South ey) ; Penrith (Low- 

 ther Castle, *Brougham Hall, *Carlton Hall, and the Penrith 

 Nursery); High Hesketh (Armenthwaite Castle, andArmen- 

 thwaite Villa); Wetherall (* Corby Castle, and the bridge of 

 the Carlisle and Newcastle Railway) ; Carlisle (Hutton's 

 Nursery) ; Longtown (*Netherby) ; Langholm e (*Lang- 

 holme Lodge, Woodhouselee, Woodslee, and the Priory); 



Annan (the garden of Thom, Esq., and *Glen Stewart) ; 



and, lastly, Dumfries, where we remain to arrange our 

 Magazine of Natural Histo7y for September, and to write this 

 article, and some reviews and notices for the Gardener's Maga- 

 zine for October. 



Jlie Geology of this Tract of Country assumes two very dis- 

 tinct characters. First, the red sandstone, which our readers 

 will recollect had prevailed from the neighbourhood of Ban- 

 bury to near Ashbourne, and recommenced near Stockport, 

 continues thence through Manchester to Chester, and by 

 Liverpool to the neighbourhood of Lancaster ; leaves ofF 

 there, and recommences at Penrith, continuing to Dumfries. 

 Secondly, the schistus or clay rock, which we had not before 

 met with, commences a few miles beyond Lancaster, and 

 continues throughout the hills and mountains of the lake dis- 

 trict. The schistus on the west side of Yorkshire adjoining 

 Lancashire is covered by thick beds of limestone, and some- 

 times alternates with beds both of limestone and sandstone ; 

 the same beds are continued into Lancashire towards the lake 

 district. The schistus and the limestone strata rise at the same 

 angle ; but Mr. Bakewell, who is well acquainted with the 

 country, informs us, in his Introduction to Geology^ that the 

 thick beds of schistus, or greywacke slate, are disposed to 

 cleave or divide into partings nearly vertical, which have been 

 mistaken for strata seams. Some modification of the grey- 

 wacke may be said to form the prevailing rock of the lake 

 district, but there is some granite near Shap in Westmore- 

 land, and also near Wastewater. Good roofing slate is found 

 in various parts of the lake district. In the district imme- 



