538 General Results of a Gardening Tour : — 



are in favour of reading gardeners, rendered comfortable by 

 adequate wages and sufficiently good dwellings. Grapes are 

 grown as well in the neighbourhood of Liverpool as they 

 are any where else in England ; perhaps better ; probably 

 from the greater difficulties which the growers have to con- 

 tend with. The father of Liverpool grape-growers is Mr. 

 Cunningham of the Liverpool Nursery, who has been a 

 grape-grower in Lancashire for nearly half a century. We 

 have never seen finer grapes exhibited at the London Horti- 

 cultural Society's meetings, than we saw at Smedley Hall, 

 and other places round Manchester, and at Mr. Roskell's, 

 and other places round Liverpool. The first floral and hor- 

 ticultural society in Lancashire was established at Preston, 

 though it has lately fallen off from want of encouragement. 

 We were surprised to find so few villas in the suburbs of 

 this thriving town ; but a projected railway, which will con- 

 nect it with Manchester and other towns, will infuse new 

 vigour into its manufactures and commerce, and high gar- 

 dening will then come into use. Mr. Taylor here is a very 

 spirited nurseryman, and gets all the newest things ; so that, 

 whenever there is an adequate demand, the supply is ready. 

 Till lately the taste for gardening has been dormant in the 

 neighbourhood of Lancaster ; but, since the establishment of 

 flower and fruit shows, some ladies have begun to compete, 

 and this circumstance has directed their attention to flori- 

 culture as a science. Carnations and auriculas are admirably 

 grown by Conolly and Sons, and by other nurserymen ; and 

 our correspondent Mr. Saul, a man of strong and original 

 intellect, and of great patriotism and disinterestedness, has 

 turned his attention to the introduction of new fruits ; and, 

 for this purpose, has established his Pomological Garden, and 

 entered into correspondence with the first nurseries in Britain 

 and America. Gardening is not much encouraged about 

 Carlisle ; but it will doubtless receive a stimulus from the 

 improvement which that town and its neighbourhood may 

 expect from the railroad now constructing between Carlisle 

 and Newcastle ; and which, it is estimated, will be completed 

 in three or four years from this time. Between Carlisle and 

 Dumfries, there are few opportunities of gardening, from the 

 unfi'equency of gentlemen's seats. There is a gardeners' 

 benefit society at Liverpool, which Mr. Rollis informed us 

 is one of the richest, in proportion to the number of sub- 

 sciibers, in the kingdom. Its rules and regulations are about 

 to be confirmed, according to the act of parliament respecting 

 benefit societies ; and, when this is done, we are promised 

 a copy for publication. The Walton Nursery library is in 



