SS6 General Results of a Gardening Tour. 



tolerated, and we heartily wisli that the legislature would 

 interfere in the manner suggested, p» 4 1 0. 



Nm^series. — The Bache Pool nursery at Chester, Messrs. 

 F. and J. Dickson, and the Walton nursery near Liverpool, 

 Mr. Skirving, are by far the two most complete nurseries of 

 hardy things that we have seen since we left London : 

 mdeed, for articles grown in the open air, and for order and 

 neatness, there is no nursery about London which can be at 

 all compared with them. The Bache Pool nursery contains the 

 best collection of rare plants, and the other excels in the style 

 in which the grounds are arranged about Mr. Skii'ving's house, 

 and in the arrangement and keeping of the whole. There 

 is an approach road to Mr. Skirving's house through turf, 

 trees, and a lawn varied by beds of shrubs and flowers and by 

 rock work ; and the edgings to the walks and beds are entirely 

 to our mind. We recommend them as a study to every gar- 

 dener about Liverpool, and their inspection to every employer 

 of a gardener in that district, who is ambitious of having his 

 place in the best style of keeping. The general foreman here, 

 Mr. Dall, and the foreman of the houses and botanic ground, 

 Mr. Smith, are most intelligent men, and they perfectly under- 

 stand our ideas as to the keeping of turf edgings. The other 

 nurseries we must leave to be described hereafter. Li the 

 mean time, we have to express our regret at having quitted 

 Preston, Lancaster, and Annan without seeing all the nur- 

 series at those towns. Our having seen only a part will not, 

 we trust, be attributed to any partiality. We have been much 

 gratified to find that the practice is very general among the 

 trade of subscribing to this Magazine, and of lending it out 

 to such gardeners as are their customers. Many are thus 

 enabled to profit from it who would not otherwise see it. 

 The contents of a borrowed book are generally treasured up 

 with more care than those of a purchased one, because the 

 reader knows that he will not have the book to refer to, and 

 therefore must endeavour to remember what it contains. 



We have seen no Market-Gardens of any note since writing 

 our last. Many of the private gardens about Manchester and 

 Liverpool send the finer vegetables, and also fruits, to market ; 

 and the vegetables sold in large quantities are raised by 

 small farmers in the sandy districts in the neighbourhood of 

 these towns, as at Knutsford, Altringham, Ormskirk, Everton, 

 &c. The mode in which the Altringham carrot is cultivated 

 for seed shall be detailed hereafter. 



The Liverpool Botanic Garden is about to be removed to a 

 new site a little farther off; but which, unless the space of 

 twelve acres allotted, for it be kept open by placing beside it 



