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calls loudlj' for reprobation. We conceive it to be the duty 

 of architects, and of all professional men, to be ahead of their 

 employers in point not only of scientific knowledge and taste 

 in their art, but in the knowledge of what constitutes all the dif- 

 ferent comforts, conveniences, and luxuries of a dwelling-house; 

 and we therefore think that they ought to refuse their consent 

 to an employer who should propose to design or construct 

 such unwholesome apartments as those to which we allude. 



We had no time to look at the exterior architecture of 

 Kemp Town, and other new buildings, in such a way as to 

 receive lasting impressions from particular edifices. The ge- 

 neral effect oiBi-unswick Square, and the terrace of that name 

 fronting the sea, is grand, but would have been grander still 

 if the terrace had been more distinctly broken into parts, by 

 advancing, retiring, and high and low masses, without which 

 no whole, however much it may strike at first, will ever be 

 worth looking at for any length of time. 



The area of the square is laid out by Mr. Stent, a gardener, 

 in clumps so placed as to protect one another from the sea 

 breeze. He mentioned that of the two species of Zamarix, 

 the T. gallica throve the best. He also mentioned that the 

 common elder grew luxuriantly, and that there was a new 

 Dutch variety in the garden of the pavilion which was found 

 to grow faster than the indigenous one. Mr. Stent has a 

 small nursery. No. 48., on the London Road, containing some 

 showy flowering plants, and in very good order ; his son is a 

 professional collector and preserver of objects of natural his- 

 tory, and has a good many butterflies, moths, and Coleoptera, 

 for sale. 



Parsons' Flower -Garden, 105. Western Road, contains a very 

 good vinery, with a stage well stocked with showy sorts of gera- 

 niums. We found Mr. Parsons destroying insects on some of his 

 pot plants, by placing them in an empty barrel set on end, put 

 ting on the lid quite close, and blowing in tobacco smoke by 

 the bunghole. After they remain an hour, they are taken 

 out, and syringed with clean water. 



Rogers's Flower-Garden, 25. Regent Place. — There is a good 

 vinery, and it contained an ample ci'op of grapes nearly full- 

 grown, but the berries of many of the bunches were shriveled 

 up, owing to the mistaken practice of taking off" the leaves in 

 order to allow the sun to ripen the fruit. Taking off" the 

 leaves which proceed from or near the foot-stalks of any fruit, 

 can only accelerate maturity by stopping the supply of nourish- 

 ment; in consequence of which the fruit becomes shriveled, 

 and, while its skin is coloured by the direct influence of the 

 sun, its juices remain unchanged, or at least unsweetened and 



