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tial, ancient brick wall. Against the wall stood the cankered 

 stumps of three pear trees, an old fig tree not nailed, a vine, 

 a peach and two apricots ruined by age moss and gum, and, 

 what we were rather surprised at, a young apple tree. There 

 were also some young forest trees, self-sown willows, and birch 

 trees, growing out of the coping of the wall. The walks were 

 without edgings, and not gravelled. A few fruit trees, chiefly 

 pears, en quenouille, without fruit, and with the bark covered 

 with moss, stood in the quarters ; and in the borders were 

 some cui'rants with stems 3 and 4 ft. high, and matted, which, 

 the gardener said, preserved the fruit till Christmas ; one or 

 two gooseberries on tall stems, and a few raspberries and 

 wood strawberries. The compartments were cropped with 

 artichokes, field cabbage, celery scarcely if at all earthed up, 

 kidneybeans, spinage lately sown for winter and spring use, 

 red beet, leeks, sorrel in a considerable quantity, and scor- 

 zonera. In the borders were Coreopsis tinctoria, double 

 perennial sunflowers, mallows, and a few other things. What 

 is remarkable, there was a small pine-pit, the plants shaded 

 with straw mats ; and a small green-house with Cactus spe- 

 ciosissima, Crassula obliqua, and other succulents, i^icus 

 indica, Capsicum ^momum PlinzV, Brugmansm arborea, 

 Aloysi« citriodora, one or two pomegranates, orange trees, 

 and myrtles. The walks had lately been hoed and raked, and 

 the gardener told us that the broad walks and carriage-roads, 

 in both fronts of the house, were cleaned by harrows drawn 

 by horses or oxen, and afterwards raked smooth by men. 

 An immense quantity of linen was drying on lines in front of 

 the house; and a very decent, good-looking, elderly woman 

 told us that the family linen was washed only twice a year, and 

 that this was one of the times. 



{To be continued.) 



Art. II. On Parochial Museums and Public Gardens, and on 

 Dancing and Music, as Means of educating the Feelings of the 

 Laborious Classes. By Variegata. 



Sir, 

 In perusing the interesting communication from Mr. Spence, 

 which appeared in the last Number of the Gardener's Magazine, 

 it appears to me that, with all the good sense and benevolence 

 which it breathes, he has omitted two things, which would, I 

 am apt to believe, tend more to the improvement, as well as 

 gratification, of the lower orders of society than any thing that 



