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with honied water for catching flies. Mr. Thompson found this form more 

 effective than any other. The glasses are made in Rotherham, and cost 5s. 

 each. The New Zealand spinage is cultivated here and in other gardens 

 in this part of the country, and much approved of as an autumn spinage. 

 Mr. T. grows excellent crops of strawberries in Mr. Knight's manner: — 

 1. He pricks out the runners in beds, in July. 2. He transplants these in 

 rows at the ordinary distance in the following spring. 3. He has a full crop 

 the third season, and having taken three crops, he digs in the whole. 



Mr. Cooper has the management of the botanic garden and pleasure- 

 ground : he excels in the growing of hot-house plants, and especially of Sci- 

 tamlneae ; he has seventeen species of Hedjchium, some of which are now 

 finely in bloom. The pitcher plant (iVep^nthes distillatoria) has been pro- 

 pagated by him, and grows vigorously; Orchidese also are very fine, and 

 Cactus truncata, speciosa, and speciosissima, with other showy plants, are 

 well grown. Amaryllis and Hedychium, being flowers of this season, were 

 finely in bloom. There is an excellent collection of herbaceous plants 

 arranged after the Linnean manner, a native flora, grass garden, rockwork, 

 aquarium, aviary, architectural green-house, rotunda, noble terrace walk, 

 and various other objects and scenes which a drizzling rain and the approach 

 of night prevented us from examining so fully as we could have wished. 

 Wretched road to Barnsley. 



Barnsleyto Bretton Hall, Oct. 13. — Handsome Gothic railing to Barnsley 

 churchyard, {fig. 1 63.) Roads metaled with the scoria from the iron works ; 

 bad field gates, without diagonal braces. 

 Parfaite (?), a seat on the right, finely 

 situated for hanging gardens and water- 

 works. Too much ground on the out- 

 side of the gate at Bretton Hall for the 

 extent of the park within. 



Bretton Hall has been celebrated for 

 upwards of twenty years for its gardens, 

 and deservedly so ; and there are at pre- 

 sent such additions and improvements 

 going forward as will maintain this cele- 

 brity. The principal of these is a mag- 

 nificent " domical" botanic stove, by 

 Messrs. Bailey of London {fig- 164.), 

 and the secondary are an elegant curvi- 

 linear vinery by the same mechanics, and ^ ■ 

 several culinary hot-houses and other )lj 

 improvements, under the direction of 

 Mr. M'Ewen, the gardener. A great 



deal has been done here since we saw the place in 1805, and the chief thing 

 to be regretted is that, as a whole, the pleasure-ground is so much intersected 

 by roads, walks, and gates, Half the roads, by a little arrangement, might 

 he done without or concealed, and some of the walks admit of improvement 

 in their direction. The recently erected curvilinear vinery is one of the 

 handsomest structures of the kind we ever saw, and if occasionally painted 

 will last for ages. Of the " domical" stove, which is 60 ft. high, we shall 

 say little, because it is not yet completed ; and after it is we expect to be 

 favoured with a plan and some account of it, after the manner of M'Arthur's 

 paper (Vol. I. p. 105.), by Mr. M'Ewen. [Mr. M'Ewen has since left 

 Bretton Hall, and we have therefore for the present given an elevation 

 of the grand " domical" hot-house from the original model in the posses- 

 sion of Messrs. W. and D. Bailey, the manufacturers.] We cannot, however, 

 avoid expressing our astonishment that the building containing the steam 

 apparatus should have been erected side by side with a glass dome ; it spoils 

 every thing, and should be immediately sunk and concealed. As the ground 



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