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They have also put up some extensive erections for Earl Powis, a nobleman 

 to whom the horticultural world is deeply indebted, for the Hon. R. 

 Clive, and various other noblemen. They deserve every encouragement, 

 and as a proof that they are receiving it, we may just mention, that in ad- 

 dition to what has been done at Syon, the same manufacturers are now 

 engaged in erecting a most extensive range of the same kind at Alnwick 

 Ca°stle. Messrs. Jones and Clarke, of Birmingham, who erected the mag- 

 nificent metallic conservatories at the Grange and Wollaton Hall, and 

 Messrs. Bailey, of London, who erected the grand glass dome at Bretton 

 Hall, are equallv entitled to praise and to patronage. 



The back sheds to these hot-houses are now fitting up ; besides potting 

 benches, places for pots, tan, &c, they will contain an Oldacre mushroom- 

 house, a fruit-room, the journeymen's living room, and sleeping apart- 

 ments, &c. The pits are on an excellent plan, which we shall, on a future 

 occasion, describe. We were much gratified to see wooden shutters intro- 

 duced for covering them, a mode of protection from cold and rain superior 

 in our opinion to any other for pits, frames, and even hot-houses and green- 

 houses. That it is a profitable mode it may be sufficient to mention, that 

 it is adopted by Mr. Wilmot, who grows pines and forces strawberries ex- 

 tensively for the London market. 



Mr. F. occupies one of the best head gardeners' dwelling-houses which 

 we have seen, from the designs of Mr. Parsons, and surpassed only by that 

 in the gardens of Earl Surrey at Worksop Manorhouse, Nottinghamshire, 

 erected from the designs of Mr. Abraham, from whom and Mr. Aeon, we 

 expect a communication on the subject. To give an idea of the order and 

 method which enters into the system of planning improvements and doing 

 business at Syon, Mr. F.'s dwelling house is so placed between the botanic 

 and forcing gardens, and commands such a full view of both ranges in the 

 forcing department, that, from his window, he can see even into the interior of 

 the houses. The principal walks are also in full view, so that no movement 

 can be made that escapes his notice, nor can an individual enter or go 

 out of the garden or pleasure-ground without being observed. Such is 

 the neatness, order, and high keeping of the forcing department, that a 

 man is kept entirely for the purpose of cleaning the paths of the hot- 

 houses, looking after the back sheds, the stock-holes, fuel, and ashes, and 

 for scouring the doors of the furnaces, which shine like cast-iron parlour 

 stoves. Setting aside the neatness of this management, the effect of clean- 

 liness in promoting the health of plants is too generally admitted to re- 

 quire observation ; good management in the stock-holes is a great saving 

 of fuel, and by keeping the furnaces in such high order, they will last 

 double the usual time. 



Nothing can be more gratifying than to see a nobleman employing a part 

 of his income in so judicious and spirited a manner ; and this case in par- 

 ticular affords a proof of what we have frequently asserted, that much 

 more would be done by the landed proprietors of this country, if gar- 

 deners and other managers of superior talents and judgment were more 



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We take up this subject at the request of several correspondents, and in 

 consequence of conversations which we have had with various gardeners 

 about London and in the country in the course of a late three weeks' tour. 



