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State of Gardening in Ireland. 



plant. I send you one 

 as a specimen {fig. 44.), 

 which has been in flower 

 for the last fortnight, 

 and I shall have some in 

 flower till the end of 

 November. 



I have often thought 

 that the London flower 

 growers might profit 

 by putting this method 

 in practice, the flowers 

 being sopeculiarly showy 

 that they cannot fail of 

 attracting general ad- 

 miration. It would, 

 however, be desirable 

 that the plants should 

 flower in April and the 

 succeeding months till 

 October; and I am now 

 making experiments with 

 that object in view, the 

 result of which I shall be 

 happy to communicate 

 through the medium of 

 your valuable work. 



Hampstead, Oct. 20. 1826. 



&c. 



James Gibson. 



Art. V. On tfie. present State of Gardening in Ireland^ with 

 Hints for its future Improvement. By Mr. James Fraser. 



{Continued from vol. i. p. 265.) 



To the northward of the environs of Dublin there is little 

 interesting, in a horticultural point of view, until we reach the 

 neighbourhood of Drogheda, except the following places, 

 which we will briefly notice. 



Hampton, the seat of the Rev. G. Hunilton, adjoining the 

 town of Balbriggan, is a place of cons derable extent; and, 

 although the gardens cannot be ranked with those of the first 



