Calls at Suburban Gardens. 



where it either remains and condenses, or is let out by different openings 

 in the brick-work, to fill the atmosphere of the house. The boiler requires 

 little or no attention, being supplied by a pipe (a) communicating with a 



pond in the pleasure ground ; a float in the boiler (b) operates like a com- 

 mon ballcock, in regulating the supply ; near the main pipe (c) there is a 

 safety valve (d), and a manhole for cleaning out sediment. The cover is 

 very judiciously coated over with clay (e) to retain the heat. The pine 

 plants over the vaults are set in tan, merely to retain the pots in an equa- 

 ble degree of moisture. Another flue is conducted along the front of the 

 house to heat its atmosphere, and thus, by means of steam and smoke 

 jointly, Mr. Shennan keeps up that powerful degree of heat and moisture, 

 which is evidently the principal cause of the extraordinary, and we might 

 say, unequalled luxuriance of his plants. The soil in which they are planted 

 appears to be nothing more than turfy loam and rotten dung ; but we 

 hope, by and by, Mr. Shennan will speak for himself on this subject. 



In the open garden we observed a very early variety of pea, resembling 

 the frame sort, but at least a fortnight earlier. The seed was obtained from 

 a Frenchman, formerly gardener to General Dumourier, at Ealing. An- 

 other early dwarf variety was procured from Guernsey. But the most valu- 

 able culinary crop which we observed, was a plantation of early emperor 

 cabbage, most of which were headed, and one plant eminently so, which 

 Mr. S. intends keeping for seed. We have little doubt from what we have 

 seen here, and at Mr. Greig's at Islington, and other places, that the early 

 emperor is the best early variety "of cabbage at present in use ; and we 

 would suggest to gardeners to recommend it to cottagers as a substitute for 

 the early Upsal, early York, and other common varieties. Mr. S. has been 

 remarkably successful in growing the orange, of which there is a fine show 

 in the conservatory. With Cactus speeiosus, and speciosissimus, Erythrina, 

 crista galla, and various other plants, he is also eminently successful. 



Wilmofs fruit garden, Isleworth, May 11.1 826. Thisimmense horticultural 

 establishment consists of upwards of 60 acres, in different gardens, attached 

 and detached, and surrounded for the most part by good walls. The grounds 

 are wholly occupied by fruit trees, fruit shrubs, and strawberries; for, with the 

 exception of tart rhubarb, Mr. W. cultivates no culinary vegetables. The 

 rhubarb he was the first to bring to market about eleven years ago ; he 

 now sends a waggon load at a time, and believes there may be 100 acres 

 under that crop in the neighbourhood of London ; a striking proof of the 

 important public and private advantages which result from the introduc- 

 tion of novelties of use or beauty into commerce. A similar remark may 

 be applied to " Wilmot's superb" strawberry, of which, as may be supposed, 

 there are extensive plantations here; orders are still executing, though 

 the plants are coming into flower : in two years it will be common in every 

 part of Europe, where strawberries are cultivated. Such are the advan- 

 tages of peace, and the public press. The large size of this fruit, and 



