THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



APRIL, 1832. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. General Results of a Gardening Tour, during July, 

 August, and part of September, in the Year 1 SSI, from Dum- 

 fries, by Kirkcudbright, Ayr, and Greenock, to Paisley. By the 

 Conductor. 



{Continued from p. 5.) 



In the introduction to the preceding portion of our tour, we 

 strongly recommended to young gardeners to prepare them- 

 selves for filling the situation, not only of a head gardener, but 

 also that of a general manager on a gentleman's estate. We 

 see every day more and more occasion for giving this advice ; 

 and we are happy to find it followed up by two very intelli- 

 gent correspondents in the present Number (p. 134. and 

 p. 137.). Mere gardening, whether as a commercial pursuit 

 by nurserymen and florists, or as a personal and professional 

 service, never was, at any time within our recollection, at so 

 low an ebb as it is at present. Nurserymen are becoming 

 bankrupts all over the country, and there can be no doubt 

 that many of them, whose names are not gazetted, have been 

 obliged to compound with their creditors. So many master 

 gardeners out of place, and journeymen in want of employ- 

 ment, we have never before seen about London : in the nur- 

 series, which formerly used to be a sort of asylum for them, 

 they cannot now find employment even at 125. a week. That 

 this state of depression will be followed by a reaction, and that 

 at no distant period, is to be expected, because action and reac- 

 tion are always reciprocal ; but that either the nursery busi- 

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