THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



OCTOBER, 1832. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



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

 August, and fart of September, in the Year \&?>\, from Diem- 

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

 Conductor. 



(Continued from p. 391.) 



In this fragment of our tour, we shall introduce a few words 

 on the agriculture of the west of Scotland ; and take next in 

 order field hedges, plantations, edgings of walks, lawns, 

 kitchen-gardens, and the construction of hot-houses. In a 

 succeeding fragment, which will appear in our Number for 

 December, we shall criticise the palace, mansion, villa, and 

 cottage residences, of this part of our route, and thus conclude 

 our tour. 



In the Agriculture of the West of Scotland, the cultivation of 

 turnips in rows has been carried to a very high degree of 

 perfection ; insomuch, that thirty tons per statute acre of 

 Swedish turnips are usually calculated on, when the soil and 

 weather are tolerably favourable. Carrots and mangold 

 wurtzel produce generally within one or two tons of the 

 same quantity, and common turnips and potatoes from two to 

 five tons more. One principal cause of this enormous pro- 

 duce is unquestionably the moisture of the climate ; but, at 

 the same time, much is owing to the culture, which is very 

 perfect. The rotation, on most soils, is, 1st, turnips, potatoes, 

 or other herbage or root, crop drilled, the dung being buried 

 in the drill, or naked fallow ; 2d, barley or wheat, with 



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