THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



OCTOBER, 1833. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notes on Gardens and Country Seats, X)isited,froin July 27. 

 to September 16., during a Tour through Part of Middlesex, 

 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, 

 Hampshire, Sussex, and Kent. By the Conductor. 



The last time we passed deliberately through this tract of 

 country was in 1812 and 1813 ; and, comparing it as it is now 

 with what it was then, we have been much gratified by some 

 things, and found cause for regret at several others. We have 

 found a decided improvement in the cottage gardens, we may 

 say everywhere, by the more frequent appearance of flowers 

 in them, and by the prevalence of the China rose, trained 

 against the walls. The cottage dwellings are, on the whole, 

 not worse ; and on some estates they are a good deal im- 

 proved. Many cottages, which before had no gardens, have 

 now considerable portions of ground added to them ; unfor- 

 tunately, not generally adjoining the cottage, but in some 

 neighbouring field ; but still there is now hardly a cottage 

 which has not ground attached to it in some way or other. 

 Here and there throughout the country we observed labour- 

 ers' cottages, of a superior description, erected or erecting, 

 with platforms or terraces round them, and lofty ornamental 

 chimney tops, with ornamental barge-boards, pendants, and 

 pinnacles. We think we may fairly trace the origin of these 

 to the circulation of our Eiicijclopcedia of Cottage, Fann, 

 and Villa Architecture i a book which, we are happy to say, 

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