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neat flower-garden in front. Opposite the entrance to Tap- 

 low House is another handsome cottage, with a beautiful 

 flower-garden in front, evidently under the superintending 

 care of Mr. Sprlngall ; so that the general impression, both 

 on entering and leaving the place, is that of comfort, neatness, 

 and fine flowers. 



WaJceriirs Nursery, Maide7ihead. — This nursery has only 

 been lately established ; and Mr. Wakerill is taking the most 

 effectual means of insuring success, viz., that of procuring all 

 the newest hardy plants from the Epsom and other nurseries 

 about London, and propagating them with rapidity. He 

 has a Wistarm Consequaw« in the corner of a frame con- 

 taining hot dung, and by training the shoots, as they grow, 

 concentrically round the frame, placing every alternate bud 

 over a pot of earth, he raises half as many plants as he has 

 buds in one summer. We never saw anything of the kind 

 more cleverly done. Last year Mr. Wakerill sold 50 plants 

 to the trade, from this two-light hot-bed, independently of 

 what he sold to his private customers, and kept. He is pro- 

 pagating Ribes- sanguineum with equal facilit}^, from cuttings 

 of the young wood. This nursery was in very high order, 

 and altogether we were exceedingly gratified with it, and with 

 the conversation of Mr. Wakerill. 



There are two Imis at Maidenhead having gardens, one by 

 the water side, which is chiefly remarkable as a landscape 

 garden, and the other at the Sun Inn, at the opposite end of 

 the town, noticed Vol. IIL p. 481., which is an ornamental or 

 flower garden, in the Dropmore manner. It is in as high 

 order as when we last examined it, and a distinguishing feature, 

 on entering it, is an acuminated semiglobe, like the Antheum 

 at Brighton, of pelargoniums, the base planted in soil raised 

 to a certain height of the requisite curve, and the remainder 

 in pots on a stage, which completes the figure. 



Park Place, Maitland, Esq. — We walked over the 



whole of the ruins, as they may be called, of this once mag- 

 nificent place, in company with the excellent and very intelli- 

 gent gardener, Mr. White; and often did we think of what it 

 must have been in the time of the Prince de Ligne, when he 

 went over it with its then proprietor. General Conway. At 

 that time between forty and fifty men were employed in keep- 

 ing it in order, and now there are only three, with one woman, 

 kept for the same purpose. To expect any thing like high 

 keeping, therefore, is quite out of the question, though it is 

 really wonderful how much Mr. White has been able to effect 

 with means so circumscribed. We cannot help deeply re- 

 gretting that such a place is not kept up as it ought to be. 



