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This sum, he said, was sufficient to pay 14 men throughout the 

 year, and that number would keep the gardens in the highest 

 possible order and neatness. As far as we recollect, when we 

 saw these gardens in 1826, there were only three or four men 

 employed on them, and many parts were then in disorder, and 

 going to decay. We hope some one interested in this subject will 

 look into it, for the sake of the beauty of the neighbourhood and 

 the credit of gardening. It is highly desirable that there should 

 be at least one place, in the geometrical style, kept up for ever 

 in high order, as a standing specimen of that mode of art. Wrest 

 Park, we believe, was one of the very last gardening works of 

 London and Wise. 



Walling/ford. — Aug. 10. This is a comfortable little town, on 

 the site of a Roman station. The ancient fosse forms three 

 right-angled sides of a square, of which the Thames is the fourth. 

 A few years ago, Wallingford was unknown in the annals of 

 gardening ; but of late it has become celebrated for florists, of 

 whom our esteemed correspondent, the Rev. J. Tyso, constitutes 

 the life and soul. Two other florists of eminence, whom we 

 visited, are Mr. Allnatt, jun., the son of the mayor of the town, 

 and Mr. Clarke, a banker. Mr. Tyso is well known by his 

 Catalogue of Ranunculuses, one of the best which has ever been 

 published, and of which he has just produced a new edition for 

 the year 1833. (See IX. 612.) By this it appears that Mr. Tyso's 

 son is possessed of the same enthusiasm for flowers as his father, 

 and that the latter intends, in a very short time, to transfer the 

 whole of this department of his occupations to the former. We 

 first visited Mr. Tyso's garden, in which we found the laying of 

 carnations in a state of forwardness ; the first crop of ranun- 

 culus roots was taken up and dried ; the second crop was in 

 full foliage, but not yet showing flower stems; the collection 

 of heartseases was beginning to fade; and the georginas, for 

 the greater part, were in bloom. The miscellaneous collection 

 of Mr. Tyso's garden included a select assortment of pelargo- 

 niums, a few heaths, some of the newest annuals, and several of 

 the better sorts of roses, and other flowering shrubs, such as the 

 different noisettes, wistaria, chimonanthus, &c. Mr. Tyso has 

 four gardens, of which we saw three. The fourth is a kitchen* 

 garden. The garden of Mr. Tyso's residence may be considered 

 that of the parsonage-house of the very respectable body (the 

 Baptists) to which he belongs, and it is in part used as a burial- 

 ground. It was something new to us to see peach trees arranged 

 on the walls, and graves and tombstones in the compartments; but 

 on expressing our surprise to the reverend occupier, he replied, 

 that, if his congregation continued to increase as rapidly as it was 

 now doing, the whole of his garden might be occupied in the same 

 manner. We were much gratified to learn, from this gentleman, 



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