THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



OCTOBER, 1834. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notes on Gardens and Country Seats, visited, from July 27- 

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

 shire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Hamp- 

 shire, Sussex, and Kent. By the Conductor. 



{Continued from p. 419.) 



Tottenham Park Wharf. — Aug. 17. This wharf is kept by 

 Mr. Stanley, who also rents a farm, and has a general charge, as 

 substeward, over a considerable tract of country on Lord Ayles- 

 bury's estate. Under his care is the principal part of the 

 cottages which have been improved by Mr. Iveson (see p. 413.). 

 We rode to several of them with Mr. Stanley, who gave us 

 numerous interesting details of their past, as compared with their 

 present, state. The people are still slaves to the poor laws' system ; 

 but wretched indeed must have been their condition before they 

 were commiserated by Mr. Iveson. In short, they were then 

 ignorant and savage enemies of the farmers, and of every other 

 class of men. Mr. Stanley, with the approbation of the late mar- 

 chioness, introduced the four girls' schools before mentioned; 

 but twice that number of schools, both for infants and for 

 the youth of both sexes, are wanted. Nothing great, however, 

 can be done, in the way of educating the poor, till a national 

 system of instruction is established. Mr. Stanley is from the 

 Duke of Sutherland's estates at Trentham, and has enlarged 

 and liberal ideas upon the subject of territorial improvement. 

 On his wharf we saw a large heap of Bath ashes ; viz., the street 

 sweepings of that city, after they have been laid in a heap, and 

 suffered to ferment, and afterwards sifted or screened, in the 

 manner of the poudrette at Paris. They are sold to the farmers 

 at 4<%d. a bushel. The Newbury ashes, which are made from 

 turf dug out of the Vale of Kennet, sell from 8d. to 4<d. a bushel, 

 according as they are more or less earthy. With the facility of 

 procuring these ashes, and the permission to cut as much fern 

 as they choose from the Park at Tottenham for litter, it is not 

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