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Notes of a Tour in Oct. 1825. 



ously known at Kew, and by a paper on forcing cherries in the 

 London Horticultural Society's Transactions, busily occupied in 

 making up that day's supply for the kitchen and the dessert. 

 A large sheet of paper has a printed column down the left-hand 

 margin, enumerating every description of kitchen-garden pro- 

 duct, each article having a line ruled across the page ; then there 

 is a vertical column for every day in the month, headed as in the 

 table below, with the days of the week. Fifty-two of these printed 

 sheets are required for the year. The first thing the gardener 

 does, is to enter in the table, under the day of the month, and 

 day of the week, the articles he is about to send off; noting such 

 things as are sent by weight or measure, by inserting their weight 

 or measure after them ; but simply inserting the number in 

 figures when the articles are sent by number : thus : — 



January. 

 Sent on 



1st. 

 Friday. 



2d. 

 Saturday. 



3d. 

 Sunday. 



4th. 

 Monday. 



Potatoes - 



Melons 

 Grapes 



Small salad 

 Cucumbers 



2 pecks com- 

 mon. 



1 pk. kidneys. 



2 Cantaloups. 



2 lb. black 

 Hamburgh. 



A lb. sweet- 

 water. 



1 pint. 



2 brace. 



3 pecks com- 

 mon. 



1 green flesh. 



1 black rock. 



2 lb. black 

 Hamburgh. 



i lb. sweet- 

 water. 



I pint. 



4 brace. 



3 pecks com- 

 mon. 



2 lb. Black 

 Prince. 



1 lb. musca- 

 dine. 



i pint. 



6 brace. 



2 pecks com- 

 mon. 



1 peck kidneys. 



2 Lady Chile's 

 green flesh. 



2 lb. Black 

 Prince. 



1 lb. musca- 

 dine. 



1 pint. 



4 brace. 



The items being filled into the table, the next thing is to copy 

 off on a slip of paper, the names and quantities of the articles 

 sent, which paper is delivered as a bill of parcels by the man 

 with the donkey-cart to the clerk of the kitchen. 



A similar plan is pursued in some other great places ; but, 

 instead of entering them in a table, they are entered in a journal, 

 which is sent to the kitchen along with the articles, and brought 

 back again to the gardener. If nothing is said or w^ritten by the 

 clerk or cook, it is concluded that every thing entered for that 

 day has been received safe, and is of a satisfactory quality. 



We found the open garden excellently cropped with large 

 supplies of those standard articles of winter consumption, 

 broccoli, celery, and endive. In the houses -was a large supply 

 of retarded black and white grapes, pine-apples that promised 

 a succession during the whole winter, and a fig-house in full 

 crop. No attention seemed any where to be paid to neatness or 

 oi'derly keeping ; but every effort to the production of excellent 

 crops. 



