THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



OCTOBER, 1836. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



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

 to September 16. 1833, during a Tour through Part of Middlesex, 

 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire^ 

 Hampshire, Sussex, and Kent. By the Conductor. 



(^Continued from vol. xi. p. 449.) 



i\.T the interval of nearly a year we resume the notes on our 

 tour, and print them as they were written at the time, on the 

 evenings of every day. It may, perhaps, be necessary, for the 

 sake of some of our readers, to premise that the time when these 

 notes were made has very little to do with their value, whatever 

 that value may be. That value depends entirely on the prin- 

 ciples developed and illustrated by the criticisms made on dif- 

 ferent places and scenes ; and hence, as far as the reader is 

 concerned, it matters little whether these places and scenes were 

 seen a few months, or a few years, before the time of publishing 

 the remarks on them. 



It would be far easier for us to fill this Magazine with papers 

 by our correspondents, on the cultivation of particular plants or 

 crops, than to write long articles in it ourselves; but we are 

 guided in selecting, preparing, or writing articles for publication, 

 solely by what we consider to be the wants of our readers, 

 whether practical gardeners, or their employers. It will be al- 

 lowed, we think, that, both in the culture of flowers and of culi- 

 nary crops and fruits, the present race of gardeners have arrived 

 at a very high degree of perfection ; and their employers, who 

 consume or enjoy these articles, we may conclude, must be very 

 good judges of them. The articles exhibited at the horticultural 

 shows in the neighbourhood of London, and throughout the 

 country, afford such a proof of the practical skill of gardeners 

 as cannot possibly be denied ; and the same shows afford also a 

 presumptive proof of the cultivated taste of the proprietors in 

 whose gardens these productions have been raised. What we 

 think both the employers of gardeners, and gardeners them- 



VoL. XII. — No. 79. pp 



