350 Notes on Gardens at Brighton, 



amusements. There is a labyrinth at the farther extremity of 

 the garden, and a large building for refreshments at the main 

 entrance. It does not, however, seem in a thriving state, for 

 most of the wooden structures are tumbling to pieces, and the 

 flower-beds were neglected, and, instead of a gardener among 

 them, we found a cow. 



Rose Hill Nursery, Messrs. J. and G. Evans. We noticed 

 this garden on a former occasion (G. M. for 1838, p. 501.) as 

 being cultivated with great spirit, and receiving the additions of 

 various plant structures. In our present rapid glance we ob- 

 served admirable crops of grapes, a splendid show of geraniums 

 and other greenhouse plants, and the whole garden in the very 

 highest order and keeping. Neither of the Messrs. Evans were 

 brought up to gardening, which is, doubtless, the reason why 

 they are so fond of the pursuit, and why they keep everything 

 in such excellent order. Though we have little room for details, 

 yet we must not forget to record the dimensions and crop of one 

 vinery. Length, 45 ft.; breadth, 10 ft. ; height at back, 10 ft.; 

 at front, 3 ft. Heated by one fire, over which there is a boiler, 

 the water from which circulates in pipes at the back of the house, 

 while the smoke passes along a flue in front. The vines have 

 been six years planted, are spurred in, and on each shoot only 

 one bunch is left to be matured ; these bunches commonly 

 averaging 1 lb. weight each. They are calculated to ripen in the 

 first week of July. The weight of grapes cut annually from this 

 house is from 3 cwt. to 3\ cwt. ! This produce is very seldom 

 equalled, and we are not aware that it has been often surpassed. 

 The border is a strong chalky loam, 2 ft. deep, on a chalky bot- 

 tom, perfectly dry ; the soil is well enriched with stable manure 

 and night-soil, and mulched on the surface, but not cropped. 



No?-man , s Market-Garden, at the eastern extremity of Brigh- 

 ton, in Park Street, is remarkable for its vineries, which form a 

 range 400 ft. long, 1 5 ft. wide, and 1 2 ft. high at back. There 

 is no front glass, but a parapet of 2 ft. with openings with wooden 

 shutters for admitting air, and there are corresponding openings 

 and shutters at the top of the back wall. Both are opened by 

 jointed wooden levers, in a very simple manner. These houses 

 were put up about twenty years ago ; and they are heated by 

 flues, which Mr. Norman, after nineteen years' experience, con- 

 siders cheaper than the hot- water system. The vines are spurred 

 in, and one bunch only left on each lateral branch. The 

 bunches are not large, but they are numerous, and equally dis- 

 tributed over the whole vine; and the laterals being twice as 

 numerous as in the house of Messrs. Evans just mentioned, the 

 total weight of grapes produced from a square foot of glass is 

 probably not materially different. Mr. Norman begins to force 

 his earliest house on Feb. 1st, and his crop generally ripens in 



