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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ September 20, 1864. 



Oaks about half a mile, when we turn off to the left, and 

 arrive presently at the pretty little church of Cadley, built 

 by the Marquis of Ailesbury a few years ago, as well as the 

 parsonage within a short distance of it—both structures 



beautifully situated, truly pleasant spots either to live or 

 to worship in — and so home to our comfortable inn in the 

 gloaming by the Salisbury road, which skirts along just 

 within the forest. — Upwards and Onwards. 



FLOWEK-GAEDEN PLAN— ADVICE TO A YOUNG GAEDEXEK. 



I am a young gardener, aged twenty, with four years' ex- 

 perience of general work in kitchen, fruit, and flower gardens, 

 and have also been accustomed to working in vineries and 

 Peach-houses ; but never having been engaged where there 

 was a good collection of stove and greenhouse plants, I 

 have little experience with them, except such as are soft- 

 wooded, but I have had much practice in the propagation of 

 bedding plants. 



I have devoted a considerable portion of my time to 

 drawing, a specimen of which I enclose. The design is my 

 own, and might suit a cottager who had a small plot to 

 devote to flowers. I would plant Irish Tews in the circular 

 beds, as marked in the centres. 



I am very anxious to go to England, but I have a diffi- 

 culty to encounter which I am afraid will be a hindrance to 

 my obtaining a good situation — I cannot leave my present 

 situation till the 22nd of November. Whether would you 

 advise me to continue as a gentleman's gardener, or apply 

 to such a professional as Mr. Newton, who advertises in 

 your Journal ? I have an inclination to pursue the latter 

 course, because I have had some experience in levelling 

 and laying out kitchen and flower gardens, and have a 

 taste for and take particular interest in it, I have also a 

 desire to have more of this than I am likely to have by con- 

 tinuing as I am. — A Young Gardenek, Aberdeenshire. 



[We have no hesitation in commending the plan you have 

 sent for a flower garden in a squarg, If entirely your own 



design it is most creditable to you at your age, and seems 

 tc indieate'jthat your natural talents lead in the direction, of 



