HORTICULTURAL TOUR 



Covoit-Garden Market 

 The place of our morning's resort, therefore, was the vast 

 green and fruit market of Covent Garden, where are to be 

 found concentred all tlie best vegetable productions of 

 the rich environs of London. Any remarks on the quali- 

 ties of these, however, it may be better to delay till we 

 again reach the capital on our way home. It may here, 

 only, be noticed, that in a fruit-shop, we observed a 

 large and fine specimen of the New Providence Pine-apple \ 

 a variety introduced into England of late years, and 

 which is still a rarity in Scotland. The fruit is short and 

 broad below ; the pips are few in number, but large and 

 full swelled : when ripe, the fruit is of a light yellow 

 colour. It acquires a large size; the specimen above 

 mentioned, weighed, when fresh, not less than 5 lb. ; and 

 we were assured that specimens sometimes occur of nearly 

 double that weight. Excellent plants of this variety may 

 be had at the Portman Nurseries, New Road, belonging 

 to Mr Jenkins. The leaves are long, and of a pale or 

 whitish green. 



Andrews' Forcing-garden. 



Aug. G. — Before we left Edinburgh, our attention had 

 been called by the Earl of Wemyss *, to the forcing-gar- 

 den of Mr Andrews near Vauxhall, where he raises pine- 

 apples and grapes to a great extent for the London mar- 

 kct. The first part of this day, therefore, was spent in visit- 

 ing this establishment. The number of hot-houses, vine- 

 rie and hot-bed frames here crowded together in a small 

 pace of ground, surprised us, and gave us a lively idea 

 of the riches and luxury of the metropolis. 



• i ent of the Caledonian Horticultural Society. 



