MO HORTICULTURAL TOl li. 



Passiflora edulis, containing ripe seeds. This ires the best 

 plant of it we had seen ; it had, perhaps, lOCffruit upon it. 

 The pleasure grounds are very pretty, and well laid out, 

 with a line piece of water. There is here a rosary, and in 

 connection with it, a small rustic building, and above the door 

 this motto, " Here contemplation dwells." It is fitted up 

 within in the style of a peasant's cottage. Upon the table 

 there was a groupe of artificial fruit, and a book. I was 

 very well pleased with every thing at Frogmore but the 

 flower-garden, the kind of taste displayed in which was 

 not in accordance with the rest of the place. 



Oct. 13. — In the morning we went to The Vinery at 

 Hammersmith, breakfasted with Mr Lee, and again walk- 

 ed over the Nurseries. 



Called next upon Messrs Whitley, Brames and Milne, 

 nurserymen, Fulham. They have a fine collection of 

 dahlias, which were still in flower. Their store of green- 

 house plants is rich ; among these was the rare Enkianthus 

 quinqueflora from China. This is upon the whole an ex- 

 cellent nursery, and very well kept. 



We next visited the seat of the Bishop of London at 

 Fulham. Nothing particular appeared in the kitchen 

 garden, except that succory was planted out for a winter 

 sallad. In the ground around the house, some remarkably 

 large specimens of fine trees, originally planted by Bishop 

 Compton, attracted our notice, particularly an evergreen 

 oak 10 feet in circumference, and a stone-pine 11 feet in 

 circumference and 30 feet high. The gardener gave us 

 specimens of the l>ark of a cork tree 8 feet 8 inches in cir- 

 cumference. The lawn in which these fine trees stand, is 

 protected from cattle, by a wrought iron-rail, with cast-iron 

 posts. 



