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From Fulham we went to Squire Rookei^s near Wans- 

 worth. This is a neat place, with a very good kitchen gar- 

 den, and excellent hot-houses for forcing grapes and peach- 

 es, but they are rather too high in front lor pine-apple cul- 

 ture. There is a neat conservatory in the pleasure-ground 

 near the house. 



Oct 14. — We went this morning to New Cross, and in- 

 spected the nursery-grounds of Messrs Cormack and Son. 

 We there found a good collection of greenhouse and Ame- 

 rican plants in excellent order, and a stock of healthy and 

 clean fruit-trees, perfectly free of the white bug. 



After breakfast we visited Mr Angerstehi's Gardens. 

 The kitchen garden presented nothing remarkable. There 

 were in the pine-stoves some very fine cactuses of a spheri- 

 cal shape, having from 15 to 21 sides or angles. We walk- 

 ed through the shrubbery to the pleasure-ground, and 

 were introduced to Mr Macintosh, who has the superin- 

 tendence of this department : he very civilly shewed us the 

 grounds, and likewise the conservatory, which is placed at 

 a little distance from one of the fronts of the house. It is 

 a very large building, consisting of a centre 62 feet long 

 and 31 feet 2 inches wide, and a wing on each end, 28 feet 

 8 inches long, by 25 feet 8 inches wide, in all 119 feet 6 

 inches in length. The height of the centre-piece may be 

 about 28 feet : the wings are considerably lower. At one 

 end of the building there is an arched passage under 

 ground, leading to the furnaces, from 80 to 100 feet long, 

 entered by a stair, which is screened with shrubs. This 

 passage is lighted from the top by open grates. Consider- 

 ing the great space in this conservatory requiring to be 

 heated, the furnaces would, in my opinion, have been bet- 

 ter arranged, by having had one at each end, instead of two 



