516 HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



After dining with Mr Grange, we went to Mr StnitKs 

 at Dahton. Here we saw a very large and good collection 

 of geraniums, all arranged in separate houses ; likewise a 

 large collection of heaths, camellias, and other plants, prin* 

 cipally for the supply of Covent Garden market. His 

 heaths, and other hardy plants, are kept in pits or frames, 

 banked up with earth, which sufficiently preserve them 

 from frost. He was engaged in directing this operation 

 when we visited the nurseries. 



We here closed our horticultural excursion ; and we leave 

 several excellent nurseries and gardens around London un- 

 noticed, merely because we could not accomplish a visit to 

 them. % Mr Neill being "now able to travel, we all reached 

 Edinburgh in the course of a few days. 



