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STATISTICS OF GARDENING. 



Part IV. 



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The Miirket-Garderu of Glasgorv — are estimated to occupy 

 260 or 270 acres, which are cro-pped chiefly with the com- 

 moner articles ; sea-kale, artichokes, beet, endive, Krer.oh 

 beans, and shallots, are not in demand ; and other rarer sorts 

 are unknown. Thirty acres, however, are occupied in rai^i!:^ 

 strav. berries for the Glasgow -market, and an acre in a ijood 

 season is estimated to produce from 800 to 900 Scotch pints, 

 €ff .about four times that number of pottles. 



Clydesdale Orchards. — These are CO in number, and occupy 

 ft-om 210 to 220 acres between Cil.isgow and I.r.nr.rk. Tlie 



largest contains about 30 acres. The fmits produced are 

 apples, pears, plums, gooseberries, and cunants. IMany of 

 tiiem occupy steep banks, and are never cultivated. The 

 others are chisfly~ploughed, unless where the small fruits are 

 grown in the intervals of the trees. The produce finds a ready 

 sale in Glasgow and the sea-ports; ana the demand seems 

 incveasirg. 



X tluvnillon Palace, — aX Hamilton ; Duke of Hamilton. A 

 gloomy old fabric, situated on one side of an extensive park 

 ti atered by the Clyde ; m ell wooded with old oaks, and dis- 

 tinguished by an extensive frontage, or" false palace, on an 

 eminence, called Chatelherault (Herald's Castle), said to be 



