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THE LADIES MAGAZINE OE GARDENING. 
THE EDITOR’S TOUR*. 
August 12 to September 1. — Edinburgh .—The morning after we 
arrived in Edinburgh, Mr. Loudon left me to go to Stranraer, and during 
his absence I saw very few gardens. The first I visited during this 
interval was Handyside’s Nursery at Musselburgh, where I was very 
much pleased with the mode of training dahlias by tying them when 
young to five stakes, and thus opening the plant, so as to admit the 
influence of the sun and air to every part. The consequence of this 
treatment is that the plants are not only more vigorous and produce a 
much finer show of flowers, but that they are much better shaped, having 
a bushy and compact appearance, instead of the long, untidy stalks, so 
frequently seen in this plant. In Mr. Handyside’s nursery the stakes 
were perhaps a little too conspicuous; but this might be easily avoided 
in ornamental plantations. The next day I visited Mr. Handyside’s 
Glen Nursery, one of the most romantic spots that can be conceived. The 
nursery is laid out on both sides of a glen, sloping down to one of those 
beautifully clear, romantic streams, so common in Scotland, and so rare 
everywhere else. In this nursery there was every possible diversity of 
soil and situation, with a fine warm bank, on which I found a great 
variety of annuals, which are grown for seed for the London market. 
Mr. Handyside’s house was a fairy-like pavilion, looking down on the 
stream; and near it w T as a large elder, taking quite the character of a tree, 
and a beautiful hawthorn with weeping boughs. Mr. Handyside told me 
that he intends planting a miniature arboretum on the sides of the glen. 
Olive Bank, the seat of J. B. Gracie, Esq., is also at Musselburgh, and 
it is interesting from the great care with which it is kept. There is an 
undergrowth of rhododendrons, which produces a very pretty effect, and 
some good greenhouses and vineries, in which I saw several seedling 
Camellias, and hybrids of Mimulus cardinalis and M. roseus. Mr. Gracie 
has also raised several seedling dahlias, one of which was a curious mixture 
of yellow and crimson. 
Dr. Neill’s garden at Canon Mills, Edinburgh, is a proof of how much 
may be done in a small place. There are wood and water, rockwork, 
hothouse, greenhouse, and in short every thing that could be desired in the 
most extensive grounds. (See Jig. 83.) In the stove is a large cinnamon- 
tree, which has flowered and ripened seed from which young plants 
have been raised, large specimens of the pitcher plant, Nepenthes dis¬ 
continued from p. 325, and concluded. 
