nursery amt seed line for three years, or rather move ; In 
fact, until I could transact business almost as well as my 
i father; when, all of a sudden, I took it in my head I 
would be a gardener. At that time Melrose Hall, West 
Hill, Wandsworth, was noted for good practical gardening ; 
Mr. Kershaw being the gardener, a man well known to all 
good gardeners of the day; and my father placed me under 
Mr. Kershaw, where I remained, as far as I can re¬ 
member, about three years; and now, fancying myself 
pretty knowing, as is customary with youths at that age, 
i when of a highly sanguine temperament, I thought I 
should like a year’s run in a London nursery, to learn 
something more about plants and their culture. 
“I accordingly got into Jenkins’s Nursery, opposite the 
Yorkshire Stingo, in the New lload, London, where I re¬ 
mained from, I think, February until the end of October, 
when I was hired to succeed my brother as gardener to 
Josh. Alcock, Esq., Roehampton; ray brother removing to 
the next seat, then Viscount Clifden’s, now, I believe, J^ady 
Dover’s. In less than a couple of years Mr. Alcock died, 
and Sir Robert Gifford, then Attorney-General, took the 
place for six months; and I still continued, representing both 
