50 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

CHAPTER IX.-

Gardens, Orchards, and Nurseries,

THERE are in several parts of the county considerable market gardens and nursery grounds, particularly about Newark; amongst which are particularly eminent those ot Mr. Ordoyno, who has been very industrious and expert, as well in raising exotics as native plants. In the Clay distrit are many orchards of apples and pears. Among the most considerable are those about the villages of Ha- lam and Edingley, about Southwell. The making of cy- der or perry is not pra¢tised; though the soil being very similar to that about Upton in Worcestershire, and Ross and Ledbury in Herefordshire’; viz. a red marly loam with blue veins seems to promise success, and the trees may be observed to grow remarkably well and strait. One reason, why this may not have been thought of, is the very ready sale of the fruit at Mansfield Market, for the supply of the Peake country, in Derbyshire, where the climate does not admit of orchards to any advantage.