cpnſiderable quantities; and the demand for all theſe arti- cles is very great, not only in the neighbourhood of Lon- don, but all over Great Britain, and even Ireland, a great variety of foreign trees and flowering fhrubs being to be had here, that can be proeured no where elſe. The nur- ſeries of Gordon and Co. confiſt of 30 acres of ground and upwards. The general average of men, employed in the nurſeries and garden-grounds near London, is at the rate of one man per acre.

From Kenſington to Hounſlow, on either hand, for ſe- veral miles, may be reckoned the great garden, to the North of the Thames, for the ſupply of London; you meet with nothing in this quarter that is not in the hands of common gardeners, except the pleaſure-grounds of ſome of the nobility, or of private individuals, annexed to their reſpective viflas; the management of which it is not the buſineſs of a ſurvey of this kind to particularize.

About Chelſea, the fields are for the greateſt part in the hands of nurſery-men. The grounds in this neigh- bourhood, in the occupation of common gardeners, are, in general, not ſo well dreſſed, though the ſoil here is lighter than to the Northward; and, conſequently, fitter for gar- den crops. About Brompton, Kenſington, and to the Weſtward, the nurfery and garden-grounds are clean and well cultivated. Fruit-trees and flowering-ſhrubs are here raiſed in great quantities, find a ready market, and turn to Ereat account. They raiſe alſo foreſt-tree plants in great profuſion. It does not, however, appear ſo ſafe or eligible a plan; to truſt to the foreſt-timber plants raiſed in grounds ſo near London, eſpecially where they are to be planted out upon poor lands, or in more expoſed ſituations; as it is obvious, that plants raiſed as it were on hotbeds, and too haſtily brought forward, by the force of manure, will na- turally make but a ſlow and ſickly progreſs, when tranſ- planted to leſs rich and more unkindly ſoils. A medium

B 2 ſoĩil.

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