The Street Gardens of Brighton, as we noticed in our volume for 1838, p. 498., are in general very neatly kept, more especially those on the London Road, on both sides of St. Peter's Church. These gardens are now (May 15th to June 3d) rich in Brompton stocks and wallflowers, both of which thrive at Brighton, and along the coast to Worthing and Tarring, with a degree of vigour which we have only seen equalled in the chalk pits at Greenhithe on the south bank of the Thames. The columbine in all its varieties is also in great abundance and vigour, the double red lychnis, and in some places the double yellow marigold; while masses of red and white valerian are just beginning to expand their blossoms. The prevailing colour in almost every garden is red, but this is finely contrasted by the rich yellows and orange of the marigolds, and relieved by the different shades of purple, red, and white of the columbines, by the purple and variegated stocks, and by stocks of a pure white; the whole garden being harmonised by the green of the foliage, or of a small plot of grass, and this again supported by the stone colour of the walls and the gravel of the walks.
