THE Garden of Mr. Sharp, the blacksmith, at Lancing, contains a good collection of fruit-trees, especially apples and pears. Mr. Sharp is enthusiastically attached to the culture of fruits; as a proof of which, we found he had got Myatt's new strawberries, and the Van Mons Leon le Clerc pear. He has seventy fig trees; and among these one bearing a small green fig of exquisite flavour, but the tree is not a good bearer. The white Marseilles he has had as large as an orange. The garden is on chalk, sloping to the south-east; and so early, that some strawberries were now (May 25th) ready to gather. On an old cottage, near Mr. Sharp's house, is a vine which was brought seventy years ago from Bordeaux; it has large berries and bunches, not good to eat, but making excellent wine, even when the berries are not ripe. It might be worth enquiring after by those who are planting vineyards. Mr. Sharp's garden is surrounded by high brick walls, covered with admirably trained trees, and every part of the interior was in the highest order and keeping. It is his own property; and as he is blessed with health and a taste for its cultivation, and has a wife and family with a comfortable house, we regard him as having within his reach all the elements of happiness, which we hope he will long live to enjoy. We glanced at several other places in this neighbourhood, and were recommended by Mr. Kidd to visit Offington, Lewis Daubuz, Esq., where there is a good collection of Orchideï¾µ; Northbrook, David Lyon, Esq., a finely wooded extensive place; and some others which we hope to see on some future occasion, for at present we had barely time to visit the Miller's Tomb on Heydown Hill.
