We found the open garden excellently cropped with large supplies of those standard articles of winter consumption, broccoli, celery, and endive. In the houses was a large supply of retarded black and white grapes, pine-apples that promised a succession during the whole winter, and a fig-house in full crop. No attention seemed any where to be paid to neatness or orderly keeping; but every effort to the production of excellent crops. The pleasure-grounds at Ashridge Park are under a separate direction from the kitchen-garden: the gardener was, when we visited them, Mr. Poynter, formerly propagator in Messrs. Colvill's nursery. He had every thing in very high order and keeping, and especially the plants in two large conservatories.
