Without viewing the park, we took our leave by an approach not far from the kitchen-garden; to which, as a lodge, there is a very picturesque cottage, in the old style of oak framing, filled up with brickwork, and plastered. This lodge, like the other, is also from the design of the proprietor, and does credit to his taste. The head-gardener here had lately been visiting Stowe, and other remarkable gardens within a day or two's ride of . He mentioned that, in the months of September and October, a gardener could better spare time for this purpose than at any other season of the year. This practice of gardeners visiting one another's gardens ought to be particularly encouraged by their employers; for scarcely any other means will be found so effectual in improving them, and enabling them to add to the stock of plants, and increase the variety and excellence of what is under their care. We were sorry not to have leisure to call at Beechworth, where we should have seen a fine example of agriculture, and the improved breeding of live stock: the proprietor, Sir John Sebright, possessing much science and great experience in these subjects.
