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Book: Gardening tours by J.C. Loudon 1831-1842
Chapter: Chertsey, Woking, Bagshat, Reading, Farnham, Milford, Dorking, and Epsom in the Summer of 1835

Donald and Westland Nursery

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Donald and Westland's Nursery, at Dorking, is, as usual, in high order, and stocked brimful of good things. We were much struck with a magnificent plant of Erythrina Crista galli, with the collection of dahlias, and with that fine plant Ceanothus azureus, which here, and in all the nurseries that we have visited since we left London, forms a beautiful hardy shrub, flowering the whole summer. Mr. Westland has built some additional houses since we were last at Dorking, and has heated them in Kewley's manner. In one of these he grows pines and grapes, and the other is devoted to heaths.