The Epsom Nursery we found in the very highest order; and we certainly think we never saw the plants before so finely grown. Nowhere, that we know of, are such plants as Clianthus puniceus, Deutzia scabra, Benthamia fragifera, Berberis Aquifolium, and various others, equally rare and beautiful, to be had by the hundred, except at Epsom. The collection of specimens of climbing roses is beyond all praise. Among the collection of cratï¾µguses, we found three sorts raised from seeds, which are new. Before concluding these hurried notes, we may observe that in most of the gardens which we visited, but not in all of them, the practice of watering was continued after the usual hours of working. This appears fair and reasonable to a certain extent; that is, occasionally, under unexpected circumstances; for example, in times of unusual drought, when there have been many interruptions during the day, &c.; but we cannot think it either just or humane to keep men watering, or doing any description of work regularly, after six o'clock till it is dark, as is done in some places, without any additional payment. Every man ought to have a period in every day to which he can look forward as his time of relaxation, and during which he shall be entire master of his time and his pursuits. This is essential to human happiness; and, for young men endeavouring to acquire the profession of a gardener, not only is all the time before six o'clock in the morning, and after six o'clock in the evening, necessary, to admit of the proper extent of reading and botanising; but, so extensive has gardening now become, and so various are the acquirements expected from first-rate gardeners, that two additional hours would require to be added to the time of relaxation of each day, to enable a gardener to learn all that may be required from him. It depends upon the enlightenment of the working classes, whether or not, in a few years, this will be the case; and whether, during summer, instead of journeymen gardeners having one hour for the mid-day meal, three will be allowed. Of what use are all the various improvements made in machinery, if they do not end in abridging the daily hours now devoted to manual labour ?
