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Book: Gardening tours by J.C. Loudon 1831-1842
Chapter: Hendon Rectory and Pinetum in 1840

Hendon Rectory Remarks

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Remarks. This residence is not given as one for general imitation; for there are but few persons whose taste for botany and gardening is so enthusiastic as that of Mr. Williams. It shows, however, what may be done by industry and taste, in the course of not more than four years, on a very small spot of ground, possessing few or no advantages, either natural or artificial. The amateur may see, in the lists which we have given, the names of many of the choicest trees and shrubs which can be procured in the London nurseries; and these names may serve as a guide to him in selecting plants that shall indicate a superior degree of botanical taste. Mr. Williams has not only selected the finest specimens and varieties, but the largest planats of these that could be procured in England. The sum that the plants enumerated in our lists must have cost, we cannot tell, on account of the large size of the plants; but small plants of all the same species might be obtained for perhaps 200l.