Woodlands House Blackheath

Woodlands, Blackheath; J. Angerstein, Esq. - We looked at this place with a melancholy interest, recollecting the extraordinary sensation which it made in the horticultural world when we first saw it in the year 1803. At that time David Stewart, Esq., Land Agent, and Landscape Gardener, of Great Russel Street, was then head gardener, and so great was his reputation, that in a biography of living characters which was published about that time, and included notices of all the principal men of the day, it is said, when speaking of the late J. J. Angerstein, that he was "fortunate in having for his gardener Mr. David Stewart." We have noticed Mr. Stewart's high talents as a landscape-gardener, in speaking of Bearwood, in our volume for 1833, p. 679.