The State of Gardening north of Manchester does not, on the whole, fall off till we arrive at Lancaster; but, from that place to Dumfries, it certainly seems to us not to be so much encouraged as in the other parts of the country which we have passed through. Round Liverpool there are a great many gardens and country seats, but fewer scientific gardeners than we expected to find; a false notion of economy inducing many of the proprietors of villa residences to employ what, about London, are called gardener's labourers. We found very few of these villa residences in any thing like tolerable order. There are, of course, several exceptions; and it is but justice to state that these are in favour of reading gardeners, rendered comfortable by adequate wages and sufficiently good dwellings. Grapes are grown as well in the neighbourhood of Liverpool as they are any where else in England; perhaps better; probably from the greater difficulties which the growers have to contend with. The father of Liverpool grape-growers is Mr. Cunningham of the Liverpool Nursery, who has been a grape-grower in Lancashire for nearly half a century. We have never seen finer grapes exhibited at the London Horticultural Society's meetings, than we saw at Smedley Hall, and other places round Manchester, and at Mr. Roskell's, and other places round Liverpool.
