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is a population of nearly 200. Mr Tennant has also erected a school-house for 

 the benefit of those connected with the district, in the management of which, 

 I understand, Mrs Tennant takes a great interest. From the position in which 

 the house stands, and the ground rising pretty sharply towards the Flower-gar- 

 den, advantage has been taken of it to form some beautiful terraces to the south 

 and west. Rhododendrons and other rare shrubs have been planted in groups 

 with good effect. If fault could be found in this department at all, it is in this ; 

 that too many early-flowering Ehododendrous have been intermixed with those 

 shrubs, the buds of which seldom escape the early frosts. South-west from the 

 house is the Flower-garden projDcr. This is surrounded by a very substantial 

 wall of blue whinstoue. Towards the south, and facing the mansion-house, the 

 wall is semicircular, with abutments at equal distances. This wall has recently 

 been planted, according to suggestions from INIrs Tennant, with the most approved 

 sorts of hardy climbers, due regard having been made to have the foliage as well 

 as flowers well contrasted. Another instance was brought under my notice in 

 connection with Mrs Tennant's fine taste in those matters. She has had a large 

 number of deciduous trees (of such sorts as change the foliage in autumn) 

 planted in the most prominent positions all through the plantations. As they 

 are not of any great size, the distinctive characters are hardly developed yet at 

 a distance, but in time they must form grand objects in the landscape. Ad- 

 joining the mansion-house there is a very large span-roofed Conservatory, run- 

 ning nearly south and north, 90 feet long by 20 broad, and as the entire length 

 of the inside of this house is seen from the windows of the mansion-house the 

 effect is very fine indeed, as the plants in it are all in the finest possible health. 

 The climbers in this house are remarkably well managed. Connected with the 

 conservatory, and entering from it, are three span-roofed houses running east 

 and west, which are to be converted into Plant-houses. Indeed, one has been 

 done so already. In it I found some magnificent plants, such as Cycas revoluta, 

 10 feet in diameter, two fine Tree Ferns (Dicksonia Antarctica), with trunks 8 

 to 10 feet high, and fine heads, Areca Bauerii (Palm), with fronds 8 feet long, 

 Latania Borbonica (Fan Palm), 9 feet in diameter, Croton angustifolium, 4^ 

 feet high and 34 feet in diameter, a very fine plant of Maranta Yeitchii, of large 

 size, — a telling plant in any collection, — Geonoma Schottiana (Palm), 6 feet high, 

 Authurium magnificum, fine, Croton variegatum, 6 feet high and 5 feet in dia- 

 meter, — beautiful plant, — Xepenthes hybrida maculata, 12 feet high, hanging 

 with pitchers, Maranta zebrina, good plant, Anthiirium Scherzerianum, a most 

 charming plant, just coming into flower, MedineUa magnifica, with 30 trusses 

 of flowers, Pandanus utilis (Screw Pine), 7 feet in diameter, in fine health, 

 well-grown plant, Sphserogyne latifolia, 5 feet high, lovely plant, Hyophorbe 

 Verschaffeltii (Palm), good plant. The other two houses in this range are a 

 Fig and Peach house, and which are to be done away with as soon as the present 

 crop is removed, and converted into plant-houses. The range close to the flower- 

 garden contains the following : — Orchid-house, 30 feet x 10, containing a very 

 select and well grown collection of Orchids, among which we noticed fine plants 

 of the following : — brides r)ayii, with four fine flower-spikes, Cattleya crispa, 

 two fine plants of Yanda tricolor, Vanda teres, Miltonia spectabilis, brides 

 \'irens, Cattleya Loddigesii, Cattleya Mossioe, Cattleya Dowiana, Oncidium 

 Weltoni, Dendrobium nobile, grand plant, Dendrobium Dalhousianum, and Lseha 

 Barkeriana. Connected with this range are a very neat Heath-house, 30 x 18 

 feet, with a nice well-grown collection of Heaths, in the best possible health, a 

 thing seldom seen nowadays, and another span-roofed house filled with Calceo- 

 larias, which, at the time of our visit (24th June), were in full flower. At this 



