ELV ASTON CASTLE. 



for three hniulred years, wns brought from a distance, and, tlic second year after 

 reinKval, nmdc a luxuriant frrowth. Another striking fact, was planting the best 

 tliat could be got ; from three inches to three feet was the general height of all 

 those now unitjue specimens of rare Evergreens. Seedlings, cuttings, layers, and 

 grafts, all were alike acceptable ; if they were not of the proper form, the knife 

 was freely applied to either root or branch. "Where roots had been confined in 

 pots before planting, they were washed from the old soil, carefully extended, fresh 

 soil jdaced amongst them, freely watered a few times, and success was the result; 

 experience proved this to be fche true plan, for the roots, as grown in the pots. 



take the screw form, and, when planted 

 a few years, tend actually to grow the 

 tree out of the ground, and, in a few years 

 more, a storm prostates the specimen 

 by the tendency of the screw throwing 

 it upwards. The most critical judges 

 cannot now decide whether the tree was 

 originally a cutting layer or graft. 



The whole energies of means and art 

 have not been entirely directed, during the time, to the grand achievement of an 

 evergreen pleasure-ground and winter garden. There is a fruit and vegetable gar- 

 den, with graperies, peach-houses, forcing-houses, ])ine-pits, hot and cold walls, and 

 all their accompaniments, kept in corresponding order, flourishing and fruitful ; but 

 these are every-day affairs. The achievements in the grounds, and the planting, 

 their growth and keeping, in the short space of twenty years, have no precedent in 

 modern landscape gardening. The place viewed now (in 185T) will be found 

 densely covered ; the growth has been exuberant ; the trees and shrubs having, 

 for effect, been planted thick, they are constantly engaged in removing, to clothe 

 other grounds, their present owner being still desirous to keep up and protect the 

 character of the place, which is now generally appreciated by the privilege granted 

 and previously alluded to. One beautiful fact connected with the establishment is, 

 that the lord and the laborer are all advocates of the temperance cause, giving a 

 comfort to all the cottages, families, and people of the place 



