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Hill, whence he may look out upon the country towards Gloucester, Monmouth, 
Abergavenny, Bromyard, and Salop, to say nothing of the hill and valley of Wool- 
hope nestling close beneath his standpoint. And so with the demesne of 
Garnstone; the predominant charm is in the deer-park, and the heights that 
bound it, the latter commanding exquisite views of North and East Herefordshire, 
as well as of Shropshire and the mountain barriers of Radnorshire, the former 
affording a study of single trees and clumps and groups of extreme beauty, such 
as is not often to be met with. Here a couple of Scotch firs, there a noble spruce 
or silver fir, arrest the eye by their perfectness of symmetry or their rich con- 
trast of form and colouring with their surroundings. Groups of Spanish Chest- 
nuts, clumps of elms, or avenue-like arrangements of the same, promising 
Wellingtonias, and the like, show how much good taste may achieve, without the 
aid of a professional landscape-gardener, where the proprietor finds himself pos- 
sessed of an over-abundance of fine timber, and approaches the task of thinning 
as a labour of love. Within the lawn and sunk fence at Garnstone, the myco- 
logists were are as much struck with the thriving conifers of comparatively recent 
introduction as with the special denizens of the turf in quest of which they had 
come. There were perfect samples, for their ages, of the Piceas, Nobilis, Cepha- 
lonica, and Pinsapo, as well as of the Californian P. bracteata, the leafy-bracted 
silver fir, a very promising young tree, which, perhaps on account of a well-chosen 
aspect, shows here no tendency to premature starting into growth, and thus is less 
affected by late spring frosts. The complaint of this species generally is the ten- 
derness of its younger growths. 
