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seventy or eighty oranges taken off one tree in the Rt. Hon. 
the Lord Kingston’s garden at Mitchelstown, as good as any I 
have seen brought hither from Spain or the West Indies: so 
you see what a prolific and fertile soil we live in, where the 
most exotic plants might, by a little care and industry, flourish. 
‘* Peach tree, in gardens; pear tree; pine tree; rose ; savin, in 
gardens, wild in one of the islands of Lough Lane, Kerry ; 
colutea, in gardens, I have seen it flourishing in Mr. Robert 
Fennell’s garden near Mitchelstown; abrotanum; tamarisk, in 
gardens; vine tree, in some gardens: walnut tree, in walks, 
parks, and fields.” 
A nobleman, whose father was one of the greatest planters. 
in Ireland, to whom we were recommended to apply for au- 
thentic information, sent us the following statement : — “ The 
gardens of greatest interest in Ireland, as having been the first 
to introduce exotic trees and shrubs, and as having contained 
the greatest variety, were those of Lord Moira, at Moira, in 
Down [noticed p. 48.]; and of Lord Clanbrassill, at Dundalk, in 
Louth ; and Tollymore Park, in Down. Sir Robert Bateson, 
M. P. for the county of Derry, is proprietor of Moira; and 
the Earl of Roden, of Dundalk and Tollymore. Moira is dis- 
mantled, though some of the trees and shrubs may possibly 
remain. Dundalk is also dismantled, but Tollymore is kept up. 
Lord Farnham introduced many foreign trees and shrubs to 
Newton Barry, and may have lately done so at Farnham. 
(February, 1835.)” 
Mr. Mackay, the very intelligent eurator offthe Trinity Col- 
lege Botanic Garden, Dublin, in a letter dated February, 1835, 
says :— “ The late Lord Oriel and the late Earl of Clanbrassill 
were the persons who introduced by far the greater number of 
trees into Ireland during the last century. I think they com- 
menced doing so about 1770, or perhaps a few years before that 
period; the former, Lord Oriel (then Mr. Foster), planted them 
in his demesne at Collon, in the county of Louth ; and the latter, 
in his fine demesne at Tollymore Park, in the county of Down.” 
Our friend Mr. Murphy, in the Jrish Farm. and Gard. Mag. 
(vol. ii. ~p.89.), states that Lord Viscount Ferrard, the son of 
‘Lord Oriel, possesses more foreign trees and shrubs than any 
other individual in Ireland. Mr. Mackay also states that John 
‘Templeton, Esq., about the same time as the two noblemen 
above mentioned, introduced many fine American trees and 
shrubs into his grounds at Malone, near Belfast, where the same 
family still reside. 
The greatest number of species planted in the 18th century, 
in any one demesne, is at Oriel Temple, and many of these 
appear to have grown with very great rapidity. A tulip tree, 
AO years planted, has attained the height of 43 ft.; an Acer 
