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which, in the course of a few years, will be a grand object, especially when look- 

 ing from the lower part of the grounds towards an appropriate building, called 

 Pope's Temple. In passing through the grounds the visitor is occasionally and 

 imperceptibly brought into the view of some charming little scene, suddenly 

 bursting upon him ; so skilfully have the sentiments of the poet been carried 

 into effect : — 



" More cautiously will taste i!s stores reveal ; 



Its greatest art is, aptly to conceal ; 



To lead, with secret guile, the prying sight 



To where component parts may best unite." 

 In going from the house, in one direction, you pass through an arch, forming a 

 part of an architectural screen projecting from the principal building, and 

 approach a piece of ornamental water; the walk on both sides is flanked with a 

 row of Irish Yews, the effect of which is excellent. The Belvidere rises in the 

 centre of the water, immediately before the spectator. The taste, however, 

 which dictated such an arrangement, we are quite certain could never subscribe 

 to the beds of herbaceous plants surrounding the water, and we were gla 1 to 

 find that their days were numbered. There is a piece of rock-work recently 

 executed at considerable cost, representing some remnant of antiquity near 

 Jerusalem ; doubtless, this is accomplished with great truth, and much faithful- 

 ness in all its details. A noble Cedar of some two hundred years' growth sheds 

 a sacred halo over these representations of antiquity ; contiguous to this also is 

 a lovely dell with fountains, and other appropriate objects of a similar kind, 

 overshadowed with Willows from the tomb of Napoleon, at St. Helena. Close 

 by are some fine specimens of Cercis siliquastrum, a princely Cherry-tree of 

 great size, and an extraordinary Juglans nigra of immense growth. 



On this lawn we also noticed Ilex latifolia, and a singular Juniper, introduced 

 by Lord Auckland, and presented to Mrs. Lawrence; it is of compact growth, 

 and of a singular purplish glaucous hue; various architectural objects are judi- 

 ciously placed about the grounds, and not the least of them is an ornamental 

 dairy, beautifully, yet chastely fitted up with numerous specimens of natural 

 history, as well as objects of art, decorative in character, yet appropriately ap- 

 plied. Close to the mansion is a conservatory, or rather greenhouse, chiefly 

 filled with splendid Camellias in capital health, just gone out of bloom ; on the 

 outside are placed two superb plants of Araucaria excelsa, giving quite a cha- 

 racter to that side of the building; leaving this conservatory, and proceeding 

 through the shrubbery on the right from the house, the visitor is brought at once 

 in front of the principal hothouses; in approaching them you pass through a 

 flower-garden, chiefly appropriated to summer ornamental flowering plants, with 

 various accompaniments of vases, statues, rock-work, &c, and in the centre a 

 basin of water with a Triton fountain. Those hothouses are filled with plants 

 of no ordinary kind, not ouly as regards their intrinsic value, but particularly 

 with reference to the care and skill bestowed in their cultivation. Taking these 

 two circumstances together few private establishments in this, or as far as we 

 know, any other country, can approach the collection at Ealing Park ; such an 

 assemblage of the most valuable objects in this branch of natural history could 

 only have been brought together at great cost, aided by an enthusiasm that 

 knows no limit ; these botanical riches are open to public inspection by appli- 

 cation at Ealing Park on certaiu days. There are four houses filled chiefly with 

 New Holland plants, two of them measure 65 feet by 17 each, all of them with 

 span roofs. 



A new forcing pit, 38 feet long, is heated with water underneath the bed of 

 earth, in which are growing Cucumbers and Melons, and a few rare plants. We 

 remarked two new species of Gesnera. Pleroma Benthamianum, Luculia Pin- 

 ceana, Luxemburgia ciliosa, the beautiful Cyrtoceras reflexum, Rondeletia sul- 

 phurea, Allamanda grandiflora, Echites melaleuca; Portlar.dia grandiflora, an 

 old, but first-rate,, plant ; Hindsia violacea, Pavetta borbonica, Erythrochiton 

 Braziliensis,and the extraordinary new Pitcher Plant called Nepenthes Rafflesii ; 

 there were also several large plants of Clerodendron fallax, C. Kaempferi, C. 

 squamatum, and C. macrophylluin, and a tine plant of the splendid Gardenia 

 SherbourniaB. 



