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STATISTICS OF GARDENING. 



Part IV. 



Enmore Castlt, — near Enmore ; Earl Egmont. A quadran- 

 gular embattled structure, the stables and offices all under 

 ground ; the shrubbery neat and elegant, and the views over a 

 finely cultivated and enclosed country. 



7600. DEVONSHIRE. A surface 

 of 1,600,000 acres, abounding in moun- 

 tains, hills, and valleys; the former 

 barren and moory, the latter mild in cli- 

 mate, beautiful and fertile; orchards 

 abound in the southern part, and the 

 centre contains that barren, bleak 

 tract, called the Forest of Dartmoor, 

 now happily under a spirited course of 

 improvement. Ford at Exeter, and 

 Luccumbe of the same place, (who 

 raised the variety of the common oak 

 which bears his name,) are the prin- 

 cipal nurserymen. The father of 

 Galpine, author of the Compend of 

 British Plants, had a nursery at 

 Brenton. The Duchess of Bedford 

 has a picturesque cottage retreat on 

 the banks of the Tamar {fig. 752.), 

 one of the last places at which the 

 late H. Repton was consulted. 



Bitton, — near Bicton ; Lord Rolle. The mansion is spacious ; 

 the park pleasantly situated, and well wooded. 



Borington, — near Plymouth; Lord Borington. The house 

 was built at the end of the fourteenth century, though now 

 occupied as a farmhouse ; the park contains 500 acres richlv 

 wooded, to which continual additions are making on the side of 

 Dartmoor. 



X Castle Hill,— near South Molton; Lord Fortescue. The 

 mansion is situated on the acclivity of a finely wooded emi- 

 nence; the grounds are well diversified, and" contain a fine 

 sheet of water. 



Collqiriest House, — near Tiverton ; Thomas Winsloe, Esq. 

 The mansion has lately been enlarged, and the grounds im- 

 proved. 



Eseot House, — near Honiton; Sir John Kennaway. The 

 house has been improved by H. Wyatt; the plantations are 

 among the most luxuriant in Devonshire. 



Faringdon House, — near Ottory St. Mary ; J. P. Chelwick, 

 Esq. The grounds are pleasant, and the plantations par- 

 ticularly flourishing. 



Great Fulford, near Exeter ; B. Fulford, Esq. The mansion 

 is one of the most ancient in the county, and still retains much 

 of its original character : the park is much diversified internally 

 by undulations, and the judicious disposition of trees and the 

 distant river are interesting. 



Haldon House, — near Exeter; Sir L. Palk. The house is 

 a model of Buckingham House in St. James's Park. The 

 ornamental grounds are extensive, and the plantations cover 

 many acres. 



Landrige, — near Chudleigh; Rev. J. Templar. The man- 

 sion is large ; the grounds are picturesque and finely wooded, 

 and contain some of the largest trees in Devonshire. 



Luscombe House, — near Dawlish; C. Hoare, Esq. The 

 house is an elegant design of Nash, who has endeavored to 

 unite the picturesque, the beautiful, and the ornamental. The 

 grounds are beautifully varied by nature, and well planted. 



Manckeud, — near Kenton ; Lord Lisburne. The mansion is 

 of considerable antiquity : the park abounds in fine plantations 

 of firs and other forest trees: and the lawn in the garden-front 

 of the house is beautifully varied by groups of trees. 



7601. CORNWALL. A surface of 758,000 acres, 

 and the valleys rich. 



Carclen; — near Falmouth; Sir W. Lemon, Bart. The house I 

 is of granite, in the Ionic style ; the grounds are beautiful, and 

 much improved by plantation. 



Clorvance, — near Hale; Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart. The I 

 house is enveloped in wood, the park is large, and the pleasure- 

 grounds delightful. 



Cotchele or Cuttaule House, near Calstock ; Earl of Mount I 

 Edgecumbe. The house is an irregular quadrangle, situated 

 on a bold knoll, on the banks of the Tamar. The woods which 

 descend from the house abound in some of the most magnifi- 

 cent oaks and chestnuts in England. 



X MeuaJnlly, — near MenabiUy; Philip Rashleigh Esq. The 

 house is of stone, and commands an extensive prospect over the 

 British Channel : it contains one of the finest collections of 

 native minerals in the kingdom. The kitchen-garden is well 

 managed ; and the grounds are distinguished For their very 

 beautiful grottoes. 



Peitdaroes, — near Clowance; John Stackhouse, Esq. The 

 house is a large handsome granite edifice; and the grounds 

 contain a large lake. 



X PortElfiot,— near St. Germains; Lord Elliot. Thernansion 

 is irregular, and the grounds very' much so, and great lv im- 

 proved and embellished, in part from the designs of Repton. 



Goathursl, — near Enmore ; Sir C. Tynte. A noble building, 

 with a park, and home pasture-farm, of great extent, exhibit- 

 ing as fine scenery of the verdant and cultivated kind as any 

 in England. 



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X Mount Edgecumbe, — near Plymouth ; Earl Mount Edge- 

 cumbe. The house is a very ancient building : the grounds are 

 among the most remarkable in England for boldness, fine trees, 

 and marine views. The grounds have been considerably im- 

 proved by the present earl, and an account of them lately 

 published, entitled A Walk round Mount Edgecumbe, with 

 eight views, 1821. 



Nuiwell, — near Topsham ; Lord Heathfield. Thernansion 

 is large, and the park scenery highly interesting. 



Oxton House, — near Kenton ; Rev. J. Swete. A new house 

 has been built, and the grounds, which had been laid out at 

 (jreat expense in the old style, are modernised, and a fine lake 

 formed from a natural brook. 



X Pondcrsham Castle, — near Kenton ; Lord Courtenay. A 

 very ancient seat, with a venerable Elizabethean mansion, and 

 extensive grounds finely planted. The circumference of the 

 park is nearly ten miles: and the pleasure-grounds and kitchen- 

 gardens are replete with appropriate productions. 



The Retreat, — near Kenton; Sir Alexander Hamilton. An 

 elegant seat, kept in good style. 



S'altram, — near Plympton St. Mary ; Lady C. Parker. The 

 situation is eminently beautiful : the mansion is the largest in 

 the county : the new approach is particularly admired. 



Tawstock,— near Barnstaple; Sir B. Wray, Bart. An im- 

 posing mansion and woods, remarked by authors as taking in 

 at one view the best manor, best mansion, finest church, and 

 richest rectory in the county : the house is in the Gothic style, 

 and the grounds have recently been much improved. 



X Vgbrooke,— near Chudleigh; Lord Clifford. One of the 

 most enchanting spots in Devon: the grounds contain every 

 variety of objects which constitute beautiful scenery — wood, 

 water, rock, and unevenness of surface; and the exterior 

 scenery is highly interesting. 



Watford Lodge,— near Honiton; General Simcoe. The 

 house is large, and decorated with fine old woods and many 

 plantations, which clothe a declivity, and form a semicircle 

 around it. 



Yeo Vale, — near Bideford ; Rev. F. H. Morrison. An ancient 

 seat, recently much improved. , 



mountainous and hilly, but temperate in climate, 



Pontillu Castle,— near Cotchele; Mrs. Tilly (1820). The 

 house, which is modem but embattled, is finelv situated on the 

 banks of the Tamar. The declivities towards the river are 

 most luxuriously wooded with elms and limes, and the back- 

 ground scenery is distinguished by a tower in which the late 

 Mr. Tilly was inhumed sitting in his elbow-chair with bottles, 

 pipes, &c. before him. 



Tetredy Park, — near Redruth ; Lord de Dunstanville. The 

 house is of granite, from a design by Edwards ; the park 

 contains 700 acres, of which 150 are appropriated to a lawn 

 and sheep-walk ; on the rest extensive plantations have been 

 made. The situation is bleak, and it is said the pineaster is 

 planted as a nurse to other species, and that the larch will onlv 

 grow in sheltered situations. 



Trelartha Half, — near Launceston; Colonel Radd. A tor- 

 rent dashing over immense rocks, amid mountainous and 

 woody scenery, renders this a singularly grand and picturesque 

 place. 



Trelan-ney Hous", — \\ear West Cove; Trelawny, Esq. 



The mansion is in the Elizabethean style, and the views are 

 over the valley of the Love river, which contains some of the 

 finest scenes in England. 



Sect. II. Wales. 



7602. A hilly mountainous surface of 5,206,900 acres, with a climate colder than that 

 of England, and more moist in the proportion of 34, the average number of inches of 

 rain which falls in Wales, to 22, the number for England. The soil is generally of an 

 inferior description, and the great proportion of mountainous surface is fit only for plant- 

 ing, which is the principal branch of gardening followed in Wales : horticulture and 

 floriculture are chiefly confined to the low grounds near the sea and internal valleys. 

 There are no public gardens ; but few commercial ones ; and the number of gentlemen's 

 seats is very limited : cottage and farmers' gardens indifferent, though generally well 

 Stocked with commoner varieties of cabbage or borecoles and leeks. 



