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veries thou has made, to tempt thy subscribers to continue their 

 subscriptions. 



The trees and shrubs raised from thy first seeds, are grown to 

 great maturity.' Last year Lord Petre planted out about ten 

 thousand Americans, which, being at the same time mixed with 

 about twenty thousand Europeans, and some Asians, make a very 

 beautiful appearance ; great art and skill being shown in con- 

 sulting every one's particular growth, and the well blending the 

 variety of greens. Dark green being a great foil to lighter ones, 

 and bluish green to yellow ones, and those trees that have their 

 bark and back of their leaves of white, or silver, make a beautiful 

 contrast with the others. 



The whole is planted in thickets and clumps, and with these mix- 

 tures are perfectly picturesque, and have a delightful effect. This 

 will just give thee a faint idea of the method Lord Petre plants 

 in, which has not been so happily executed by any : and, indeed, 

 they want the materials, whilst his lordship has them in plenty. 



His nursery being fully stocked with flowering shrubs, of all 

 sorts that can be procured, with these, he borders the outskirts 

 of all his plantations : and he continues, annually, raising from 

 seed, and layering, budding, grafting that twenty thousand trees 

 are hardly to be missed out of his nurseries. 



When I walk amongst them, one cannot well help thinking he 

 is in North American thickets, there are such quantities. But, 

 to be at his table, one would think South America was really 

 there, to see a servant come in every day, with ten or a dozen 

 Pine Apples as much as he can carry. I am lately come from 

 thence, quite cloyed with them. 



Thee will not think I talk figuratively, Avhen I tell thee that his 

 Pine Apple stove is sixty feet long, twenty feet wide, and height 

 proportionable ; and if I further tell thee, that his Guavas, Pa- 

 paws, Ginger and Limes, are in such plenty, that yearly he makes 

 abundance of wet sweetmeats, of his own growth, that serves his 

 table and makes presents to his friends. Finer I never saw or 

 tasted from Barbadoes, nor better cured ; but these trees grow in 

 beds of earth, in houses, some twenty, some thirty feet high. It 

 is really wonderful, to see how nature is helped and imitated by 

 art : but besides, his collection of the West and East India plants 

 is beyond thy imagination. 



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