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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



BOX HEDGES JN KITCHEN GARDEN. 



than forty years, died in 1804, leaving Treworgey 

 House to her sister, Mrs. Inch, and afterwards to 

 the latter's daughter, Miss Anne Inch, who died 

 unmarried, and was succeeded in the ownership by 

 her nephew, Mr. William Marshall, a gentleman 



descended from an ancient 

 family of Devonshire, who 

 was High Sheriff of 

 Cornwall in 1843. This 

 gentleman married 

 Everilda, daughter of the 

 Rev. Robert Palk Car- 

 rington, and was the 

 father of the present 

 owner of Treworgey. 



Something may now 

 be said about the interests 

 of this remarkable district. 

 The parish takes its 

 name from St. Cleer, or 

 St. Clare, and a large part 

 of it consists of wild and 

 extensive moors and com- 

 mons, while great hills 

 behind rise to the height 

 of Brown Willy. Places, 

 indeed, are so elevated 

 hereabout that a view is 

 commanded of Devon- 

 shire from Hartland to 



Plymouth, and both Dartmoor and Exmoor are 

 in sight. About a mile north of the church or 

 St. Cleer granite hills make their appearance, and run 

 across the parish in a curved line, and, south of the 

 granite, masses of compact and quartzose felspar 



GRADATION OF YEWS. 



