CHAPTER V. 



GATLE Y C ARRS. 



We live by admiration, hope, and love, 

 And even as these are well and wisely fixed, 

 In dignity of being we ascend. 



WORDSWORTH. 



HERE is not a more delightful ride out of 

 town, at any season of the year, than through 

 Rusholme and Didsbury to Cheadle. The 

 country is on either hand fertile and 

 pleasantly wooded, and in many places 

 embellished with handsome grounds, while 

 gardens and shrubberies succeed one another 

 so fast that the road seems completely edged with them. 

 The variety of trees presented to view is greater than 

 upon any other road out of Manchester. In the five 

 miles between Ducie-street and Abney Hall, we have 

 counted upwards of forty different species, some of them 

 by no means frequent in these parts, while others are 

 uncommonly fine examples of their kind. The finest 

 sycamore, and, after the great horse-chestnut between 

 Singleton and Besses-o'th'-Barn, perhaps the finest tree 

 of any sort near Manchester, as regards either symmetry 



