Gardens and Gardenins. in Yo?kshire. 



201 



nearly equally good. One of the 

 cheapest, and simplest in con- 

 struction, is y%. 77.; and one, 

 by which a small twig may not 

 only be cut off, but held by the 

 instrument till it is brought 

 down, is shown in Jig. 78. ; 

 in which a shows the cord for 

 varying the direction of the 

 cutting or clipping part of the 

 machine, so as to adapt its ex- 

 tremities to the position of the 

 twig to be cut off; and b is the 

 cord which effects the operations of cutting and hold 



ing.] 



Art. II. Some Account of Gardens and the State of Gardening in the 

 North ayid West Ridings of Yorkshire. By J. B. W. 



(jContinuedfrovi Vol. XII. p. 562.) 



Newsy Hall, near Ripon ; Earl de Grey. — The house 

 (said to be by Sir Christopher Wren) is a commanding struc- 

 tui'e, originally, I believe, quadrangular ; but its " fair pro- 

 portions " have been barbarously altered by a modern addition 

 of two excrescences in the form of wings on the east front. 

 Some rooms on the north side also seem not to have formed part 

 of the original building. It is situated on the brow of a gentle 

 slope which leads down to the river Ure, and commands on its 

 south and west fronts pleasing views of the valley of the Ure, 

 and the wooded hills of Studley : on the east is the featureless 

 park ; and on the north, a short distance from the house, are 

 the extensive and extremely well-built stables. These are square, 

 enclosing a spacious yard, in the centre of which is an orna« 

 mental pump, seen to advantage through the arched entrance 

 from the pleasure-ground. Like the house, the stables are built 

 of brick, except the two sides which front the house and the 

 park ; and these are of freestone, with several untenanted niches 

 for busts in the former. 



The pleasure-ground is very much confined in breadth, al- 

 though there is ample space for its extension between the mansion 

 and the river : it, however, extends a considerable distance in 

 one direction along the banks of the river. The trees in this 

 pleasure-ground are of less common kinds than are usually seen 

 at old places. I noticed two or three fine specimens of Quercus 

 Cerris and Q. alba (?) ; likewise two very large trees of Platanus 

 occidentalis ; a variegated-leaved oak, 30 ft. or iO ft. high ; a 

 Salisbur/fl! ^diantifolia, 16 ft. or 18 ft. high, and as many inches 

 in circumference ; a large Magnol/a conspicua ; several beautiful 



