564- Garden Calls : — Milton Bryant Rectory, 



of duties, and by assigning to every division rather too many than too few to 

 perform its labours. One leading manager^ sees that the duties of every 

 division is properly performed ; the divisions are checks or stimuli to one 

 another, and the duke and the public are stimuli to the manager and the 

 whole. The grand secret of the plan of all this is the division of duties; 

 and the secret of the execution, the abundance of hands to perform them. 

 Let this principle be borne in mind by every-master. Nine tenths of the 

 slovenliness about gentlemen's seats arises from a want of sufficient hands ; 

 from attempting more than there is means adequate to perform. 



It is but justice to the late Mr. Repton to say, that much of the scenic 

 beauty of the views from Woburn Abbey may be traced to his suggestions 

 for the formation of pieces of water. Some future duke will pull down the 

 house and offices, reduce the site to a tabula rasa, rebuild them probably on 

 the same site, and in the same style of architecture, but so arranged as to 

 have a more dignified effect exteriorly, to be approached from behind rather 

 by a rising than a descending road, and lay out the pleasure-ground, stretch- 

 ing along the irregular line of eminences,- which lies to the right and left of 

 the present front. 



Milton Bryant Rectory; the Rev. W. Mansfield. July 29. — This place 

 maintains its character (Vol. III. p. 305.) for neatness, for chaste and refined 

 design in the forms and dispositions of the flower-beds on the lawn, and for 

 the choice selection of rare and beautiful plants there, and in what a French 

 gardener would call the parterre of embroidery in front of the hot-house. 

 The gardener, John Skerrat, formerly of Clarence Lodge, is a quiet young 

 man, irujch attached to his profession, and he takes in, and makes a good 

 use of, both the Gardener's Magazine and the Magazine of Natural History. 

 We have sent him the new edition, by our much esteemed correspondent 

 Miss Kent, of Galjnne^s Compend of British Botany, as a mark of our appro- 

 bation of his professional talents, and of gratitude for his patronage of both 

 our Magazines. 



Spring Grove, Middlesex. Aug. 1. — This place, interesting from having 

 so long been the residence of that valuable man Sir .Joseph Banks, and the 

 scene of the horticultural operations of our valued correspondent, Mr, Old- 

 aker, appears to be neglected and going to decay, at which we cannot avoid 

 recording our deep regret. 



Whitmore Lodge, near Sunning Hill; Robert Mangles, Esq. Aug. 2. — 

 We have before (Vol. III. p. 246.) noticed this place as very highly kept ; it 

 is still equally so, and has been greatly improved by additions to the house, 

 and by alterations in the grounds. Mr. Mangles has a very marked taste 

 for symmetry in architecture, and for order and contrivance in interior 

 arrangement ; fitting up, as the upholsterer terms it, and finishing and fur- 

 nishing; and he is happy in finding the counterpart of his own tastes in 

 Mrs. Mangles. The interior of the house, therefore, it may easily be con- 

 ceived, is a perfect museum of contrivances, excellent furniture, and rare, 

 precious, or curious articles. We have examined every corner of the house, 

 from the cellar to the bed-rooms, and shall shortly enumerate a few things 

 from recollection. 



Cellar. The bins divided by slate, to save room. The French portable 

 ice vessel (Vol. I. p. 444.), found to preserve the ice for a number of days 

 after it is taken from the ice-house. 



Kitchen. The walls lined with Dutch tiles, which, being glazed, do not 

 retain the dust, and they are always clean. The cook said they rendered 

 the place too hot. Instead of charcoal stoves for compound cookery, one 

 immense cast-iron plate is heated on the principle of a connnon hot-house 

 flue, by a common coal fire below. Steaming-closet and oven very perfect. 

 Cistern behind the fire, which, by communicating-pipes (p. 454.), heats a 

 bath. Ventilation openings near the floor, and near the ceiling, and through 

 wire grating to exclude flies. 



