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of the wall trees which were trained horizontally thriving but indifferently, 

 by unnailing the shoots, and relaying them in, at an angle of 40 or 45° in 

 some cases, and merely turning up their points in others, according to the 

 degree of suffering, has succeeded in throwing new vigour into them. JMany 

 of the trees have their main stems trained in the screw manner of Hitt, and 

 some vines in the serpentining manner of Forsyth, who was patronised by 

 the late Lord Selsey. This garden contains what we think ought to be in 

 every good kitchen-garden, a fruit room and fruit cellar, because it must in 

 most cases be gratifying to the mistress of a family to be able to see what 

 fruits are gathered, and how they are keeping, and sometimes desirable to 

 sit down with her friends or children and eat fruit fresh from the plants. 

 The gardener's house is in one corner of the garden, and it gives us plea- 

 sure to state that it is convenient and commodious, though we wish Mr. 

 Bowers had made the ground floor two steps higher. The floor of no 

 dwelling-house whatever, nor of any garden seat, temple, or ornamental 

 building, ought to be on a level with the surrounding surface, but always 

 above it, for dignity's sake, and for dryness; and a dwelling-house at least 

 three steps. The whole of this place was in most excellent order, even 

 though the family were not there, and were not expected for several weeks. 

 This is as it ought to be. On the whole, we were highly gratified; in proof 

 of which we have sent Mr. Bowers's foreman, Thompson, the first volume of 

 our Magazine of Nahcral History. Mr. Bowers himself is known to rank 

 among the very first of his profession, and therefore is above our praise. 



Goodwood ; Duke of Richmond. August 12. —This is a very extensive 

 place, but without any very "striking features, and without water. However, 

 from a belvedere, about half a mile from the house, a very extensive pro- 

 spect is obtained, which includes the sea and the Isle of Wight. The native 

 woods are very extensive, and chiefly of beech. Miller informs us that one 

 of the Dukes of Richmond planted a great many exotic trees, and especially 

 cedars of Lebanon, and the true service. We saw a good many cedars of a 

 considerable size in the pleasure-ground, and in that part of the park nearest 

 the house ; but neither from the kitchen-gardener, nor flower-gardener, nor 

 a man nearly ninety years of age, who had been all his life on the premises, 

 eould we learn any thing of the true-service trees. We found the <S'6rbus 

 torminalis Lin. and S. Arm Lin. both here and in the woods about Arundel, 

 but no other. In what is called the American grove are several tulip trees, 

 standard magnolias of different kinds, American oaks, acers, nettle trees, 

 sassafras trees, catalpas, &c. ; the most remarkable of which was a standard 

 Magnolia grandiflora, in the slip of the kitchen-garden, which we think 

 must have been one of the first layers taken from the original tree in the 

 Fulham nursery : it is about 25 ft. high, with a trunk at least a foot in 

 diameter at the surface of the ground. Round the garden are also some 

 very large and handsome hollies. 



The great fault of the pleasure-grounds here is, that there is no grand 

 leading walk proceeding from the house through the scenery. Whatever 

 may be the beauties of a residence, they are lost without this master-walk, 

 which operates as a leading principle to guide in the emplacement and cha- 

 racter of all the details. It is totally wanting at Goodwood, and therefore 

 the pleasure-ground is to a stranger a confused assemblage of scenes and 

 objects, good, but unenjoyable. A great fault in the management of the 

 scenes is, that there is an obvious want of hands to keep them in order ; 

 and another fault is, that masses of flowers are planted in many places 

 under the drip of trees, where they can never thrive, and in others, as in a 

 regular apple orchard, where they are not in character. Under all the cir- 

 cumstances of this pleasure-ground, the flowery part is by far too much 

 scattered ; and in consequence of this, and the want of hands, all that is not 

 immediately round the house is in very bad order. It gives us pleasure to 

 state, however, that in the front of the house the flower-beds looked well, 



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