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country, and between the inhabitant of the sea-shore and of the secluded 

 inland vallc}'. The poorest resident amid the lakes and mountains of Cum- 

 berland, or in the valleys of Switzerland, feels that the mountains, lakes, 

 and cataracts, which surround him, belong as much to him as to the greatest 

 lord of the place. He sees and feels every day that the grand movements 

 of nature can no more be influenced by the one than by the other ; and 

 the poorest in the place learns by degrees to feel himself as independent 

 and noble as the richest. 



Altogether the road from Shepperton along the Thames to Chertsey is 

 of great beauty, and truly English, from its extent of flat meadow and 

 gently rising grassy surface. Some substantial well kept old villas are 

 situated to the right, close along the road. A modern one, said to belong 

 to a wealthy coachmaker, displays an extraordinary assemblage of hot- 

 houses, and a conservatory which forms an entrance to the house close to 

 the road, the front of which is ornamented with caryatides. This is one of 

 those few places in the neighbourhood of London which are on no accoimt 

 ever shown to strangers ; the probability is, that it contains little worth 

 seeing, since it has attained no celebrity in the gardening world, and the 

 gardener is not known among his brethren. But all this on our part, 

 having been once refused admittance, may remind the reader of the fox 

 and the sour grapes. Almond trees backed by evergreens ; by ivy against 

 a house ; or even when accompanied by a mass of dark green in the same 

 -view or. eyeful, have a fine eflect. Every coloured view, to please the 

 eye, must have at least three colours, and these in different quantities, so 

 that the view may form a whole in regard to colour, as well as it nnist in 

 regard to form and to light and shade. If there be any coloured view that 

 does not contain three colours, which is pleasing ; or any view in which 

 Jight exists without two degrees of shade, or shade without two degrees of 

 light, that is satisfactory; the cause of the pictorial beauty will be found in 

 some striking expression or character of form. The reason of all this is, 

 ■that nothing can be beautifiil which does not form a whole ; that evei-y 

 whole must consist of pai'ts ; and that the smallest number of parts 

 which will compose a whole is three. Why will not two parts compose a 

 whole ? Because no two objects can be placed together in a determinate 

 tnanner, or in a manner for which there is an obvious cause. Add a thu-d 

 -part to any two parts ; and there is immediately assigned a reason for the 

 position of the three parts respectively; that is, it henceforth becomes 

 impossible to change the position of any one of the three parts without 

 ^affecting the other two. Something, in short, analogous to length and 

 -breadth and thickness is produced, without which there cannot be quantity, 

 or a whole. 



„ Addlestone Kiirseri/. — Walk from the inn at Chertsey to the Addle- 

 . stone nursery. The cottage gardens exceedingly well cultivated, and the 

 plantations, having been planted a few years ago, when the common was 

 enclosed, contain a reasonable portion of ornamental trees. A number of 

 rare and curious plants in flower in IVfr. Cree's grounds, and the houses 

 .and pits in excellent order. IVIr. Cree possesses nearly if not all the 

 plants enumerated in his Hbrtus Addlestonensis ; which is saying a great 

 -deal for his unwearied industry in collecting them, and his skill and care in 

 their preservation. Sanguinaria canadensis and Helonias buUata, in full 

 bloom and in quantity. Some Rlbes sanguineum, raised from seeds received 

 from the Horticultural Society, of shades of colour as different as in the 

 case of seedling mezereons. Fuchsw; virgiita, in an open border facing the 

 east, protected by litter, has died down to the surface, but is now springing 

 up again with shoots 2 in. long. 



A little beyond Addlestone, a very steep ascent to a bridge, which we 



were told was raised thus high in order that it might become an object 



. from a neighbouring gentleman's seat. Would it be possible to convince 



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