430 Nonsuch Parh^ near Epsom, 



For the present, here ends my feeble description of the 

 gardens in Leicestershire ; but, should this meet your appro- 

 bation, I shall willingly use every effort in my powei', to 

 communicate the particulars of those gardens in this county 

 which I have not yet described, and may consider deserving 

 of notice. I am, Sir, yours, &c. 



Loisoesby Hall, Leicestershire, Alexander Gordon. 



June 14. 1831. 



We shall be happy to receive a continuation of these re- 

 marks, because w^e consider them well calculated to stimulate 

 both gardeners and their employers. We know nothing so 

 improving to a master-gardener as visiting other gardens. We 

 are at this moment (Manchester, June 22.) on a tour in 

 search of improvements, and we find it not less advantageous 

 to a reading and writing gardener than it is to a practical one. 

 Future notes of what we have already seen, and hope to see, 

 will, we trust, prove this. — Cond. 



Art. III. A short Account of Nonsuch Park, near Epsom, the 

 Seat of the late Rev. Joseph Whatcly, as it existed about the Year 

 1786. Communicated by the Rev. W. T. Bree, A.M. 



Sir, 

 The following descriptive sketch of Nonsuch, which I have extracted 

 from a letter lately received from my friend, the Rev. Thomas Whately 

 of Cookham, I think may prove interesting to the readers of the Gar- 

 dener's Magazine on more accounts than one. In the first place, it will 

 serve to show how far taste, judgment, and ingenuity will go towards ren- 

 dering beautiful a situation in itself entirely destitute of beauty and natural 

 advantages, and of almost all the component elements of the picturesque; 

 for such, it appears, was Nonsuch, previously to its undergoing the alter- 

 ations introduced by the art of the landscape-gardener. Secondly, the spot 

 described may be considered as clas.uc ground, having been the frequent 

 retreat of the late Thomas Whately, Esq., author of Observations on 

 Modern Gardening, and brother of the then proprietor. And, what is 

 more, much of the beauty of the garden and pleasure-ground was, in all 

 probability, the result of his taste and genius ; for, I am informed, he was 

 at his brother's right hand when the improvements in the garden were made; 

 and no doubt confirmed with his approval, if he did not originally suggest, 

 many of the alterations. The place, therefore, as described below, may be 

 considered, at least in great measure, as the work of Thomas Whately, and 

 may serve as a practical illustration of those principles of the art, which he has 

 so well laid down in his incomparable treatise on Modern Gardeniiig. Let 

 it be remembered that the following brief sketch applies to Nonsuch as it 

 was, not as it now is. The property has some years since passed out of the 

 Whately family ; and the whole place, 1 am toki, has now undergone an 

 entire change in the arrangement of its garden, plantations, buildings, &c., 

 the old house having been ouUed down and a large modern mansion. 



