ioo Demesnes^ &c. 



Powerscourt, visited or heard of by every tourist, 

 is specially mentioned by Mr. Young. And it is 

 worthy of particular notice, because the Dargle and 

 demesne and the Waterfall grounds appear much 

 more favourably circumstanced for admirers and 

 students of landscape gardening, as they long have 

 been for the artist, than any other place so near 

 Dublin. Here mountain and hill, valley and plain, 

 river, streamlet, and pond, particularly salubrious 

 climate, and all kinds of soils, highly cultivated 

 tastes, and ample opportunities for procuring what- 

 ever is most beautiful and suitable, combine in a 

 manner rarely met. Some of the most recent and 

 best works on Forestry speak of the collection of 

 Pines at Powerscourt as amongst the finest in the 

 kingdom. 



Some years ago, my namesake of Eathdaire, in 

 the Queen's County, was careful in selecting a choice 

 collection of Pines and of most kinds of other trees 

 and shrubs suitable for that handsome place : and it 

 is deserving of particular notice, as presenting to 

 visitors from the different neighbouring towns Por- 

 tarlington and others a fair field for seeing what 

 will grow in that part of our country. 



Several of the demesnes I have been privileged to 

 visit, from Shane's Castle to some in the West and 

 South, supply abundant material for an elaborate 

 treatise on landscape gardening, and ample opportu- 

 nity for indulgence of refined taste. It is very inte- 

 resting to see how luxuriantly many of what are 



