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pa, for its broad rich yellowish leaves, and its showy blossoms, which ap. 

 pear late in the season ; the deciduous cypress ; the bonduc, or Kentucky 

 coffee tree ; the cut-leaved alder ; the tulip tree ; the purple beech ; the 

 purple hazel ; the Oriental plane, of which there are several fine speci- 

 mens ; the variegated sycamore, and other variegated trees and shrubs, 

 which are always so beautiful in spring ; those thorns and crabs which are 

 beautiful or remarkable for their blossoms in the spring and for their fruit 

 in autumn ; the Nepal sorbus, so interesting for its large woolly leaves, 

 which die off of a fine straw colour ; the magnolias ; the rhododendrons ; 

 the heaths ; the brooms ; and the double-blossomed furze ; besides various 

 striking or popular plants, such as the variegated holhes, the scarlet arbu- 

 tus, etc. Among the detached trees and small groups, there is scarcely to 

 be met with a single bush or tree that a general observer will not find no- 

 ticeable for something in its foliage, general form, flowers, or fruit. The 

 Magn5lia grandifldra var. exoniensis flowers freely as a standard without 

 any protection, and was not even injured by the winter of 1837-8 ; nor was 

 A'rbutus procera, also unprotected. A number of the more rare trees and 

 shrubs, such as Araucaria brasiliensis, which had stood out eight years, A. 

 CunninghJimii, Pinus insignis, P. palustris, P. Gerardifina, P. canariensis* 

 etc. were killed during the winter of 1837-8 ; and a number of others, which 

 were severely injured, are now recovering. Mr. Pratt, the head gardener, 

 did not begin to prune the trees which were injured, till the rising of the 

 sap showed the extent of the injury that they had received. After waiting 

 till the middle of summer, it was found that the laurustinus, sweet bay, 

 Chinese privet, and various other shrubs, were alive to the height of from 3 

 ft. to 5 ft. ; and, after the dead wood was cut out, the plants soon became 

 covered with young shoots and foliage. 



The Walks are so laid out and planted as to be sheltered or bordered by 

 evergreens, for the sake of their lively appearance during winter. They 

 are also so contrived as to be shaded from the sun by deciduous trees during 

 summer ; while these trees, being naked during winter, admit the sun at 

 that season to dry the ground. The walks are laid out in different direc- 

 tions, in order that, from whatever point the wind may blow, at least one 

 walk will be sheltered from it. The greater number are in the direction of 

 north and south ; because walks in that direction are best exposed to the 

 sun in the winter season, which is the period of the year in which the pro- 

 prietor chiefly resides here. It is always desirable, in a small place, that all 



