42 Notes and Recollections of a Tour. 



each side with a row of cedar of Lebanon, each tree about 

 eight feet high, and well shaped. 



Immense quantities of azaleas, kalmias, ledums, androme- 

 das, ericas, &c., are grown here; and the vigor and healthi- 

 ness of the plants, at once denoted the suitableness of the 

 soil to these plants. They are all grown in the same man- 

 ner as at Knap Hill, that is, in small beds, four feet wide, 

 and the plants are removed every year until they acquire 

 such a mass of roots as to transplant without the least dan- 

 ger of loss. Several beds of the native heaths delighted us 

 with their vigor, and the brilliancy of their flowers, thus 

 showing how much cultivation will add to the most common 

 and neglected plants. £'rica vulgaris dlba plena, variegata, 

 &c., were all in full bloom. Beds of andromedas, among 

 which were A. speciosa and Catesbii, and of the pretty Le- 

 dum thymifolium, Ka!m?'a angustifolia rubra, glauca, and 

 immense quantities of latifolia. Two fine azaleas, called 

 Taylor's red and nosegay, of very free flowering, and dwarf 

 habit, are grown by the thousand, for the purpose of potting 

 and forcing. 



Among the miscellaneous shrubs, we noticed the Berberis 

 purpurea, with deep, purple foliage, very singular and beau- 

 ful. Pyrus japonica we here saw grown as a standard, trained 

 up to a stake, about five feet high, and with a compact head, 

 very ornamental. Godsall's weeping larch, a new variety, we 

 saw here also cultivated as a standard, and very singular in its 

 appearance. Two years since, we imported this variety, at 

 considerable expense, but did not succeed in saving the plant. 

 The double bramble is a very pretty shrub, and should find 

 a place in every garden. 



The collection of herbaceous plants, both here and at 

 Knap Hill, is extensive, and contains all the choice kinds 

 in cultivation. 



Bagshot Park, the Duchess of Gloucester. — Bagshot Park 

 is the residence of the Duchess of Gloucester, and is one of 

 the finest places near London. Its extent is not large, and 

 the situation is level, with no surrounding prospect, but the 

 grounds are well laid out, and judiciously arranged; and the 

 flower garden is highly interesting from the profusion of its 

 flower beds, and more particularly for its rustic arbors, moss 



