44 Notes and Recollections of a Tour. 



dinary building, with nothing to commend it to notice, stand- 

 ing on a flat surface, but with some remarkable specimens of 

 trees. A small conservatory is attached to the house, and in 

 this we noticed a superb large white camellia, and a scarlet 

 geranium, called Preeminent, covered with a profusion of 

 flowers. The large trees, looking from the lawn front, are a 

 silver fir, upwards of one hundred feet high, and highly pic- 

 turesque in its form and outline. Three noble cedars of 

 Lebanon, more than seventy feet high, with their horizontal 

 branches reaching to the ground ; one of the finest specimens 

 of our beautiful hemlock which we saw in England, upwards 

 of twenty-five feet ; it is rare to see a well grown tree, the 

 climate being too humid; a gigantic beech, spreading one 

 hundred feet, and many other equally interesting trees. 

 Turning to the right, we passed the rosary, which is formed 

 of groups of beds on turf, with a rustic dome in the centre. 

 On the opposite side of the walk, near the rosary, are placed a 

 number of rustic vases and boxes, filled with fancy pelargo- 

 niums, and highly beautiful. 



The American garden is filled with rhododendrons, aza- 

 leas, andromedas, &c., planted in groups on turf, and orna- 

 mented with one or two rustic arbors or seats. Near it there 

 is a fine specimen of the Deodar cedar, twelve feet high, and 

 an Irish juniper, ten feet. The American garden is over- 

 looked by a terrace, which leads to a handsomely constructed 

 moss house. There is also a Dutch flower garden, with 

 gravel walks, and twenty-four beds on turf, which are plant- 

 ed with the choicest florists flowers. A reserve garden, of 

 some extent, keeps up the great display, which is the great 

 feature of the flower gardens at this place. The whole 

 grounds we found in the highest keeping, and we only re- 

 gretted that we had not the pleasure of forming an acquaint- 

 ance with the head gardener, Mr. Toward, who is a worthy 

 and most intelligent man. 



Dropmoj-e, Lady Gi'eiiville. — Dropmore has long been re- 

 markable for its pinetum, or fine collection of pines, and also 

 for its flower garden. The situation is picturesque and 

 woody, and from the lawn front a fine prospect is obtained 

 of Windsor Castle and Windsor Forest. Arriving from Bag- 

 shot, after a long morning ride, we put up at the Inn near 



