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by, and, taking a private walk through part of the pleasure 

 ground, reached the garden by a nearer route than the main 

 entrance, where we found the gardener, Mr. Frost, who 

 accompanied in our hasty ramble throughout the grounds, 

 pointing out to us every thing interesting or worthy of notice. 



The flower garden is one of the prettiest of its kind, a copy 

 of which may be seen in Downing's Landscape Gardening, 

 p. 501. It forms a line with the front of the house, and was 

 planted with all the showiest annuals, verbenas, heliotropes, 

 scarlet geraniums, petunias, &c. In some of the circular 

 beds wc saw, for the first time, Mesembryanthemum tricolor, 

 a beautiful annual, with thick fleshy foliage, and very large 

 rosy flowers, with a yellow and white centre ; other beds of 

 Oenothera macrocirpa, very handsome, with its large yel- 

 low flowers ; Nierembergia filicaulis, and a new anagallis 

 (A. MarryattM.) The great beauty of this garden, and 

 which has commended it to notice, is the effect produced by 

 planting in masses, and the distribution of a great number 

 of architectural vases, statues, &c. The conservatories and 

 hot-houses open upon a broad walk bordering the flower 

 garden, and Mr. Frost was just commencing to take in the 

 plants. The collection contains some fine large plants, and 

 a variety of new azaleas, originated by Mr. Frost from seed, 

 and said to be very beautiful. Oxalis Bowiei was producing 

 a great number of its fine rosy blossoms. In the hothouse, 

 Gesnera zebrina, which was then new to us, was exceed- 

 ingly showy. In the grape house, we saw the true Black 

 Prince, St. Peters, and other varieties of grapes. 



Leaving the flower garden, we took a circuitous walk over 

 the lawn and through the pleasure ground, where we saw 

 that which was most interesting to us ; a great variety of 

 hardy trees and shrubs, and particularly various species of 

 pines, which have, from time to time, been added to the col- 

 lection since it was first commenced, about fifty years ago. 

 These contain nearly all the IMexican, Californian, Columbia 

 River, and Himalayan species, which have been introduced 

 and which Mr. Frost, under the direction of Lady Grenville, 

 has planted out with a view to acclimatize them, if practica- 

 ble ; and we saw in various parts of the grounds, which are 

 admirably adapted to this object, from their thickly wooded 



