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broken by plantations of trees and shrubs. Mr. Mcintosh 

 has greatly improved the grounds by new plantations of trees, 

 and we found every thing in the highest condition. 



The kitchen garden was formed at great expense ; the soil 

 was all filled in to the depth of three feet, and we forgot to 

 note down the number of loads of loam which it required to 

 do this, but the quantity was immense. It forms a square ; 

 on the south wall is a range of houses the whole length ; in 

 front of this, the other side of a walk, is a long row of pits ; 

 at a short distance runs another wall, parallel with the first ; 

 and, on the south side of this, another range of houses the 

 whole length. The first range is principally occupied for 

 pineries, vineries, peach houses, ifcc. &c., the Avhole of which 

 were filled with fruit in fine condition, though the trees 

 were yet young ; the next range is divided into compartments, 

 the centre being a palm house, and on either side the heath 

 house, house for New Holland plants, camellia house, orchi- 

 daceous house, greenhouse, &c. In the palm house, Musa 

 Cavendishi'i was producing a cluster of fruit which weighed 

 about fifty pomids. /hibiscus Cameronz, a beautiful species, 

 was in bloom ; we here also saw the fine Inga Harrisii. In 

 the heath house but few plants were in flower, but we noticed 

 a fine specimen of Lambertia. In the greenhouse were some 

 seedling fuchsias from fulgens, among which some new kinds 

 were expected. A new seedling veronica ; Corraja Grevillii; 

 Alstrcemer/rt acutifolia, and three pretty campanulas, fragilis, 

 hirsuta and Barrelerii. 



In the frames were quantities of seedling rhododendrons, 

 and spiraeas from Kamoon, among which something new was 

 expected ; New Zealand, New Holland, and other plants, also 

 raised from seeds, as the object was now to fill the houses, 

 until choicer plants could be purchased, or increased to fill 

 up the room. 



From the kitchen garden we entered the pleasure ground, 

 where we found a large circular conservatory, erected many 

 years ago, and which was soon to be taken down. It was 

 filled with large specimens of lemons, oranges, and other 

 common plants. Near this we saw a magnificent specimen 

 of the weeping ash, grafted forty feet high, the pendent 

 branches descending to the ground. We cannot too highly 



