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certain 1 v,from the variety of his trials, mint 

 be very understanding in the nature of 

 feparated grafTes, and very attentive to their 

 culture. This gentleman was not himfelf 

 at home, but I was very civilly received by 

 his brother, who fhewed me all the ex- 

 periments, and obligingly refolved my en- 

 quiries. 



His prickly-edged Medico, appears to me a 

 great curiofity : It is an annual, as Mr. Bram- 

 fione apprehends, but the luxuriance of its 

 growth exceeds every thing I ever faw : 

 two or three plants which ftand fingle, 

 fpread an extent of fhoots fix feet diameter, 



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room are four large pictures of the battles of 

 Alexander. The repalt is not a diiagreeable 

 one, were the heroes grouped with more tafte, 

 but they fit at as fquare a table as any Dutch 

 painter could ever have defigned. The oppo- 

 fite piece to it is the belt ; the groupe of three 

 horfemen with a large rock in the bad: ground 

 is fine ; the fire and fpirit of the hories well 

 done. 

 In the yellow drawing room are two portraits 

 by Reynolds, one the late Marquis of Tavifiock; 

 the other the prefent Duchefs of Marlborough-, 

 the latter a very fine one. The chimney- 

 piece is elegant and the pier-glafs frame finely 

 carved, of plated filvcr : Here is alio a por- 

 trait of the prefent Duke of Bedford. 

 The coffee room 30 by 20 ; in this room 

 - remember to obferve a fmali portrait of 

 Vol. I. D Francis 



