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STATISTICS OF GARDENING, 



Part IV. 



erected near Venice; the park well planted, and embellished 

 with a canal, formed from the Cray river, which flows through 

 the grounds. 



Knorvle Park, near Seven Oaks; Duchess of Dorset. A 

 magnificent Elizabethean palace, the most modern part of 

 which is dated 1605 ; it covers five acres. The park is between 

 five and six miles in circumference, varied in surface, and 

 clothed with venerable oaks, beeches, ashes, and elms. The 

 pleasure-grounds, for the greater part, remain in their original 

 taste, and contain some fine old limes, cedars, and other trees. 

 Extensive conservatories, modern rosaries, and flower-gardens, 

 with other improvements, have been added by the present pro- 

 prietor, who is much attached to gardening. 



Mote,' near Maidstone; Earl Romney. Formerly a cas- 

 tellated mansion, surrounded with a moat ; now a splendid 

 structure on a knoll, commanding fine views, " but having too 



much the air of a citizen's villa." The park Vs extensive, 

 timbered with large trees ; with a broad sheet of water, and a 

 handsome bridge. 



Mount MorrU, near Monks Horton ; the late Lord Rokeby. 

 A large square brick house by Gibbs, and a well wooded park 

 of 1000 acres, greatly improved in its pasture by the owner, 

 who took great delight in farming. 



X Penshurtt, near Tunbridge; J. S. Sydney, Esq. An 

 extensive castellated pile of the 13th and 14th centuries ; the 



{>ark now reduced to 400 acres, but containing many fine old 

 ime, oak, chestnut, and beech trees- 

 Summer Hill, near Tunbridge; W. Woodgate, Esq. A 

 celebrated and beautiful seat, granted by Queen Elizabeth to 

 the Earl of Leicester. The mansion erected in James I.'s time ; 

 the grounds richly wooded and highly picturesque. 



7539. ESSEX. A surface of 1,240,000 acres, of which one part, bordering on the Thames, is marshy, 

 and chiefly under pasture ; another part southwards is occupied with the remains of Hainault and Epping 

 Forests ; and the remainder in the middle of the county, and towards Cambridge is a mixed tract of 

 arable lands, on which, besides corn, the coriander, caraway, and hazel, are grown. The rest abounds 

 in pasture and gentlemen's seats. There is a good market at Colchester for vegetables, and in the 

 corn -markets there, and other places, samples of the commoner garden-seeds are generally exposed 

 for sale. 



7540. Commercial, cottage, and farmers' gardens. 



Farmers' Market-Gardens. These are extensive in most 

 parts of the county. About Ilford, Barking, and Plaistow, 

 immense quantities of early potatoes are grown for the London 

 market. 



Market-Gardens. The principal of these are near the metro- 

 polis, and at Chelmsford and Colchester ; the latter town and 

 Eveley, and Purfleet, supply the first early peas from the 

 east side of the metropolis. Few of the market-gardens in this 

 county, in Kent, or indeed any where, excepting those, of 

 Middlesex and Surrey, have much glass. 



Seed-Gardens The London seedsmen receive more of 



their stock from this county than from any other. In the 

 low district on the Thames, great quantities of rape-seed 

 are grown ; brown and white mustard are grown in most 

 places ; small garden-seeds of almost all sorts round Cogges- 

 hall, Colchester, and in the Isle of Mersey; carrot seeds at 

 Wethersfield ; coriander, caraway, and mawe seed (Papaver 

 somniferum, var. with blue seeds), round Coggeshall ; from 

 the Marquis of Buckingham's woods at Gossheld Hall, near 

 Braintree, most sorts of fir-seeds which are sown in Eng- 

 land are procured, and hornbeam-seeds from Epping Fo- 

 rest. 



Physic-Gardens. There are none of these worth mention- 

 ing, unless one or two near Saffron Walden," in which the 

 saffron is still cultivated for the apothecaries ; but this article 

 being procured so much cheaper from abroad, its culture in 

 England is nearly given up. 



Florists' and Nursery Gardens. There are few of any conse- 

 quence. 



Cottage-Gardens, Farmers' Private Gardens, and Suburban 

 Villas, {.fig- 743.) abound and are in general very neatly kept : 

 formerly the tradesmen of Chelmsford and Colchester were 

 much attached to the culture of florists' flowers, and they still 

 continue to.be so in a considerable degree. 



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7541. Of Villas there are a considerable number, 

 from which we select only a few. 



Coopersale, near Thoydon Gemon ; Archer, Esq. A 



spacious edifice, surrounded by lawns and pleasure-grounds. 



Debden Hall, near Thaxted ; Mrs. Chiswell. A handsome 

 stone mansion, designed by Holland, surrounded by thriv- 

 ing pleasure-grounds. 



Eastbury Howe, near Barking; Sterry, Esq. A spa- 

 cious brick edifice, with octangular towers and chimneys ; the 

 grounds rather confined. jL.-. . 



Fitz- Walters, near Brentwood; T. Wright, Esq. An 

 octangular house, with chimneys in the centre ; the grounds of 

 limited extent. ^ j^ _ 



Greenstead Hall, near Greenstead ; C. Ord, Esq. A neat 

 house and good garden. ,.,.., t, a 



Halingbury Place, near Stansted ; J. Houbloun, Esq. A 

 desirable and pleasant residence, lately much improved. 



Hare-street Cottage, in Hare-street; the late H. Repton, 

 Esq. Remarkable as having been the residence of this justly 



LangUi.ttm Great Waltham; J. J. Tuffnell, Esq. A 

 handsome house, on a pleasant eminence, and the park and 

 grounds well laid out. 



Listen Hall, near Boxley ; Campbell, Esq. A handsome 



modem building, with piazzas, encompassed by a small park 



^MarVden Park, near Miserden ; Sandys, Esq. The 



house is ancient ; the park seven miles in circumference, and 

 rarely equalled for birch woods, picturesque, sequestered, ana 

 romantic scenes. . 



Ttvinstead Hall, near Twinstead ; J. Mamot, Esq. A spa- 

 cious handsome building, surrounded by pleasant gardens, over 

 "Thick is a bridge to the adjoining meadows. 



7542. Mansion and demesne residences. 



Audley End, near Saffron Walden ; Lord Baybrooke. A 

 magnificent Elizabethean structure, of which, according to 

 Lord Walpole, John Thorpe and Bernard Janson were the 

 architects. The model was procured from Italy, and cost 

 500/., and the expense of erection was 190,000/. The park is 

 finely wooded, and some improvements, it is believed, were 

 made from the designs of H. Kepton. 



X Claybery Hall, near Woodford ; J. Hatch, Esq. A neat 

 house, and greatly improved scenery ; the park contains some 

 fine timber. 



Colne Park, near Little Colne ; P. Hills, Esq. A handsome 

 mansion of white brick, surrounded with woods and plantations, 

 among which is an Ionic column, erected by J. Soane, Esq. 

 architect, in 1791. 



Copford Hall, near Colchester ; J. H. Harrison, Esq. A 

 handsome house and pleasant grounds, containing several pieces 

 of water. 



Copped Hall, near Epping; J. Conyers, Esq. One of the 

 greatest ornaments of? the' county. The house, of white 

 brick, has been much improved by VVyatt : the park is exten- 

 sive, irregular and well wooded, and the distant prospects 

 grand. 



Easton Lodge, near Dunmow; Lord Maynard. An Eli- 

 zabethean mansion in an elevated situation, surrounded by a 

 spacious park, with water and shrubberies. 



Foulkbourne Hall, near Witham , J. Bullock, Esq. A 

 stately old mansion ; and, in the grounds, one of the largest 

 cedar-trees in the kingdom. 



Felix Halt, near Kelvedon ; C. C Weston, Esq. A neat 

 modem building, and the grounds laid out with much judg- 

 ment. 



X Gosfield Hall, near Gosfield ; Marquis of Buckingham. 

 A mansion of the domesUc architecture prevalent in Henry 

 VII's reign. The grounds are of limited extent. 



Hare Hall, near Romford; J. A. W r allenger, Esq. An ele- 

 gant mansion of Portland stone, with wings joined by colon- 

 nades; the pleasure-grounds are well laid out by Wood, a 

 local landscape-gardener. 



Higham Hills, near Woodford ; J. Harman, Esq. The 

 house is on a high ridge, to the west of which is a fine park, 

 bordering on Epping Forest, and containing a fine piece of 

 water and many exotic trees. 



Hilt Hall, near Thevdon Mount; Sir W. Smith, A hand- 

 some quadrangular building on an eminence, with fine prospects 

 over a well wooded park. 



Ingatestone Hall, near Ingatestone ; Ix>rd Petre. An irre- 

 gular pile in a low situation, noted for its fishponds. 



Langf ord Hall, near Langford ; N. Westcome, Esq. A 

 modem white house, in a finely wooded park. 



MisteyHall, near Manningtree; F. H. Rigby, Esq. The 

 house has lately been much improved, and some plantations 

 and pleasure-grounds laid out with taste. 



Navestock Hall, near Navestock ; Earl Waldegrave. A 

 plain brick building, pleasantly situated amon;;st gardens and 

 pleasure-grounds. _ 



Shortgrove, near Audley; Smith, Esq. A handsome 



mansion on an eminence, with the river Granta at the foot of 

 a lawn in front, from which the house is supplied by water 

 from a machine designed by the celebrated mechanician, Dr. 

 Desaguliers. The plantations and pleasure-ground are thriving 

 and beautiful. 



Thorndon Hall, near Brentwood ; Lord Petre. The man- 

 sion, from a design by Paine, in the Corinthian style. The park 

 and grounds well stocked with wood, and many of the trees of 

 great rarity and value, having been planted by a former Lord 

 Petre, mentioned by Ellis, in a letter to Linmeus, as one of the 

 greatest encouragers of botany of his time, and in short the 

 Maecenas of the age. 



Valentines, near Wanstead ; C. Cameron, Esq. A venerable 

 mansion and grounds; the hot-house remarkable for a vine of 

 the black Hamburgh kind, planted in 1758, and nearly as large 

 and prolific as that at Hampton Court. 



Wanstead House, near Wanstead ; Wellesley Long Pole, 

 Esq. (1820.) A large and magnificent structure, the principal 

 front 260 feet. The park is very extensive, and abounds in old 

 avenues, water, &c, laid out by London and Wise. I he 

 present proprietor has made great improvements; erected ex- 

 tensive hot-houses in the kitchen-garden, and formed one of the 

 largest American gardens in the kingdom, from designs by 

 Lewis Kennedy, Esq. The whole lately sold in lots. 



Weald Hall, near Brook Street ; C. Towers, Esq. A 

 handsome building in a large park, with rich gardens and 

 plantations, and distinguished by an embattled prospect- 



Xa wmiey, near Badbrook; T. Walford, Esq. An elegant 

 residence with fine plantations, extensive pleasure-grounds, 

 rich in exotic trees, and containing some well constructed 

 ornamental buildings and a fine collection of Englis.i plants. 



