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STATISTICS OF GARDENING. 



Part IV. 



extensive, and finely diversified with variegated features, soft 

 and abrupt, champaign, and acclivous, covered with noble 

 plantations of oak, beech, and Spanish chestnut. 



Troy House, near Monmouth; Marquis of Worcester. A 

 house by Inigo .Tones, on the banks of the Trothy. This seat 

 was famed for its gardens in Charles I.'s time, and especially 

 for its delicious fruits. In the apophthegms of the Marquis of 

 Worcester, it is stated that " Sir Thomas Somerset, a very- 



orchards." The same gardens were famous in Henry VIII.' 

 time, when in possession of William Herbert, who, we are in- 

 formed by Evans (Letters on Wales, 184.), sent two men, by 

 the names of Richards and Williams, to France and Flanders, 

 for the express purpose of studying horticulture, and importing 

 esculent vegetables and choice fruit-trees. 



7568. HEREFORDSHIRE. A surface of 600,000 acres; much varied by hills, some of which approach 

 the character of mountains ; it abounds in natural and planted woods, and in ploughed and grass or- 

 chards ; and the soil is everywhere deep and rich. There are some fine seats, and the county will 

 hereafter be celebrated in gardening history as being the birth-place or residence of Uvedale Price and 

 R. P. and T. A. Knight. 



Harenwod, --near Llanfrother; Sir H. Hoskyns. The man- 

 sion lately improved; the park well wooded. 



X Holm Lacey near Hereford ; formerly the Duke of Nor- 

 folk. The mansion Elizabethean, and kept in perfect preserv- 

 ation as a national curiosity ; the grounds pleasant ; the old gar- 

 den on the model of that at Hampton Court, Middlesex, with a 

 spacious terrace : it abounds in yews, formerly dipt in shapes, 

 and not far distant is a pear-tree which covers "nearly a quarter 

 of an acre, and yields annually from twelve to sixteen hogsheads 

 of perry. 



Hope End, near Ledbury ; J. M. Barett, Esq. The house and 

 grounds recently improved from our designs ; the latter highly 

 romantic by nature, and well wooded. 



X Kentchurch, near Llanfrother ; J. Scudamore, Esq. 

 (Rscuedamours, Eeuyer il'Amours, squire or assistant in love 

 matters.) A pleasant situation, with a park of three or four 

 miles in circumference. 



Longtvorth, near Bromyard ; J. Walwyn, Esq. A good 

 mansion, recently erected, and the grounds well timbered. 



Meeml Park, - near Llanfrother; Sir R. Symmonds. A 

 plain brick mansion ; but the grounds richly wooded. 



Moccas Court, near Longtown ; Sir G. A. Cornwall. A 

 good house, delightfully situated on the southern bank of 

 the Wye, with a large park, finely clothed with oak, and re- 

 markable for a variety of that tree with weeping spray. The 

 only other specimen we know of is in the botanic garden at 

 Amsterdam. The growth of the oak in this part of the coun- 

 try is supposed to be more rapid than anywhere else. 



Rotheras, near Hereford ; C. Bodenham, Esq. A spacious 

 brick mansion, and grounds containing ome gooa timber. 



Shobden Court, near Mortimer's Cross; Lady Bateman. 

 An elegant seat ; flie park between three and four miles in 

 extent, contains rich and picturesque scenery. 



Stoke, near Bromyard ; Lord Foley. A spacious brick house 

 with a terrace in front : the park and grounds well wooded, 

 and considerably improved under the direction of H. Repton. 



Sufton Court, near Bromyard; Hereford, Esq. A 



handsome mansion of Bath stone; the grounds improved by 

 H. Repton. 



7569. SHROPSHIRE. A surface of 849,940 acres ; mostly flat, with some hills ; the soil generally 

 good. It contains a number of good nurseries ; and sends to London baking-plums and walnuts in large 

 quantities. 



Belmont, near Lower Eaton ; Matthews, Esq. A 



romantic situation on the Wye. 



Berrington, near Leominster; Rt. Hon T. Harley. A 

 square modern edifice of white stone, in a pleasant park. 



X Dorvnton Castle, near Ludlow; T. A. Knight, Esq. 

 Pres. of the Hort. Soc, built by his brother R. P. Knight, Esq. 

 the celebrated author of The Landscape, a poem ; of the 

 Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste, and other 

 elegant and classic works. The house is of stone, with towers, 

 and embattled walls, but internally finished in the Grecian 

 style. The park abounds in inequalities of surface and natural 

 woods, which stretch along the banks of the Tame ; a stream 

 which flows through the grounds, to the extent of about three 

 miles, over a rugged bed. There is also a considerable hill in 

 front of the house, clothed with verdure and natural woods to 

 its summit. On the whole it is one of the most picturesque 

 residences in England, and having within these few years be- 

 come the residence of T. A. Knight, Esq. promises to be 

 equally celebrated in respect to horticulture. 



Eytvood, near Lyon's Hall ; Earl of Oxford. The grounds 

 display a great diversity of scenery, and axe ornamented with 

 some fine plantations. 



Foxley, near Hereford ; Uvedale Price, Esq., the cele- 

 brated author of Essays on tlie Picturesque-. A plain brick 

 mansion, beautifully varied by creepers, and surrounded by a 

 magnificent amphitheatre of woods, chiefly oak, beech, and 

 elm, planted by the father of the present proprietor; but 

 partly of cedars introduced by the present occupier. There are 

 fine views judiciously opened in many places, and small pieces 

 of water introduced as lights to fix the eye, with other improve- 

 ments which display the elegant and correct practical taste of 

 the great reformer of landscape-gardening. 



Garmms, near Bridge Sollers; Sir J.G. Cotterell, Bart. 

 Extensive and flourishing plantations, and fine prospects. 



X Hamptun Court, near Hope ; Earl of Essex. A mag- 

 nificent Elizabethean mansion, on a lawn of nearly 100 acres, 

 surrounded by a park between seven and eight miles in circum- 

 ference. 



Aston Park, near Oswestry; W. Lloyd, Esq. A most 

 elegant mansion, and the natural beauties of the place much 

 improved by the correct taste of the owner. 



X Hamkstone Park, near Whitchurch; Lord Hill. A 

 good mansion, on a beautiful slope on the north side of a 

 romantic hill ; the grounds extensive, and combining beauty 

 and singularity. There are bold cliffs, grotesque rocks, most 

 romantic walks, a hermitage, and many other buildings and 

 seats ; a long artificial river formed along a slope, and 

 everywhere the finest trees. On the whole, it is, and has 



long been, a place to excite wonder, and also agreeable 

 emotions. 



The Leasowes, near Hales Owen ; . A pasture- 

 farm, chiefly celebrated as having been the residence and the 

 creation of Shenstone. Some of the root-houses and grottoes in 

 the paths which lead along the hedges, and in the strips of 

 copse and dingles, still remain. 



Oakley Park, near Ludlow ; Lady Clive. The mansion on 

 the banks of the Thame ; the grounds naturally romantic, and 

 laid out with much taste and judgment. 



7570. STAFFORDSHIRE. A surface of 780,800 acres; hilly and moory towards the north, but plain 

 and fertile in the other parts. It contains a number of villas and mansion-residences, and nurseries are 

 established at most of the principal towns. 



Botley, near Newcastle ; J. Wedgewood, Esq. A superb rude state {.fig. 747.), by the late Earl of Uxbridge, who, 

 villa-mansion, snrrounded by highly polished pleasure-grounds, 

 with an excellent kitchen-garden. 



Beaudesart (fine desart), near Stafford ; Marquis of Angle- 

 sea. A magnificent residence, improved from a comparatively 



fig- 74 ,. 

 with the aid of H. Repton, formed a large piece of water, 

 planted variously, and rendered the house more 

 Off- 748.) 



Belmont, near Ipstone; J. Sneid, Esq. The house, plea- 

 santly situated on a gently rising hill, fronting the south-east ; 

 nearly surrounded by deep woods, furnished with underwood 

 of ash, hazel, birch, willow, &c, cut every six years for hoops 

 and crate-ware for the potteries. The walks through these 

 woods are rude natural paths ; and on the bordering spaces, 

 not covered with copse, are planted many hardy plants, and 

 there left to grow without farther culture. On the whole, 

 this is a place combining the justed taste, great knowledge 

 of culture, agricultural as well as horticultural, and a strict 

 regard in all things to economy in the first expense and future 

 management. 



X Blithfield Park, near Abbots Bromley, Lord Bagot. 

 An Elizabethean building, placed atone sideof the park, which 



is rich in large oaks and picturesque views. Lord Bagot pays 

 considerable attention to horticulture, and cultivates success- 

 fully the loquat-apple, ofwhichhehas given some account in 

 the' Horticultural Society's Transactions. 



Broughton-hall, near Stafford; Sir T. Broughton. An 

 ancient mansion, surrounded by stately plantations of indi- 

 genous trees, especially sycamores. The park is divided by the 

 road ; but no art has been used to mark the appropriation of 

 the opposite part to that in which the bouse stands. 



X Envilte, _ near Enville ; Earl Stamford- The house, 

 a large brick structure of an impure Gothic character ; the 

 grounds formerly celebrated, but now chiefly remarkable 

 for a fine lawn, some old trees, and a cascade formed by 

 Shenstone. 



