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garden front, fine views are obtained of the water; and though 

 the scenery is not of that grand character, which is the 

 charm of that noble stream, still it is sufficiently interesting to 

 add greatly to the situation. 



Mr. Bradhurst is a gentleman of wealth and leisure, and 

 spends a great portion of his time in the cultivation of his gar- 

 den. Although he has an excellent gardener, many of the ca- 

 mellias have been inarched, and other plants propagated, by his 

 own hands. The green-house is about fifty feet long, with an ad- 

 joining hot-house, twenty-five feet. Both are built against a 

 rather steep bank, so that the back wall scarcely projects above 

 the ground. From the flower garden there is a descent of a 

 few steps to the range of houses, and still further down, in the 

 hollow in fiont, is the kitchen garden, which was formerly a 

 very low situation, but has been filled up so as to make a de- 

 sirable spot. 



The flower garden, containing about one eighth of an acre, 

 in the form of a square, is laid out in small beds of various 

 shapes, with box edgings. P^ach of the beds we found full of 

 annuals and perennials, and green-house plants turned out of 

 the pots into the ground. The cypress vine, trained in a py- 

 ramid form, was flowering beautifully. Some fine large ery- 

 thrinas were blooming very strong. Among other things we 

 noticed a good variety of the Bourbon roses, which were in full 

 bloom. Mr. Bradhurst makes it a practice to plant out all his 

 large orange and lemon trees in the border, and take them up 

 in the fall; by this means they make a good growth, (after be- 

 ing pruned,) and, if taken up carefully, do as well as if they 

 had not been moved. 



Bignon/a radicans and grandiflora, both stand the winter 

 perfectly well here, and when we saw them, were flowering 

 abundantly; the latter more so than the former, and making a 

 rich display with its large trumpet-shaped orange red blos- 

 soms. In some seasons Mr. Bradhurst has covered the vines 

 by winding a little straw around them to prevent the bad ef- 

 fects of freezing and thawing. 



The collection of camellias is tolerably large, embracing 

 some good plants of Floy// and other fine kinds, together with 

 se\eral seedlings raised by Mr. Bradhurst, which have not yet 

 flowered; the collection of cactuses, and other plants, is also 

 good. 



In the garden front of the house are some fine large willows. 



