576 Garden Calls : — Denhy House, 



their feef. dry and warm while standing on wet ground pruning trees in the 

 winter or spring season. They may be had through any London or Edin- 

 burgh nurseryman, who may easily procure them from any sea-port on the 

 Continent, and they are very cheap and durable. Indeed, we are of opi- 

 nion that every head-gardener ought to keep a stock of them for the use of 

 the men under his care, in the same way as he keeps spades, rakes, and other 

 tools. Nurserymen and gentlemen's gardeners find that it pays to warm, by 

 a flue or a steam-pipe, the back sheds in which their men work in the win- 

 ter time. Why should it not, also, pay to keep their workmen's feet dry 

 and warm when they are working in the open air at that season ? To begin 

 the thing, we hereby offer a copy of our Hortus Britdnnicus to the first 

 head-gardener in England who shall, with the consent of his employer, pro- 

 cure 20 pairs of sabots from a London nurseryman, for the use of his men; 

 the like stimulus to the first gardener in Scotland, the safiofi being procured 

 from an Edinburgh nurseryman ; and the like for Ireland, the sabots being 

 procured from a Dublin nurseryman. We are desirous that the sabots 

 should be procured from nurserymen, in order that these may get into the 

 way of keeping a stock of them ; and we shall be glad to know the nur- 

 serymen's names, that we may publish them for the benefit of gardeners 

 generally. 



Denby House, near Haslemere ; Mrs. Fielding. — The situation is lofty, 

 and commands a most extensive prospect. The house is a plain substantial 

 edifice, the interior most commodiously arranged, and finished in a superior 

 style of elegance by Mr. Perry, of Godalming. From the same gentle- 

 man's designs a very complete set of stable offices have been erected. 

 When the plantations, also, we believe, designed by Mr. Perry, are grown a 

 few years, and the approach from Haslemere is improved both in direction, 

 forming, and keeping, Denby House will be a place of interest to strangers, 

 from the unexpected and striking effect of the prospect from the house. 



Petworth House; the Earl of Egremont. August 11. — This is in 

 many respects a very noble place. The house stands close to, and indeed 

 may be said to form a part of, the town. In the angle of a narrow street is 

 situated the principal entrance, from whence the visitor, leaving a small 

 porter's lodge, passes through low cloisters to a noble saloon in the centre of 

 an extensive suite of rooms ; these rooms look on the park, and have no fault 

 in our eyes but that of being three or four feet too low in the floor for dignity 

 of effect, in consequence of which the view to the park is less commanding. 

 This view contains a large piece of water, a wooded hill to the right, a por- 

 tion of distance to the left, a church steeple beyond a wood in the centre, 

 and is, on the whole, as well managed and as striking as a view over a sur- 

 face which does not fall away from the house, as at Woburn Abbey for 

 example, can be. The park, the walls of which are said to be twelve miles 

 in circumference, is well stocked with deer, cattle, sheep, and pigs, and once 

 contained buffaloes, quaggas, zebras, wild horses, asses, and other quadru- 

 peds. On remarking to the person who showed us the rooms on the 

 quantity of pigs grazing in front of the windows, and on the number of 

 townsmen playing at skittles beside them, she observed, that the earl, her 

 master, took delight in seeing every living thing enjoying its existence ; an 

 expression indicative of a character which greatly pleases us; for what can 

 be more gratifying than to see a rich man giving undeniable proofs that he 

 wishes not only to share the bounties of Providence with his poorer neigh- 

 bours, but to reflect them back as it wei'e upon all nature ! In the house 

 are a number of excellent pictures, both of ancient and modern masters; 

 and what is always satisfactory to hear, because it leads to the mutual im- 

 provement of patrons and artists, most of the modern pictures were painted 

 during the stay of the artist in the house. Among the sculptures is a 

 marble bust of the celebrated Arthur Young, the earl having frequently 

 consulted him respecting his agricultural improvements. In one of the 



