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the ground, in general bold, sometimes hangs abruptly over the walks, and 

 at others declines in gentle slopes to the level parts," We refer to Mr. 

 Neal's work for a historical and detailed description both of the house and 

 grounds, and shall content ourselves with copying from it slight outlines of 

 the elegant engravings given of the entrance front {fig. 119); south front 

 {fig- 120); north-west front (^g. 121.)of thehouse; and one of the entrance 



lodges {fig. 122.): — and merely put down some gardening recollections, and 

 but a few, as the almost incessant rains 

 that fell while we remained at Dor- 

 king, prevented us from seeing more 

 than the kitchen-garden, and the im- 

 mediate vicinity of the house. 



The kitchen-garden has been lately 

 much enlarged, and surrounded by a 

 wall. On the fruit-tree borders of this 

 wall Mr. Woods intends growing no 

 crops, nor even digging it after the 

 second or third year. In the brick- 

 built pits excellent crops of cucumbers have been grown in beds of earth, 

 supported by fir poles covered with turves, and heated by recent stable 

 dung thrown in at one end. The plants grow so vigorously after the first 

 great heat of the dung is exhausted, as to send the roots through the 

 turves and moist air into the fermenting dung, and the dung and earth 

 being now removed, we saw the remains of the roots adhering to the side 

 walls. There is an arched trellis over the main walk, which connects the 

 kitchen-garden with the fruit-garden, on which gooseberries are trained, and 

 bear most abundantly. This trellis is here admirably placed, because it 

 disguises the descent of the walk to the tunnel through which it passes under 

 a public road to the fruit-garden, and is therefore desirable as an object of 

 design and taste, and it is rendered most economical by the heavy crops 

 it produces. Mr. W. grows more sorts of peas than we ever before saw 

 in any one garden. He has three sorts that are eaten in the pod like 

 kidneybeans, one of which, the dwarf sugar, he recommends as particularly 

 prolific. In gathering for use, he varies the sorts, so that one kind is never 

 sent twice in succession. The dry sandy soil is peculiarly favourable for 

 this description of culture, in wet seasons, and not less so by the aid of 

 water when the season is dry. Every year Mr. W. gathers peas from the 

 end of May to the end of November, and we hope he will send us a paper 



