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good order ; at present we are sorry to observe a falling off in 

 those matters under our consideration. The gardens and 

 plantations were principally made during the incumbency of 

 Bishop Maxwell. In the back lawn are several beautiful 

 American thorns, scarlet oaks, &c, the handsomest trees of 

 Fraxinus ornus, and the most magnificent horse-chesnut we 

 have any where seen ; and in front of the green-house there 

 are two charming cedars of Lebanon. The gardens are in the 

 antique style, (peculiar to some of the older places about Lon- 

 don,) being blended with the shrubbery, by which you are led 

 imperceptibly from one compartment to another. In this 

 neighbourhood we were agreeably surprised on meeting 

 with the most extensive nursery in Ireland, called Ballybeg, 

 the property of Mr. Patrick O'Rielly: — above fifty English 

 acres an under-nursery. His mode of lining out the trees is 

 peculiar to himself, so far as we have seen ; and it will be at 

 least admitted, as advantageous to the planter. In order to 

 obviate the complaints generally made against nurserymen, of 

 having their trees too much drawn up by close planting, he 

 plants alternate rows of different ages : for example, at the 

 second transplanting of the larger sorts, they are left five feet 

 asunder, and in the intervening spaces are planted a row of one 

 or two year olds from the seed-bed, and so on ; by which 

 mode the air has free access on all sides. Mr. O'Rielly, junior, 

 directs his attention to the ornamental department, in which 

 he eminently excels. He visits England regularly, and spares 

 no expense in procuring every new and rare hardy plant as 

 they are introduced. In fine, for forest, fruit trees, and shrubs, 

 this nursery may be ranked with Messrs. Dicksons' of Edin- 

 burgh, Austin's of Glasgow, Bannerman's of Liverpool, or 

 Miller's of Bristol 



[To be continued.) 



Art. VI. Description of a new Trap for catching Winged 

 Insects in Gardens. By Mr. John Wilson, Journeyman 

 in Welbeck-Gardens, Nottinghamshire. 



Sir, 

 As you were pleased to express so much satisfaction with 

 the w }sp and fly traps in use at Welbeck, I have (with the 

 concurrence of Mr. Thompson) sent you a sketch and explan- 

 atory reference of them. Mr. Thompson wishes me to say 

 that they did not originate at Welbeck, nor does he know the 



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