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€ ir rea A: of the park, Anas up to the p to the mansion, These | goniums, a very fine bate batch of Primulas, standard Helio- | Pears and Apples s gen erally ‘do well; but owing to the 
approaches are a car rial mistake, and almost men — with perfume, and some rich spikes of excessive rainfall in that part. of Cheshire, the — 
invariably meet the eye: in all large domaine, having a | Gladiol hie ch stood out very promine ent at the t time of better k 
tenden he e f park an paar B tl Paradise se stock The past season had been an unusually 
ae HE scenery, however oa poa and was a shahi of p. ini) scarlet, dazzling 1 the eye: very dry o th wer $0 large as 
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has force Re to do with f this, but even in Yt | corresponding plant hause was full of rim budded ae as Jong as possible on the trees the succession is 
tations, where one tree shelters anopin he vier is Chama 2 a health; a few good Heaths and pa r ke pe ups for those pulled and — the si 
not remarkable for size. E: influg d pacrises, and some nice plants of Azaleas. est point of 
the sea breezes from t the sea —— — re new range of orchard houses bad been completed cal r pe would decay before the ungathered 
4 all exposed being compan nly seanty of ‘branches during the pas ast season. It is divided into ques ma s were » - table. bce old span-roofed houses 
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n the windward side, an one for which is 2 feet wider, azed w mall pane of thia 
stand in the centre 
The outskirts of the MN AR a large pasturage Vines ; and the other for MUN "They are 12 foot | conden asa as of the feas when the duty or 
surface, fully ia ime that. the visitor is ente ering dy built against a wall, and ti matter of serious consideration in ho 
nds laid g tbe Oh g- These e have quite recently been gutte 
most pleasing nepeet 3 ‘while the Framing herds t and in tiers, 
feed on its surfa envincin agric in en hh isa ri. ae | fare ae ane Mo yield si [s mar phitbentra like, and only suitable for ‘ibe cultivation 
has been carried to ta fruit from the wall is likely to be very your ver lat 
From the level ‘nator of a country the eye|would be if trees were planted ona trellis at. given | Passing ont of this walled enclosure, alongside of & 
commands a large portion of the landscape, Ha until | distanco from the glass ; aud then ou economical | venerable Jargonelle Pear which has — and covered *^ 
lately ha as not been wooded to such an extent, h th ) ains enbere pap space of wall on one side, then trained 3 
as is characteristic of man ay É gtl i di over £o cover a large space on Een Puer 
old pla Quite reb. numerous irregular clumps | tl s 1 wall, without eeiam the uolight in in | means producing fruit in’ condition over an ERE 
have been introduced over a surface, and planted à ial Opt oe period, we find ourselves at one end of another hand. 
itable fi | con ontrary, the Vin y ehard-l " new range of fruit-houses, the two cen 
the locality, and er thick à to nurse and shelt ely which are wider and loftier than those at either end, 
led t cote h Fir seems do | trained up fe rafter, the caching siotapat Td Peaches and Vines "uaa this range, and so far as they 
i object here js at once apparent : to take a crop of Vin es, | have gono, indicate good management. ‘The Peaches 
a most itin are aware, tw ine 066; ‘when fast n, | ha a urvi ili inear " tells a front in order to give all 
grown, p timber—so different to the | and to fill up the. open sp sl i n the back wall, A slight 
Socialis that are grown in the Higblapae and in with Vines i in pots, aes — cpthedeli or grown screen of | shrubs. — “this wall ve the flower 
in the gr W d bush s may be deemed des > who le of garden, which „not extensive, ut Jaid out in 
ion so consolidated as to be a most valoable timber, the permanent Vines i " hous i 
gh t useat. The back wal ntende t howe snch|up of e admirable 
Thi tree i is never more at home than wh roots | sorts of E Mesi as will best ak Meantime.| icti. pm y in rari big ad "—! 
and wher o soil ‘forms only | several f Psidium including pomi iferam and | between pure flower garden and park sce 
a thin stratum, living like a parasite and P The fruit room has been erected hd gan with 
d Larch i b better adapted de nursing general There is an reretent e stove house, with a a bed for the | good taste, while at Y same time it si well 
plantations, because it ean be cut out and made into | better ening of bo Pears nre in one de 
Finder. pas in Tu ane and to better purpose than | withont being too lof! E pn in g a a miscellaneous | by t themselves, and Apples in nnother. Besides Marie 
any other woo ps we had only the, DIM prominent among which were one or two| Louise, we observed good samples of Winter Nelis, 
pleasure of looking at i » ed "itane; but as we drew | good Crotons, a well managed t of the lovely| Brown Beurré, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Beurré de 
nearer the mansion, A e within the dress | Franciscea esa per some nice piecesof Or thide mhian | Capiaumont, Beurré Clairgeau, Glou Morceau, and 
circle of gardening, P pe d the 4 "gren luxuriance of Mr. Bisset seems desi da imet although in the | very fine Passe Colmar; while in Apples there were 
American sbrubs of all kinds, here | late Lord Sefton’s time, he telle m e, they Tad to he very good Cox's Orange Pippin, Court of Wick, King 
uite at home, apparen atly revelling in the soil in which Fs , in Ld p. of He» "ad such as a|of Pippins, e ana Russet, and Dumelow ^s Seedling, 
grow, and presenting every indication of APde | Mushr Iam not & mh ig ge wots i | which i a found to be a most excellent kitchen rye 
health, nts abunds u 1 if my friend i is dir o "- Ln says that “ — This al a aer rd is a fine old place, and the general 
The and. de stables are situated in conti- | rooms were then as now a thing of far greater dit on Mr. Bisset. J. A. 
guilty, the “one being within speaking distance of the | ance.” In Basra t d, | 
other, which seems to have been part of the plan en | Bouvardia delia i t chast 
erected. The mansion is a large s po t. with li of late autumn d Ee - ith blo Misc 
tensions t hit ; and the stables |and a most rd af "Bopgeipvillon x Romance of ud Mistleto.— e ean n be no see on 
f Se fton we virtue a fist from. t| 
are after the same style. The Ja arl m. Alene rare soil ies le in, at one end of a 
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i of the fos desirable p" itt pt of those mauve bracts which, from |. 
attempt has been made nntil within these few years w heir sing re, look more "n than real. . 
"ree toa pnd extent, and. 
whi seems e be a n 1 
iakin ng of him, E Ao) his much respected | is wa r the M. Ws for quality, Lu it is| to trace down the 
gardent, says—'' He was a had more desire aren dp and a ere in large numbers. — These + succeedi 
study the wants of a Buil tenantry than de an ens, with a f. ds ? Garena whieh 4 ; 
f uy: show at home,” but he adds, “no man but b most handsame ft and not over plentiful, form the 
father before him, had more exquisite taste in fruit asd chief sor ts in these There oe use ranges 
vegetables." of us wd F A hed Cucumbers, Strawberries, | i 
The present Earl of Sefton, however, actuated by | French Beans, Potatos, and other desirable vegetables, | to is 
the spirit of progress, "S while following pd Aa which seem to be greatly run upon by the family, and| have not been otherwise 
foots D in matters of agriculture, has s also gi scope must supplied at all Seasons. ‘berry plants for | for. E “49 of l 
sset’s ideas in V promoting ud Lx raging segre were particularly fine. The 7 own here curious 
EA ativ a e ru ; aud tber now numerqus the ubiquitous s Kéens' Seedlin Prince of Press ached at Stavely, 
plant houses instead of a few Versetlos for Grape and Wales, ecd a very rar yeu vant, s " i — of | pas : "Heare m esch 
Eine culture, of the merits of Ta eat Draxtath io eam the very ar packing, fi ushed | had Wiere T uiid p famous Mistletoe tree, the 
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Vine - epa at understood then Y p d | table, thie sort p carry quite ids if dne care is | tree the followin ing let 
Grapes under gle in nth days voulo $ be cons sidered used. Another new sort, called Duc de Malakoff, seemed | to Mrs. Colepeper (mca 
omew. f Mr, Bisset msi; am the | to have strong erowns, and was rather prepossessing ; et was t vid b years 1 
old range o ‘one time ny ni but it is PR AEREE A Mati : ^ nes Keeps’ | Dea v ay i fy 
grown siim ilanen T. Vines ire planted m an | Seedling, though we undérstand th h 
eru ent and Her the (tuit w p th t t o yar most rro abe 
— pe od ripened, the ro were |“ traveller.” Tomatos were also treated to a Ys and It has DoE. to me partin the 
[denn overing of s This | were finish hed up in 5: pital style; the hd xd, * by the YE mi 
t tmi i ps E x ai as e T fein was | doors is quite unsuited to ipis Avy not till, ^ y 
m EOM hen tl — oed 5 Wha Vant mm agre senile. ste such a org id | never ae ted evenly 
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some véry good samples of Bowpod | Madea, very highly | then transferring them to 
be pes ‘and also $ of ng e dd inte afterwards seems to 
Grape, West's at P a e's gs | useful pits was Me 
ar tes es similar in bun E bat ‘hes one ia egre and spri 
always having a pro leaf, the other qi P" zalea amena. 
f i, and is here grown in both large and Mofa vice ample : lands are 
d bores t al got $ Doe. h £ seo ifuly set with flower, the pratica thing f glories of the west county, tor TS I 
ood OE -octagonal front, being plant maginable for drawing-room stands, bouquets, and or the mos | 
Mosen ghil the itidem are Vineri Theberge, a either cases, which is not cultivated to halt | r ve seen it ll id even ifi aie ed 
of e Aq: ‘been regen CM up, mp, and. give. a the. extent it ought to be for such purposes. uaint devices of Miserere; whilst Oak—every 
charter on finish ot of great extent, althoug h portion of which in the “days: of Celtic eaim was was 
nd tables it is actnally larger mes at first sight appears 
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E rein En n X as filled with a | not I surrounded but "mibiivided by brisk. walls, one of" the Liv sa trees studied by m 
E o pim ae sr which are apt to mislead one in judging | decorated’ period, 
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