Rejdy to Mr. Mai?i^s Hejoinder. 529 



almost entirely changed by Mr. Penn, and his present most 

 intelligent gardener and land steward, Mr. Osborne. The 

 pleasure-ground is laid out in what may be called the classical 

 style of the poet Mason ; the forms of the masses of flowers 

 and shrubs being generally circular or oval, and each scene 

 distinguished by appropriate statues, or busts on therms, hke 

 those formerly in the flower-garden at Newnham Courtney. 

 We hope at some future period to be able to give a plan and 

 description of these grounds. The house in the Grecian 

 style, and Doric, appears to a stranger remarkably well 

 placed, though, like most others built about the same time, 

 it wants an architectural basement and appendages. The 

 summit is crowned with a cupola, which, from want of show- 

 ing deep reveals to the openings, has a temporary air, as though 

 it were built of boards, and coloured in imitation of stone. 

 The truth is, it was an after-thought, and these are always 

 bad. The whole place was in good order. 



(To be continued.) 



Art. II. A Reply to Mr. J. Mains Rejoinder (p. 283.). By the 

 Author of the " Domestic Gardener's Manual." 



Sir, 



I ECHO your words, and assure you that I, too, am much 

 obliged by the kindness and good spirit evinced in your re- 

 joinder (p. 283.) to my previous paper (p. ISG.)- It is calm 

 yet powerful, argumentative, and eloquent. My reply shall 

 be as simple and candid as I can possibly make it. Ours, 

 Sir, is no controversy ; it is merely an emulation, a mutual 

 whetting of ability, a rousing of mental power to discover 

 truth, and to present it to the view of others. 



I do not think that I mistook the nature or drift of your 

 questions ; but, perhaps, I failed to reply to them in the exact 

 manner which you anticipated. Be this as it may, I shall 

 now at once meet your present first enquiry, without further 

 delay. 



" Caji the organic structure of plants he formed by, or out of, 

 their juices ? " My safest answer, perhaps, would be given 

 in the form of another question : — Is there a man living, will 

 that man ever exist, who can distinctly point out, and clearly 

 show, 'what the process of assimilation is? I greatly fear that there 

 are points which the human intellect never could, never will, 

 be able to grapple with. All our Jmowledge, so styled, is, I 

 am strongly inclined to believe, but little more than the just 

 appropriation of certain conventional terms. This I shall 



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