THE 



GARDENER S MAGAZINE, 



DECEMBER, 1833. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notes on Gardeiis and Country Seats, visited, Jrom July 27- 

 to September 16., during a Tour through Part of Middlesex, 

 Berkshire, Buchinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, 

 Haynpshire, Sussex, and Kent. By the Conductor. 



(Continued from p. 529.) 



Stoke Farm, Lord Sefton. — The grounds are not very ex- 

 tensive, and they are perfectly even, or uniform on the surface, 

 having a gentle slope towards the south. The house consists 

 chiefly of an addition made some years ago to a farm house ; 

 and, taking the place altogether, it is appropriately named. 

 The house differs decidedly from those of the two preceding 

 places, it being entered on one side instead of from behind, so 

 that the principal beauties are shown from the approach road. 

 There is a very neat flower-garden by Mr. Repton, which is 

 kept fully stocked with pelargoniums and other showy free- 

 flowering green-house plants. There is a very useful object 

 here, which deserves imitation in all warm situations ; viz., a 

 large recess in a wing, connected with the house by a veranda 

 open to the south, and furnished with tables, chairs, &c. In 

 this loggia, as the Italians would call it, the family, when by 

 themselves, may pass the greater part of the day, during the 

 heat of summer. Windsor Castle, the usual distant feature of 

 the seats in this neighbourhood, is seen from this alcove, be- 

 neath the branches of spreading trees. On the lawn opposite 

 the entrance front are some raised beds of flowers, with ivy 

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