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(with the exception of the ball-room, which is in that of 

 Louis XIV.) ; but they are not yet furnished. 



Iti?i at Salthill. — Aug. 5. This house, which has attained 

 great celebrity for furnishing all the comforts of private life 

 to the higher classes, has had the character also of a garden 

 inn, to our knowledge, for the last thirty years. The veranda, 

 when we first saw it, was hung with festoons, from one end 

 to the other, of Coboe^a scandens ; and it is now varied by 

 many of the finest modern creepers. At the foot of the sup- 

 ports, the finer sorts of fuchsias, pelargoniums, calceolarias, 

 and other green-house exotics, are flourishing with as great 

 luxuriance, and as completely untouched by passengers, as if 

 they were bordered by a lawn in front of a gentleman's seat. 

 We can only compare this veranda with that at Mrs. Starkey's 

 cottage at Bowness (Vol. VII. p. 525.), similarly circum- 

 stanced : a proof, among many that might be adduced, that the 

 public will never injure things meant to be enjoyed by them. 

 Across the road is a garden, of about a quarter of an acre, 

 laid out as pleasure-ground, with numerous flower-beds on 

 turf, a straight broad gravel walk opposite the centre of the 

 veranda, numerous fine trees, a mount, a seat under a tree, 

 a summer-house, a bower, swings, and a green-house well 

 stocked with showy plants ; the whole in the very highest 

 order and keeping. 



Salthill Nursery, Mr. Stewart. — This nursery, which is of 

 considerable extent, has been established upwards of twenty- 

 five years ; and we take blame to ourselves for not having 

 before given some notice of it in this Magazine. It contains, 

 near the house (which is on the left-hand side of the road 

 when going from London), several green-houses, with a good 

 collection of the more showy and recently introduced house 

 plants ; a good assortment of choice herbaceous plants, in- 

 cluding the newest annuals ; with a number of rare trees and 

 shrubs : and, on the opposite side of the road, an ample 

 stock of forest and fruit trees. Among these is an assort- 

 ment of apples, placed in a line, including all those figured 

 or named in Ronald's Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis ; and some 

 others, not described anywhere. In the green-houses we 

 noticed, among other plants, the Cuscuta sinensis in great 

 vigour ; a choice assortment of fuchsias, many of which were 

 raised from seed by Mr. Stewart, and which promise some 

 new varieties ; and a pelargonium-house, fully stocked with the 

 best varieties. In one of Mr. Stewart's houses a Coboe^a 

 lived nine years, producing vigorous growth, and abundance 

 of flowers every year. Among the green-house plants in the 

 open air was a large Lambertm formosa, splendidly covered 



