670 Notes on Gardens and Country Seats: — 



ciuctive of great variety of form and outline, and is a more 

 effective scene than if it were broader, and the trees standing 

 closer together. 



Calcot House, Mrs. Bevil, is a massive brick building, W\\h 

 a finely undulated park, varied with noble trees. The house 

 is large ; and though faulty as a piece of architecture, yet, as 

 contrasted with the green of the trees and the turf, it has a 

 grand effect. 



A new Church has been erected at Theale, the body of which 

 is satisfactory, but the tower, and all the turrets, and termi- 

 nations to the buttresses, are too short ; they want that bold- 

 ness and freedom of style which in all arts is the characteristic 

 of the master, — of the mind which has perfect confidence in 

 what it is doing. 



Englefield House, R. P. Benyon de Beauvoir, Esq., is most 

 nobly situated on the side of a considerable hill, covered with 

 fine old wood. From the road the house (which is a building 

 extended in length, with a tower-like projection at each end) 

 is seen rising through the wood. There is nothing done in the 

 way of pleasure-ground around it, but there is a most excel- 

 lent kitchen-garden, managed by one of the best cultivators in 

 England, Mr. Greenshields, author of an excellent paper on the 

 pine-apple, in the Horticidtural Transactions, quoted in our 

 Encyc. of Gard., and also in this Magazine (Vol. I. p. 426.). 

 Adjoining the kitchen-garden there is a flower-garden, with a 

 conservatory, and a plant stove. The wall trees and other 

 particulars respecting this place have been noticed by our 

 correspondent, Mr. Saunders. (Vol. VI. p. 655.) The trans- 

 planted trees, which he there speaks of, are, however, plums 

 against a wall, and not standard pears. The garden has been 

 lately enlarged, and some new walls have been built : in one 

 direction, where it is proposed to extend the garden still 

 farther, Mr. Greenshields has put up a wavy 4-in. wall, 10 ft. 

 high, which forms a very good fruit wall in the meantime, and 

 can be removed at very little expense. This wall has no 

 piers, and the coping is of semi-oval bricks (see Ency. of Gard., 

 § 1567. 2d edition). Mr. Greenshields grows the winter 

 Auchan pear here to very great perfection, and has now some 

 trees trained in the en quenouille manner, but more systemati- 

 cally, and, indeed, more in the balloon manner, which have 

 o-ood crops. He intends to have balloons rising one out of 

 another, each smaller than that below, so that the tree, when 

 finished, will appear like a tapering column of pears, stuck 

 into one another with the broad ends uppermost. The object 

 is to gain room for kitchen crops, and to produce something 

 new and varied in appearance. Much of his success, in our 



