THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



MAY, 1834. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notes on Gardens and Country Seats, visited, from July 27. 

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

 shire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Hamp- 

 shire, Sussex, and Kent. By the Conductor. 



(Continued from p. 119.) 



LlTTLECOT Park, General Popham. — Aug. 16. This is a fine 

 old place of the sixteenth century, with both the house and the 

 grounds in perfect preservation. Taking it altogether, we 

 hardly know of such another : Wroxton, near Banbury, bears 

 a remote resemblance to it. The house lies in a deep secluded 

 bottom on the river Kennet, enclosed by walled gardens ; which 

 are surrounded by a park consisting of high ground under turf, 

 and laid out in avenues and lines, chiefly of elms and beeches, in 

 the geometrical style. The approach-road forms an avenue of 

 elms 30 ft. wide and a furlong in length, which brings the 

 stranger to the enriched iron gates in front of the venerable 

 mansion. It is characterised by high roofs covered with tiles, 

 by various gable-ends projecting from them, and by magnificent 

 cathedral-like windows, reaching from the ground to the eaves. 

 The entrance is through iron gates and palisading, to a circular 

 platform ; to the right and left of which are flower-gardens and 

 shrubberies, planted with shrubs and flowers now considered 

 common, but kept in the very highest order. At the west end 

 of one of these gardens is a raised platform, or terrace, from 

 which the park and all the pleasure-gardens are overlooked. 

 Having obtained permission from the general to see the place, 

 we passed on to the kitchen-garden. In this garden, the first 

 things which we observed were glass frames, in M. Lindegaard's 

 manner, for ripening peaches and nectarines against the walls, 

 without fire-heat. These frames occasion very little trouble ; 

 and the fruit comes in between the forced peaches and those 

 ripened on the open wall. There are a number of hot-houses 

 and pits, in which pine-apples, melons, and other articles are 

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