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at the foot by a small bed occupied with some pretty-flowered species of plant. 

 This lawn is traversed by two principal walks : one from the front of the 

 houses to the bottom of the lawn ; the other across the lawn, from west to 

 east ; and, also, by some subordinate walks in other directions. It is blended 

 with the boundary belt on the southward by an intervening bank, planted, 

 from the eastward end to about the middle, with rhododendrons (that have a 

 nearly 3 ft. depth of heath mould provided for them, and have, this year, been 

 splendid in flower), and rendered, in its remaining length, a ridge of rude rock- 

 work occupied by British plants, some of them in flower. Along the upper 

 part of this ridge, a few stumps, cut long, of trees with their roots attached, are 

 get, bottom upwards ; and about these, severally, is planted ivy, honeysuckle, 

 and hop, whose branches will, it is expected, dispose themselves over the pro- 

 truding roots in a tressy pleasing manner. The boundary belt on the east- 

 ward side is thin enough to allow peeps through it into the park beyond"; and 

 the garden foreground to this boundary is a broad border stored with species 

 of herbaceous plants. Amongst these, Anehusa italica was now in splendid 

 beauty; Ischium rossicum, an interesting species, was in flower, with a stem 

 3 ft. high ; Smilacina (Convallaria) racemosa, a cluster of stems of, were bear- 

 ing several panicles of flowers ; Erodium Gussdm" was flowering ; and Astra- 

 galus monspessulanus seeding freely. The westward termination to the lawn 

 is a walk, some few feet from the wall, bestrode from end to end with a light 

 rustic archwork, which supports a collection of climbing kinds of rose ; and 

 these, with the archwork, and with tall shrubs which are planted between the 

 archwork and the wall, soften the line of termination in this direction. On 

 the southward side of the northern boundary, a considerable space of wall is 

 left clear of the westward end of the range of houses. This space of wall 

 gives scope to the culture of some choice shrubs trained to its face. Of the 

 kinds against it, we noticed S611y« heterophylla, Acacia Julibrissin, Ceandthus 

 azureus, Magnolia grandiflora, a species of Passiflora, the yellow pomegranate 

 in bud for flowers, the scarlet (double) flowered pomegranate with some 

 flowers open. In front, on this space of wall, there is a border of some 

 breadth ; and, among the choice species of plants growing in it, we have noted 

 these : — Pentstemon speciosus, flowering ; Alstrcemeria Simsii and Flos Mar- 

 tini, the flowers of the latter of finer colour than the flowers of a plant of 

 it in the stove ; Brodiae v a congesta ; Disporum fulvum, 2 ft. high, and shows 

 flower-buds. This, we learned, flowers annually here, and attains the height of 

 3 ft. ; and Lubim'a atropurpurea, about to flower abundantly. A strip of 

 rockwork, about three yards broad, is placed immediately in front of the two 

 stoves; but is interrupted in the middle, to leave the entrance to the central 

 green-house clear. This rockwork consists of a slightly elevated bank of soil, 

 into which stones are partially immersed ; and, in this genial warm site, many 

 interesting plants are thriving to admiration. We name a few of them : — 

 Celsi« cretica, Coronilla iberica, Tetragondlobus siliquosus, .Delphinium pic- 

 tum ; a Geranium, from abroad, by the name of argenteum, but very unlike 

 the argenteum of some British collections ; Linaria Cymbalaria, white-corol- 

 laed ; and Paronychia hispanica (/llecebrum Paronychia P.), all in flower. 

 These are the outlines of the garden; and a walk of comfortable width is 

 introduced between them and the lawn : except that the arch-covered walk on 

 the westward side is the bounding one ; and side arches at intervals, all along, 

 allow egress from this walk to the lawn. 



To speak, now, of the plants upon the lawn itself. Of the shrubs, we shall 

 name ^Tbies Douglasii, more than 6 ft. high ; Kibes speciosum ; Sollya hetero- 

 phylla, recently transplanted from the green-house, and its branches trained 

 about a surrounding guard of wirework ; Crataegus fanacetifolia, in flower, 

 and, twisted about its stem, a plant of Billardiera scandens ; showing some first 

 flowers open, and buds in abundance for successive ones : this plant has stood 

 here three winters unhurt. Magnolia tripetala, just going out of flower, but 

 retaining petals enough (the natural number of these is from nine to twelve) 

 to show that the name tripetala is not an apt one. The noble large leaves of 



