THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



JANUARY, 1837. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Brief Notices, made on several Occasions, token visiting some 

 Noblemen s and Gentlemen's Seats, in the Autumn of 1836. By 

 Thomas Rutger. 



As many of the places named below are, in some instances, 

 amply described in the Ninth Volume of this Magazine, I have 

 endeavoured to avoid repetition, and only noticed such things 

 as may be considered useful and interesting to the gardening 

 world in general, as well as to those who may feel a particular 

 interest in the places visited. 



Ditton Park. — In taking a view of Ditton Park, the seat of 

 Lord Montagu, I was particularly struck with the fine and lofty 

 timber trees which are growing in a soil which seems to be well 

 adapted for all the kinds indigenous to Britain. Mr. Hutchinson, 

 the gardener, pointed out a lime which, he said, measured nearly 

 130 ft. in height. In the park are some declining oaks of gigantic 

 dimensions. In surveying the lawns, divided, as they are, into 

 several sections, by trees and shrubs of stately growth, it occurred 

 to me that very few places at an equal distance from the metro- 

 polis could be found to offer such advantages for the introduction 

 of all the choice and newly introduced trees and plants, which 

 are now becoming the ornaments of many of the principal gentle- 

 men's'seats and villas in this country. Here they would find 

 ample protection, as well as a soil apparently well suited to their 

 growth. Near one of the small lawns is a green-house, or con- 

 servatory, with a trellis at the back, furnished with young orange 

 trees, which appear healthy : in front of the conservatory is the 

 flower-garden, in a situation which I approve of, it being pretty 

 near the house, and, at the same, time so separated from the 

 lawns as not to interfere with them. The flower-garden is in 

 the Dutch style, with an erection in the centre for seats, which is 

 covered with ivy. On one side of the flower-gardcA there is a 

 handsome pyramid, or cone, of the giant ivy, mixed with the 

 Ayrshire rose, and the Virginian creeper, supported by the re- 



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