Gardens and Gardening in Durham. 439 



and may be easily destroyed ; and the destruction of one moth 

 will thus prevent the injuries arising from one, if not several, 

 colonies "of caterpillars in the following season. 



Art. II. Some Account of Gardens and the State of Gardening in 

 the County of Durham. By J. B. W. 



{Continued from p. 203.) 



Darlington is a thriving town, a few miles on the Durham 

 side of the Tees, which river separates the counties of Durham 

 and York. Its prosperity is owing, in a great measure, to the 

 coal trade, for which it is a central depot, being connected by a 

 railway with Wilton Park colliery and the port of Stockton, and 

 by another railway with a village called Croft, whence an ex- 

 tensive district is supplied with fuel. Several branches of manu- 

 facture are likewise carried on at Darlington, but not to any 

 great extent. 



Many of the principal merchants and bankers have villas on 

 the outskirts of the town, to some of which neat gardens are 

 attached. One of the best of these belongs to Joseph Pease, Esq., 

 jun., M.P. This gentleman is a member of the Society of 

 Friends, of whose creed it is well known to be a leading prin- 

 ciple to abjure the " glitter and glare of ornament ; " and the 

 influence of this principle is as visible in the absence of archi- 

 tectural embellishment from the exterior of their buildings, as it 

 is in the simplicity and neatness of their dress. All the mansions 

 that I have seen belonging to gentlemen of this persuasion have 

 a great similarity of chai'acter : they are plain brick structures, 

 with, in most cases, an equally plain portico at the chief entrance, 

 and generally having roses and other flowering shrubs trained up 

 the walls. Mr. Pease's house and grounds occupy an angle formed 

 by the junction of two public roads, which constitute the boundary 

 line on two sides : notwithstanding this disadvantage, however, 

 considerable skill is displayed in the laying out of this circum- 

 scribed space, particularly in placing the plantations so as effec- 

 tually to hide the view of the adjoining town, and in causing the 

 paddocks in front of the house to assume something of a park- 

 like character, by judicious planting, and the absence of con- 

 spicuous fences^ On the lawn, among many of the less common 

 varieties of Quercus, Cratee^gus, &c., there is a fine specimen of 

 the fern-leaved beech, which appears to keep pace in growth with 

 the common species. The hot-houses stand at the back of the 

 lawn, between the mansion and the kitchen-garden. Stove plants 

 are grown in one, and in the other is the best collection of pelar- 

 goniums I have yet seen in the north ; but, as the roofs of these 



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