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south-south-west; and, twelve years smce, it was what we call 

 in Devonshire a furze brake ; or it might, perhaps, be more pro- 

 perly called a furze down, with a great part of it a barren rock. 

 In the year 1823, Mrs. Jobnes took a fancy to build and plant; 

 and the cottage she has erected is certainly the prettiest thing I 

 have ever seen. From the drawingroom, at the east end, we 

 enter a pretty conservatory, 40 ft. long by 15 ft. wide, full of 

 choice creepers, with canted glasses, reflecting the whole three 

 ways. From this we proceed to the flower-garden, in front of 

 the house, which is 60 yards by 30 yards, with a fountain in 

 front of the drawingroom window, and laid out in beds of dif- 

 ferent forms. Here are all the species of magnolia, which do 

 well ; rhododendrons, which make no great growth, but flower 

 profusely ; myrtles, geraniums, camellias, Pittosporum Tohira, 

 Clethra arb^rea. Yucca «loif61ia, now coming in bloom ; and 

 Agave americana; all of which do well in the open air, without 

 protection. Salvias, except <S. splendens, are also all found quite 

 hardy perennials; and in some seasons they become quite hardy 

 shrubs, not being injured with the frost. The Cinnamomum 

 Cdmphora, against the wall, is quite hardy ; the Ribes sanguineum, 

 as a dwarf shrub, standing on the grass plot, fruits to great per- 

 fection, producing bunches of beautiful blue fruit, 5 in. long. 

 Prom the flower-garden we ascend the grounds by winding walks, 

 almost forming a labyrinth : in one of those walks I have a 

 vinery, which answers also as a green-house, formed in a lime- 

 stone quarry; which, with the natural rock, and other kinds of 

 rock that I have introduced, completes a rock house, in which 

 are plunged my plants. In this house the Psidium Cattleyawz^m 

 fruits to perfection without fire heat ; the situation being so fa- 

 vourable, that I have had no occasion to light a fire but once for 

 five years, and then only for a few hours, to air the flue. My 

 oranges in this house, I think, are as fine as you ever saw. You 

 may think I boast by saying this ; but, should you visit Devon- 

 shire at any time, I should be very proud to show them to you. 

 Here I have the cactus tribe in great perfection, suspended from 

 the roof by wire ; being of a decided opinion it is much to their 

 advantage, and it also keeps them from those enemies the snail 

 and slug. From this green-house we ascend, by winding walks, 

 to a grass terrace, from which we have the most beautiful 

 picturesque views in nature. At our feet, as it were, we have 

 Torbay, the finest of the kind in the kingdom ; on the opposite 

 side is a fine landscape of hill and dale, woods and villages. 

 In the back-ground, fifteen miles distant, is the famous High 

 Tor, and its neighbouring hills of Dartmoor, forming a most 

 beautiful evening scene. At one end of this terrace I have a 

 small garden in the French style, the beds of which are edged 

 with sheep's trotters, which gives it a neat appearance. In this 

 place I have a moss house, paved with sheep's trotters in various 



