28 List of Places from x<oliicli Beturn Papers 



devices, initials, date of year, &c. ; and a table in the middle, 

 covered with fir cones, and edged v.ith the same. Here I have 

 displayed my winter evenings' amusements, all kinds of figures, 

 from the elephant down to the little mouse, made of fir cones, 

 the produce of my own growth and labour. Imagine to your- 

 self a Highland shepherd, with lambs in his bosom, and a shep- 

 herdess with her pet lamb, with a flock surrounding them, 

 frio-htened, as it were, with a fox and hounds in full chase. In 

 another part I have imitated a farm-yard, where the maid is 

 milking her cows, and an old woman feeding her geese ; the 

 geese, as well as the old woman, appearing quite frightened : for 

 here the fox is run up, and the huntsman is seen winding his 

 horn. In another part is a Devonshire plough, drawn by four 

 oxen, with a man driving, &c. ; all made of the same material. 

 Suspended from the roof, by way of lamp, is the emblem of 

 peace, a dove with the olive branch in its mouth, surrounded by 

 a flock of canaries, suspended, also, from the roof. By means of 

 vistas cut through the trees, we see, from the moss house, the 

 entrance to Torbay from the Channel, Berry Head, &c. 



From this we turn into another terrace, 300 yards long, with 

 borders of dahlias and other flowers on each side, leading to a 

 grass-plot of three quarters of an acre, with beds for roses, cis- 

 tuses, helianthemums, stocks, and various other things. Here 

 \»^e are fenced in with a wrought-iron paling, 700 ft. long, allow- 

 ing a public path on the outside, which is a great accommodation 

 to the inhabitants of Torquay. Here, also, is situated my little 

 cottage, commanding a beautiful view of the bay, and also of the 

 Channel, the envy of all who see it. A few paces from this, on 

 the top of the hill, we have a panoramic view of the country and 

 Channel to a great extent, including many of the Dartmoor hills, 

 reaching, as it were, to the clouds. 



Art. VI. A List of the Places in Great Britain and Ireland from 

 which Return Papers have been received for the Arboretum Bri- 

 TANNicuM, up to the 2l5^ of November, 1835. By the Conductor. 



Notwithstanding the immense number of Return Papers 

 (that is, of skeleton lists of trees on four folio pages, headed as 

 shown in X. 582.) which we have sent out in all directions, 

 we have as yet received papers back from those places only the 

 names of which are enumerated in the following list. We 

 publish this list in order that, by making known the places from 

 which we have received returns, those proprietors or gardeners 

 from whom we have not received them, but who are friendly to 

 our undertaking, may still have an opportunity of sending. 

 Some, also, who have sent lists themselves, or who have not any 

 trees that they think worthy of notice, may yet discover that a 



