4iJ2 Green-house Plants in the open Air. 



the more recently introduced species. The park and flower- 

 garden are both very extensive, and are kept in good order by 

 Mr. Palmer, the flower-gardener. In the kitchen-garden, which 

 is also extensive, there is the finest citron tree in England, now 

 confined for want of room, although it covers a large space 

 of a high wall, and occupies part of both Devonshire and 

 Cornwall (the division of the counties running through the 

 garden). This tree is loaded with its immense fruit ; though 

 Mr. Parker, the kitchen-gardener, told us it had only been 

 planted a few years. Close by its side grows a very fine sweet 

 orange tree, bearing quantities of beautiful ripe fruit. 



There are various interesting plants and trees at other places 

 in this part of Devonshire, which, for the present, I refrain from 

 mentioning, in hopes that the respective gardeners will give you 

 all the particulars regarding them. 



North Devon. — Sir J. H. Williams, Clovelly Court, is re- 

 markable for solitary, almost boundless, and interesting scenery, 

 and is situated on high ground above Clovelly village, which is 

 *' far in a wild, remote from public view," the walks and woods 

 extending; down to the brink of the Bristol Channel. It is near 

 Hartland Point, and exposed to the gales from the Atlantic, 

 which cut the tops from the trees on the lawn, and form them 

 into Chinese, or scrubby, dwarfs, which have an alpine and ori- 

 ginal effect. There are some fine drives cut through the banks 

 and valleys, which afford some singular and interesting views, 

 reminding one of the confines of earth and ocean. Mr. Stroud's 

 civility and attention make you forget you are from home ; and 

 he is particularly successful in his method of treating a fine fruit 

 garden in this untoward climate ; where, at various times of 

 spring and summer, the fruit trees are often left with hardly a 

 leaf on them. 



In several places in Devonshire, in moist and humid woods, 

 Polypodium vulgare grows on the trees (oak and, I believe, 

 ash), at the height of 40 ft. or 50 ft., not only in the clefts, but 

 on the upper side of the main branches, almost to the top of 

 the highest trees. This may afford a useful hint to the growers 

 of epiphytes ; and it was first shown to me by Mr. Nash, gar- 

 dener at Arlington Court, near Barnstaple. I have also seen 

 the same at J. Tremayne's, Esq., Sydenham, Devonshire, bor- 

 dering on Cornwall; where, from excess of moisture, and its 

 consequences, the hydrangea never gets more than one year's 

 growth above ground ; and the fuchsias share the same fate : 

 whereas at Clovelly Court (North Devon), in the flower-garden, 

 hydrangeas grow to an immense size, a single plant bearing 

 several thousands of seeds on umbels of flowers, although ex- 

 posed to the hurricanes from the Atlantic Ocean, &c. 



Cor7ixvall. — At Sir Charles Lemon's, at Carclew, Azalea /edi- 



