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understood, a greater unanimity of judgment on matters of taste 

 than has ever heretofore been disjjlayed. 



North Stoneham Parsonage, the llev. F. Beado?i. — • August 20. 

 The situation is low and flat, and therefore not favourable for 

 acclimatising plants ; but, in other respects, the place may be 

 compared with that of Mr. Garnier (which we saw the same day, 

 and which is described at length in X. 124.), with a greater pre- 

 ponderance of herbaceous plants. Mr. Beadon was from home ; 

 but we were shown through the place by his very intelligent 

 gardener, Mr. Harding. The first things we noticed were the 

 magnolias ; and a Z^osa sanguinea, against the house, 27 ft. 

 high, on its own root, and covered with roses from the ground 

 to the roof. Against the conservatory wall, or wall for accli- 

 matising plants, are many of those usually kept in green- 

 houses. Among the plants on this wall, we observed Chimo- 

 nanthus fragrans, ripening seed ; Alstroemer/a hirtella, in flower, 

 with shoots upwards of 6 ft. long ; Thunberg/a alata, in great 

 luxuriance, sowing itself every year, a proof that it may be 

 treated as an annual. Maurandy« Barclaya/za here, as in some 

 other places, is found to be perfectly hardy ; and the same, we 

 have no doubt, will be found to be the case with hundreds of 

 other plants which have not yet been tried. Among the beds 

 on the lawn may be noticed one of Rosa, sanguinea, bordered 

 by O'xalis floribunda ; and one of Ferbena chamaedrifolia, 

 mixed with Thunbergz'a alata. The collection of choice shrubs 

 and ornamental trees is remarkable, considering the limited 

 extent of the place; the secret of which is, that few common 

 plants or duplicates are admitted. There is not a greater mis- 

 take, in planting pleasure-grounds, than the mixing of the com- 

 mon or indigenous shrubs of the country with foreign or impi'oved 

 species or varieties. It is as bad in a garden, as it would be, in 

 the elevation of a house, to mix Grecian ornaments with Gothic 

 ones. 



In the kitchen-garden are excellent crops of fruit on mud 

 walls ; a choice collection of apples ; a strawberry stage, like 

 that at Swallowfield Place (IX. 677.); ginger grown in a pit; 

 and a system of wires stretched over the whole surface of the 

 walls, communicating with a bell to set the dogs barking should 

 any person intrude to steal the fruit. 



Southampton. — August 22. This town is wonderfully im- 

 proved, and increased in size, since we last saw it, when on a 

 walking excursion through the New Forest and the Isle of 

 Wight, in 1807. The elm tree avenue, forming the London 

 approach to the town, has been extended by planting young 

 trees on both sides of the road : but, considering the richness of 

 the corporation, we think they might have formed prepared 

 and manured pits of soil for each tree, and surrounded each by 



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