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Paulton^s Park, Sloane Stanley, Esq. — Aug. 25. This place 

 is chiefly remarkable for some fine old timber, chiefly oak; but 

 partly, also, beech, elm, and silver firs and Scotch pines. Many 

 very large silver firs were cut down during the late war, some of 

 which sold as high as 80/. each. A few still remain, generally 

 standing three together, in a triangle, at about 7 ft. or 8 ft. apart, 

 centre from centre : they are now from 2^ ft. to 3 ft. in diameter, 

 at 1 ft. from the ground, and about 100 ft. high. They are still 

 growing ,with considerable vigour, as are most of the other trees. 

 There is a river here, formed by Brown ; and at the head is a cast- 

 iron sluice, of a new construction, by Bramah, calculated to pre- 

 vent any waste of water. Wherever water is scarce, a sluice of this 

 kind ought to be adopted. The kitchen-garden, under the ma- 

 nagement of Mr. White, we found in as good order as any which 

 we have seen since we left London ; but we cannot say much in 

 favour of any other part of the grounds. The house appeared 

 to us put down in a place without any " mark or likelihood ;" 

 and the road approaches it so as to show every part of the lawn 

 before setting down at the entrance front. The house, with all 

 its accompaniments, is, indeed, beneath criticism. 



In passing from this place to Lyndhurst, we saw some of the 

 experimental plantations of the Commissioners of Woods and 

 Forests. It appears that the present plan is to cover the ground 

 with rows of Scotch pines ; and, after these are 5 ft. or 6 ft. in 

 height, and their branches have nearly met, to introduce rows of 

 oaks, 3 ft. high, between them. These oaks merely exist the first 

 year ; but, the second, they produce shoots from 3 ft. to 6 ft. in 

 length, and very soon overtop the pines. The branches of the 

 pines are then foreshortened, in Mr. Billington's manner, and in 

 that of Mr. Blaikie. This is found, Mr. Page informs us, to be 

 the most rapid mode of raising oak timber hitherto tried in this 

 forest ; and, as he has had a great deal to do with the planting 

 and management of these enclosures for many years past, he has 

 promised us some important information on the subject, which 

 we shall have great pleasure in laying before our readers. 



(To be continued.') 



Art. II. A Working Plan for laying out and planthig a Suburban 

 Flotuer- Garden, containing about a Quarter of an Acre, and situated 

 within Two Miles of St. Paul's, London. By the Conductor. 



Our object in giving this design is, to show in what manner 

 some variety of form may be given to flower beds, in a case 

 where scarcely any circumstance is propitious ; and also to 

 show that, in planting these beds, a considerable collection of 



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