330 Notes on Gardens and Cotinhy Seats : — 



their addition. There is a naked shadeless walk which leads to 

 a small flower-garden, a rosary, and the kitchen-garden. The 

 flower-garden is surrounded by a low brick wall, on which are 

 some fine Cape and Australian shrubs, which stand the winter 

 without the slightest protection [some of these have been already 

 noticed, p. 208.]. We noted down Acacia loph^ntha and armata ; 

 Plumbago, two specimens; Fiburnum rug5sum, several camel- 

 lias, Escallonfa montevidensis and rubra, Maurandyo', Alstroe- 

 merm, Hedychium, Agapanthus, Mesembryanthemum, &c. &c. 

 In the boundary hedge of the rosary were large myrtles, and a 

 Callistemon lanceolatus, 15 ft. high, which had been out ten 

 years. Near the conservatory was a i^hododendron ponticum, 

 15 ft. high, the branches of which covered a space 39 yards in 

 circumference ; and, in a shubbery at the back of the kitchen- 

 garden, were two or three fine specimens of liquidambar, 

 deciduous cypress, catalpa, and large planes. The effect of 

 the yellow green foliage of the latter in these grounds, and also 

 at Paultons and other places, is very striking as contrasted with 

 the dark green of the magnificent oaks and hollies, which are so 

 abundant in both places. This, and several circumstances of 

 the kind, may afford important hints to landscape-gardeners in 

 the distribution of trees. 



Riiigwood. — We took a circuitous road to this place, in order 

 to see as much as possible of the forest scenery. The first part 

 of our route displayed oaks and hollies, chiefly of great age, dis- 

 tributed over a varied and broken surface ; showing fine rising 

 glades and green bottoms, with occasional glimpses of distant 

 scenery of the same character. To the oaks succeeded several 

 miles of beeches ; and to these a comparatively open country, 

 with new plantations of Scotch pines and oaks in regular en- 

 closures. The major part of the surface of a route of thirteen 

 or fourteen miles was, however, nearly bare, but with a rich soil, 

 as was decidedly proved by the size of the furze and the fern. 

 We cannot help being of opinion that it would be better for the 

 public, and the government also, if the whole forest were sold to 

 individuals and cultivated as private property. The church at 

 Ringwood has double doors; one set having, as usual, solid 

 panels, and the other panels of open work ; the latter only are 

 closed in fine weather, so that a current of air passes through 

 the church, which is thus kept always thoroughly ventilated ; a 

 practice which seems to deserve general adoption. 



Honnslow's Nursery. — Mr. Hounslow pointed out to us a 

 singularly eligible site for an American ground, which has 

 lately come into his occupation, and in which he means to cul- 

 tivate a good collection, having already possessed himself of 

 stools of some valuable hybrid azaleas and rhododendrons. He 

 h£is had the good fortune to raise a new variety of the early 



