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in an unchanged volume of air, while we think it necessary to 

 have the air in the atmosphere in which we breathe during the 

 other twelve hours of the twenty-four changed continually^ 

 Surely this changing of the air must be as necessary during the 

 night as during the day. These observations do not apply 

 more to the house at Pepper Harrow than they do to most 

 other gentlemen's seats, and probably not so much so to it, as 

 they would to many others ; but still we make them here as 

 they here arose in our mind, and we think they may be useful. 

 No style of finishing in a room will ever compensate us for the 

 want of ample dimensions. 



There are some remarkably fine trees in Pepper Harrow Park, 

 a number of which, with the permission of Lord Midleton, and 

 the assistance of his gardener, Mr. Giddings, we measured and 

 noted down. There are a great many large old cedars, which, 

 however, have chiefly taken the character of bushes. One of 

 these is 73 ft. high ; the diameter of the trunk at a foot from the 

 ground is upwards of 6 ft., and of the space covered by its 

 branches, 84 ft. Another is 75 ft. high ; the trunk 7 ft. in dia- 

 meter; and the diameter of the space covered by its branches is 

 102 ft. A larch lately cut down was 73 ft. high, and 4 ft. in dia- 

 meter. There are red cedars from 30 ft. to 40 ft. high, and a holly 

 from 65 ft. to 70 ft. high. The sweet-scented crab (Pyrus coro- 

 naria) thrives remarkably well, and has sown itself in abundance 

 throughout the plantations. There are a liquidambar 50 ft, high, 

 hemlock spruces about the same height, and a Quercus Phellos 

 65ft. high; Turkey oaks 80ft. high, bladder nut 35ft. high, 

 Cratae^gus punctata 33 ft. high; and a number of other large 

 trees, including common oaks, elms, and beeches, which will be 

 found duly registered in our Arboretum Britannicum. The 

 kitchen-garden and flower-garden we found in excellent order, 

 and all the crops good. The pines were particularly so ; and 

 also the grapes. In the pinery, four very large plants of Glo- 

 riosa superba were in seed ; and some other ornamental plants 

 were very finely grown. The system of watering practised in 

 the kitchen-gardens here is worthy of notice. There are tanks 

 distributed over the gardens, communicating with one another 

 and with a head reservoir of liquid manure at the stables, and 

 another near it of clean water, in such a manner as that every tank 

 can be filled either with pure water, or liquid manure, or with a 

 mixture of these, at pleasure. The pond at the stable, and the 

 supply of pure water, are at the highest points, and all the tanks 

 are on somewhat lower levels. The communication between the 

 tanks is by underground pipes. From each tank, the water or 

 liquid manure is either taken out with watering-pots, and dis- 

 tributed in the usual manner, or it is raised by a portable pump 

 into a gutter formed of loose tiles, whence it is distributed over 



