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fault, however, can be found with the practical management of 

 the plant department, which, in the summer season, is gay with 

 choice and showy flowers. 



All the beds that are upon the turf have movable edgings of 

 strong iron wire, that, so far as I can discover, answer no earthly 

 purpose except to make work, as they are to be taken up and 

 put down again every time the grass is mown. I have often seen 

 similar contrivances at other places, and as often have asked 

 myself, Why are they there? always, however, without stumbling 

 upon a satisfactory reason. Luxuriant trailing plants, such as 

 petunias and the strong-growing species of Ferbena, which gene- 

 rally overrun the limits of their beds, and therefore require re- 

 striction, may with some justice be put in irons ; but, for beds of 

 miscellaneous plants standing upon a lawn, the turf is a sufficient, 

 and the most appropriate, edging. A Lilliputian green-house is 

 attached to the mansion : it is prettily designed, and very ex- 

 pensively executed ; in fact, the money that must have been laid 

 out upon this diminutive demesne would have been amply suf- 

 ficient, under a judicious system of expenditure, for the forma- 

 tion of a garden twice the size, and of much greater real beauty. 



I observed here Myatt's pine strawberry, growing and bearing 

 better than I ever saw it before : the plants stood in a warm 

 dry situation, and the fruit was abundant and exquisitely 

 flavoured. 



Thorp Perrow, a mansion two miles to the south of Bedale, is 

 the property of Mark Milbank, Esq. The house is a large, 

 handsome, stone building, with three fronts, of which that to the 

 south is the principal. Although the country hereabouts is not 

 rich, the house is rather pleasantly situated in a park-like 

 meadow, and near a pretty sheet of water. The Hamilton hills 

 are seen to the east, over a wide tract of level country, and on 

 the south, not far from the house, is the ruin of Snape Castle. 

 The west end of the mansion contains an elegant saloon, from 

 which a bow-window opens upon a wide gravel walk, leading 

 across the flower-garden to the pond : each side of this walk is 

 ornamented with a row of stone vases, mounted on dispropor- 

 tionately large pedestals. The flower-garden is capable of great 

 improvement ; indeed, in its present state, it scarcely deserves 

 that name, as there are very few plants in it, and those not of 

 any value. The kitchen-garden is only third-rate ; it, however, 

 contains several roomy hot-houses, in which there are some of 

 the finest young vines I have lately seen. Several of the grapes 

 sold by the late Mr. Daniel Money as new sorts have fruited 

 here ; and, having had an opportunity of examining the fruit, I 

 am thereby enabled to give an opinion of their merits. I under- 

 stand that the vines were procured direct from Money, therefore 

 it may be presumed that they are true to his names. The 



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