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o, Vinery and plant stove. 



p p p, Rock-walk, giving a general view of the rockwork garden. 



q q, Sfc, Beds of prepared earth, raised above the surface, and supported by 

 large blocks of stone, forming an irregular rocky margin to each bed. 



r, A well, or basin, supplied by a spring, and furnishing abundance of water 

 for watering the plants. 



r s, Direction of an excavation of 8 or 10 feet, forming an irregular precipice 

 on the side next the house, with a bottom sloping in the opposite direction, 

 from which all the rock was obtained for paving the rocky walk, and enclosing 

 the raised beds. In the views from the windows of the house, none of this 

 rockwork appears ; the ground at t t t being sufficiently high to carry the 

 eye over it to u. The plants in the rocky beds are partly half-hardy ; such 

 as fuchsias, myrtles, and other shrubs generally planted against conservative 

 walls; magnolias ; a fine collection of azaleas and rhododendrons, particu- 

 larly on the rocky precipices ; Berberis, Mahomw, Garrya, and, in short, 

 all the finer shrubs that are rather tender, and some of the more rare trees. 

 There are also some fine specimens of perfectly hardy shrubs ; such as of 

 Cotoneaster UVa-ursi and Juniperus (Sabina repens : the latter covers an 

 entire bed.* Among the more rare trees was one of Pinus sinensis, raised 

 by Mr. Wells from seeds imported from China in 1829, and which had at- 

 tained the height of 16 ft., and produced cones, before it was killed by the 

 severe winter of 1837-8. (See Arb. Brit., p. 2264.) Araucaria imbricata 

 is here quite hardy ; and Picea Webbiana has attained a considerable size, 

 though much injured by the same winter. There are also remarkably fine 

 specimens of ^bies Douglas/, and of various other species of pines and 

 firs. There are some remarkably fine young cedars, which, in 1837, when 

 measured for the Arboretum Britannicum, were from 36 ft. to 52 ft. in height. 

 One of these, which had been raised from seed exactly twenty years before, 

 the cone having been purchased in a London seed-shop in 1816, was, in 

 1836, 36 ft. high, and the girt of the trunk, at 3 ft. from the ground, was 

 4 ft. 6 in. Another, 27 years planted, is 52 ft. high, with a trunk of 5 ft. 

 6 in. in circumference at 3 ft. from the ground. (See Arb. Brit., vol. iv. 

 p. 2406.) Among the herbaceous plants are most of the Californian an- 

 nuals and heartseases, and all the finer half-hardy plants, such as petunias, 

 lobelias, &c., and a great variety of pelargoniums. In short, if the reader 

 imagine all the plants introduced into this country that it is desirable to 

 cultivate in a flower-garden, or against a conservative wall, and in a select 

 shrubbery, he will form a good general idea of what are planted on the rocky 

 lawn at Redleaf. 



v, Engine-house, fixed over a pond, for throwing up water to the house. 



w w, Wood, in which many species of exotic trees and shrubs are introduced 

 among the native kinds. 



x x, Wire fence, which separates the mown lawn from the pasture lawn. 



y, Pasture lawn ; the surface of which is beautifully undulated, and finely 

 varied by groups of oaks, thorns, and other trees. The thorns are, in some 

 instances, of great age, and are often covered with a profusion of mistletoe, 

 which in the winter season gives them the appearance of evergreen trees, and 

 in spring interferes with that general covering of blossom, which, from its 

 uniformity and whiteness, sometimes gives a large hawthorn the appearance 

 of an immense cauliflower, or gives a spotty appearance to the landscape. 

 We may observe, here, that there are various scarlet thorns distributed 

 through these grounds ; that two of them, in front of the Penshurst Lodge, 

 are of an intensely dark red; and that others, which are seedlings of these, 

 present different shades of colour, some being only a pale pink. 



* When Douglas, the botanical collector, visited Redleaf, and saw this ju- 

 niper, he uttered an exclamation of delight, and threw himself down upon it, 

 observing that he had slept many a night on such a bed. 



