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is lost to the proprietor and the country. This will be the case till some 

 mode of planting is adopted, by which low trees shall be placed by them- 

 selves, or at least only along with large shrubs. The greater part of the 

 species and varieties which may be procured in British nurseries remain, in 

 the meantime, unknown to the possessors of our country seats, and nur- 

 serymen do not meet with that encouragement which they ought, for the 

 trouble of having collected them together, and of propagating them for sale. 

 We have much more to say respecting this place, and the exquisite taste 

 and skill of its proprietor, which we reserve till we shall have had an op- 

 portunity of paying another visit. 



The order and keeping of the lawn and flower-beds and borders were of 

 the highest and most refined kind, which produces the more effect, when 

 contrasted with a comparatively wild part of the shrubbery bordering a distant 

 walk, in which furze and broom, and native plants, are springing up lux- 

 uriantly among single specimens of low trees, especially of Crataegus, Pyrus, 

 Viburnum, and large-growing shrubs, with some of the more rare pines and 

 firs, such as Pinus Sab'midna, P. Coulter^ P. ponderosa, Tfbies Douglas/, 

 &c. Much may be done in this way where there is abundance of space, 

 and the ground is naturally poor, and covered with heath and other plants 

 which inhabit poor soils, at very little expense beyond that of first planting. 

 In matters of this kind, Mr. Jenkinson's taste is most judicious, and it is 

 much to be wished that gentlemen of large estates could be imbued with it. 

 A hundred acres planted in this way would be a forest or arboretum of great 

 beauty and interest. Let it only be considered that there are between 70 

 and 80 kinds of Crataegus alone that are adapted for such a purpose. 



Wimbledon House ; Mrs. Marryatt. — We never saw this place in so much 

 beauty as it now appears, and particularly the flower-garden. Some over- 

 grown beds of rhododendrons, azaleas, &c, which overpowered the effect of 

 the small flower-beds, destroyed the harmony of the masses, and made the 

 garden appear smaller than it really is, have been removed. The straight elm 

 walk, which leads from the old green-house near the mansion to the flower- 

 garden, used to be buttoned with Chinese flower-pots set on the turf; but 

 these pots have now had tiles placed under them as plinths, and the effect is 

 much more satisfactory, by giving stability and a greater appearance of adapt- 

 ation. A basement to the plinths, of gravel, connected with the walk, or the 

 plinth brought close to the edge of the walk, is still wanted to render the effect 

 completely architectural. Having described this place in great detail in our 

 Suburban Gardener, we shall only repeat here our expression of satisfaction 

 at the high order and keeping in which we found every thing, greatly to the 

 credit of Mr. Redding, the gardener and general manager, and of his excellent 

 mistress. 



The Cottage of H. B. Ker, Esq., in Park Road, Regent's Park. — In this 

 dwelling the walls and ceiling of a dining-room have been lately painted in the 

 Pompeian style by the celebrated artist Eastlake. The sides of the room 

 are divided into two parts ; the one is painted in vertical panels, which reach 

 to within 2 ft. of the ceiling, and these 2 ft. form a sort of frieze, which is to 

 be considered as representing an architectural landscape seen over the vertical 

 panels which form the sides of the room. The vertical panels contain figures 

 representing the chase and capture of the hares and birds supposed to be 

 caught for dinner, and the preparation of the different fruits for the dessert. 

 The landscape of the frieze consists of columns and other architectural forms, 

 representing rather the foreground of the landscape than the landscape itself. 

 No animals, figures, or forms, with one or two exceptions, are introduced, 

 of which there is not a precedent in the figures collected from the ruins of 

 Pompeii. The result of the whole is interesting, as carrying the mind back to 

 the style of decorating rooms adopted by the most civilised people of the world 

 2000 years ago. 



In our next, we shall have something to say on certain gardens in Stafford- 

 shire and Derbyshire, having just returned from a professional visit to the 



