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that Mr. Mason coincides in opinion with us, viz., that the different scenes 

 require to he united and harmonised, as hinted at in our volume for 1829, 

 p. 583. The third Duke of Richmond was one of the greatest planters of 

 his time, and the interest which any person fond of trees must feel in exa- 

 mining the plantations at (Goodwood is intense. It is singular, that of the 

 thousand, or probably thousands, of cedars of Lebanon, planted by the Duke 

 of Richmond in 1761, only 139 were remaining in 1837, when His Grace the 

 present duke kindly sent us an account of them for the Arboretum Britan- 

 nicum (see vol. iv. p. 2414.). These cedars, Collinson informs us, were raised 

 by John Clarke, a butcher at Barnes ; and he paid 79/. 6s. for them, on behalf 

 of the Duke of Richmond. But these do not include the whole of the 

 cedars which the duke planted ; for Mr. Collinson has a second entry in his 

 copy of Miller's Dictionary ; viz., " October 20. 1762, I paid Mr. Clarke for 

 another large portion of cedars for the Duke of Richmond ;" and he informs us, 

 besides, that the duke annually raised " infinite numbers of pines, firs, and 

 cedars." Mr. Collinson adds, " the duke's father was a great planter, but 

 the young duke much exceeds him ; for he intends to clothe all the lofty 

 naked hills above him with evergreen woods, &c." (Arb. Brit., ibid.) We do 

 hope that the present duke will follow up the intention of his noble ancestor ; 

 not only in planting on a large scale, but in introducing in the pleasure-grounds, 

 and in the park near the house, all the hardy trees and shrubs that have been 

 brought into this country since 1760, and all that have been before introduced 

 and planted at Goodwood, but which are now lost. In short, we should like 

 to see the collection made up to the present time ; and that not only by a 

 single plant of each species or variety, but by dozens of the more ornamental 

 and vigorous-growing kinds, such as the thorns, the oaks, the acers, &c. ; but, 

 above all things, we should like to see the present duke as anxious to plant 

 the deodar cedar, as his ancestor was to plant the cedar of Lebanon ; and 

 to cover the hills, or, at all events, to distribute through the park, that noble 

 tree, the Araucaria imbricata, of which there is now abundance of plants in 

 the country. It will, however, be of little use planting these trees, unless 

 much more care and trouble be taken in preparing the soil, than appears to 

 have been done in planting the cedars of Lebanon ; otherwise, we cannot 

 conceive how so large a portion of them should have been lost in less than a 

 century. We would have every pit into which a plant is introduced prepared 

 in the manner indicated in Vol. XIII. p. 146. par. 3. ; and we would answer, in 

 that case, for the cedars, both of Lebanon and deodar, growing at the 

 average rate of from 18 in. to 2 ft. a year, for at least twenty years in succes- 

 sion. It has never yet been shown what may be done on a large scale, by 

 preparing pits in the manner described. Would we could hope that this 

 might be tried at Goodwood t 



The house is, in many respects, a noble building, and we have done justice 

 to some of its finest features in the volume already referred to ; but the scat- 

 tered mass wants a Barry or a Lamb, to produce what we may call a vertical 

 point ; a tower, which would complete the pyramid, and form a feature in the 

 general view. It wants, also, a system of terraces and Italian gardens, to 

 unite it with the English garden and general scenery. Few places, indeed, 

 afford a finer opportunity for displaying terraces and Italian gardens than 

 Goodwood ; and we know of no place that would be so much improved by 

 them . 



Goodwood being a show place, we consider ourselves at liberty to make 

 these observations, though they must be considered as merely the record of the 

 general impressions left on our mind after two rapid visits, one in 1829, and 

 the other in 1833. Mr. Mason's book will be of great use, as observed in 

 the preface, to the " many visiters and strangers to whom Goodwood and its 

 collection of works of art are at all times open." 



