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it is comparatively warm. One rather inconvenient arrangement 

 is, that the public road must be crossed in passing from the 

 mansion to the gardens, to which a walk, or rather two walks 

 separated by a row of nut trees, leads through an orchard. The 

 kitchen-o-arden is small, but well situated, declining gently to the 

 south. Against the north wall there are two vineries, in which 

 the vines have formerly been spread under the whole of the 

 roof, but it is the intention of Mr. Weatherston (the very in- 

 telligent gardener) in future to adopt, as far as practicable, the 

 method described several years since by Mr. Mearns, and which 

 may be termed the successional system. By this method it is 

 expected to obtain finer fruit, and also to admit more light into 

 the interior of the house. Black currant trees, a novelty in the 

 forcing department, have recently been planted in the earliest 

 house, to be trained up the back wall. 



At the bottom of the kitchen-garden, on the south side, are 

 the pleasure-grounds, in a low and damp situation close to the 

 river Lugg, besides which there are several small streams and a 

 pond in the grounds. Close to the entrance from the kitchen- 

 garden there are two hot-houses ; the one a peach-house, the other 

 a singular structure in which plants are kept. The chief part 

 devoted to flowers is a very pretty group of beds directly in front 

 of, but on a lower level than, the peach and green houses. These 

 beds have lately been formed by Mr. Weatherston, who, as I 

 am informed, has greatly improved the whole of the place. There 

 is one great drawback, however, to the beauty of this little spot, 

 and that is, some lanky poplars which stick themselves up be- 

 tween those beds and the houses, only a few yards from the 

 front of the latter Besides their ungainly appearance, these 

 trees are injurious by shading the houses, and their roots must 

 likewise impoverish the border of the peach-house. 



A piece of ground close to the river side is now in the course 

 of preparation for a fruit-garden ; it is, however, by no means 

 well adapted for such a purpose, being, from its low and damp 

 locality, peculiarly liable to be affected by that greatest imperfec- 

 tion of our climate, the late spring frosts, which are invariably 

 much more injurious in moist than in high and dry situations. 



Sir Harford, with great liberality, grants permission to the in- 

 habitants of the town to walk in his grounds, and I believe his 

 kindness is never abused. 



Herefordshire, Jan, 20. 1840. 



Art. II. Postscript to Mr. Herbert's Article on Cytisus AdoLmx in 

 p. 289. By the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, D.C.L., F.H.S., &c. 



Having written to you hastily on the subject of the Cytisus 

 Adam/, or purple laburnum, and kept no copy of what I wrote, 



