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think, not have answered public expectation ; because there 

 could not have been any sufficiently lengthened perspective to 

 give the idea of interior grandeur. A parallelogram would not 

 have been so attractive externally, but would have been far 

 more interesting within, and executed at much less expense: 

 witness the conservatory which connects the house with the 

 armoury at Alton Towers. 



The Swiss Gardens at Shoreham have been extended and im- 

 proved, and they exhibit a very respectable assemblage of roses 

 and showy flowers. We wish there had been a few more shrubs 

 of different kinds, with labels exhibiting their names. Were 

 only one shrub or tree of a kind, or even two, introduced in 

 these gardens, they might contain a very tolerable arboretum ; 

 nor would this interfere with any of the uses or applications of 

 any part of the garden. For example, there are, we should 

 think, twenty or thirty plants of common willow on the banks 

 of the water ; and twice as many creepers on the walls, compris- 

 ing only two or three species : but both willows and creepers 

 might be of as many different species or varieties as there are 

 plants. However, it is a most gratifying circumstance to observe 

 the improvement that has taken place in these gardens since we 

 last saw them in 1838 ; and their proprietor deserves the highest 

 credit for forming them and keeping them up, as his object has 

 evidently been more the accommodation of the public than his 

 own emolument. 



Worthing. — There are a number of very neat villas here, with 

 the grounds more highly kept than is to be seen in most 

 places ; not excepting the vicinity of the metropolis. One of 

 the handsomest is Tudor Cottage, which appears to have been 

 formed within these two or three years. In the gardens of the 

 town, close on shore, we found the red and white valerian form- 

 ing conspicuous ornaments. 



Tarring. — In the fig orchard, thirty-seven large trees were 

 destroyed, or severely injured, by the winter of 1837-8 ; but a 

 number of young trees have been since planted, and these and 

 the remaining old ones are covered with a more than usually 

 heavy crop of fruit. We found the Brompton stocks here 

 remarkably strong ; and a spot in the garden was pointed out 

 to us, in which whatever kind of stock, whether red, purple, or 

 white, is planted, becomes vai'iegated. 



La?icing, the seat of James Lloyd, Esq., is a beautifully 

 situated small place, with the gardens and pleasure-ground kept 

 in excellent order by the gardener, Mr. Kidd. There is a fine 

 specimen of O'rnus europee v a; and a large plant of the rose 

 acacia, the branches of which are separately supported by stakes 

 in the star manner, recommended in the Arboretum Britannicum 

 (vol. ii. p. 628.), so that the tree forms a large hemispherical 



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