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dimensions of a number of large trees, and some interesting in- 

 formation on planting and agriculture generally. It is here found 

 that, when the larch is planted along with the Scotch fir in mixed 

 masses, the timber of the former becomes invariably rotten at the 

 heart, even when the trees are only 20 or 30 years old ; while 

 on the same soil, planted in masses by itself, the larch produces 

 perfectly sound timber. This is confirmatory of the experience 

 of Mr. Gorrie in Scotland, and it seems also in favour of the 

 excrementitious theory. 



The oak woods, or rather groves, on this estate, contain a 

 greater number of large well-grown trees than we ever saw to- 

 gether before. Many of them are 100 ft. high, with clean 

 trunks of nearly uniform thickness for half or two thirds of their 

 height, the diameter of these trees varying from 3 ft. to 6 ft., at 

 4 ft. from the ground. They are all, without a single exception, 

 Quercus sessiliflora ; there scarcely being a single plant of 

 Quercus pedunculata in the park, or for a mile round it, either 

 young or old. A great many single trees, so arranged as at a 

 distance to combine into groups and masses, have been planted 

 under the immediate inspection of Sir John Trevelyan, who has 

 an excellent taste in landscape ; as the disposition of the trees 

 alluded to, and the drives cut through woods on the sides of 

 steep hills, and the terrace roads, as they may be called, through 

 open fields on hill sides, abundantly prove. 



There is an admirable kitchen-garden here, with the walls 

 covered with the very best kinds of peaches, nectarines, and 

 pears, all in fine order, while the fig ripens as a standard. We 

 observed a very excellent kind of cabbage, which we were in- 

 formed, by the gardener, Mr. Elworthy, was raised between 

 the Paington and Cornish cabbages, and which is called the 

 Nettlecombe cabbage. We brought away some seeds, thinking 

 it might be a desirable cabbage for a cottager, and we shall 

 leave them with Mr. Charlwood and Mr. Carter, Holborn, for 

 distribution in small quantities to whoever may apply for them. 

 We have also given the same parties a portion of the true 

 Paington cabbage seed procured at Paington, and a portion of 

 the true Cornish procured at Plymouth, for the same purposel 

 The Cornish cabbages which we have seen in the gardens in 

 Devonshire are very different from those which we have seen 

 called by this name in other parts of England, and very superior. 



The pleasure-grounds, and the flower-garden at the house, are 

 in excellent order. In the pleasure-ground there is an old 

 stone quarry, the bottom of which has been levelled, and the 

 side planted with half-hardy plants, including several plants of 

 Capparis spinosa ; which will, doubtless, at some future time, 

 supply the family with capers, as the lemon trees on the garden 

 walls in this part of the country do with lemons. The gardener' 



