THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



NOVEMBER, 1842. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notices of some Gardens and Country Seats in Somerset- 

 shire, Devonshire, and Part of Cornwall. By the Conductor. 



(Continued from p. 494) 



Sept. 6. — Cowley House; Mrs. Wells. We find by a letter 

 from the gardener, Mr. Griffin, that in our previous account of 

 this place, we made some mistakes and omissions, occasioned by 

 the memorandum-book, in which we had made our notes being 

 unfortunately lost on our return to Exeter. The principal 

 mistake we made was calling the rivers which join in Mrs. 

 Wells's grounds the Exe and the Culm, whereas it should have 

 been the Exe and the Creedy. The conservatory has four 

 sashes in the roof which open, instead of one or two, as we had 

 stated ; and the gardener has only won prizes at Exeter and 

 Plymouth, and has never exhibited in London. We should 

 also have noticed that Mrs. Wells, who is a zealous patroness of 

 gardening, purchases all the rarest and most valuable house 

 plants that can be obtained, so that the collection of hothouse 

 and greenhouse plants at Cowley is one of the finest in the 

 county. Of this we had additional proof, when we attended 

 one of the Exeter Horticultural shows, on our return to that city, 

 Sept. 23d (reported in Gard. Chron. October 15. 1842), and 

 saw how much of the display there, which was splendid for the 

 season, depended on the plants from Cowley House. We have 

 mentioned house plants as being those in which Cowley House 

 is particularly rich; but there are also in the shrubberies a great 

 many of the choicest trees and shrubs, some of them fine spe- 

 cimens, the names and dimensions of which we took down at 

 the time, as we did of many of the house plants. Having lost 

 all these memorandums, we have written to the gardener, Mr. 

 Griffin, for an enumeration of such articles as he pointed out to 

 us, and of which he thought we took notes, and this enumeration 

 we now give. 



3d Ser.— 1842. XI. mm 



