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There are a great many plants of the New Zealand flax at 

 Woodville, which would appear to have been planted with a 

 view to use. The keeping was good, but, we should say, not 

 founded on principle ; because in some places, where accident 

 had washed away the gravel from the edges of the walks, it was 

 not supplied, and the edges consequently were left high and raw. 

 The wall-trees, both here and at the Moult, were admirably 

 managed. Neither here nor at the Moult had the gardeners 

 ever heard of our name or of any of our works, or of any of the 

 gardening newspapers. We took memorandums of an agave 

 twenty-two years old, with leaves 7ft. long; a metrosideros, 10 ft. 

 high; myrtles, 10 ft. high; Phormium tenax, 6 ft. high, which, 

 after being twelve years planted, has flowered ; olives as stand- 

 ards, and one in the stable-yard upwards of 20 ft. high; a 

 splendid bush of rosemary, 7 ft> high ; one of the oranges with 

 a stem 18 in. round at a foot from the ground, and another 

 12 in. The walls here, at the Moult, at Mrs. Prideaux's, and 

 Lord Kinsale's adjoining, are chiefly of stone. 



Salcombe ; Mrs. Prideaux. There is an agave here coming 

 into flower with four stems. Every one of the leaves has been 

 injured at the points, and most of them along the edges; but, 

 whether this was done by accident or by design to throw the 

 plant into flower, we could not ascertain, the gardener not being 

 at home. 



Sept. 10. — Modbury to Fleet House, Kitley, Salt ram, and Ply- 

 mouth. Modbury is an ancient town of considerable size, without 

 either a good inn or a bookseller's shop. We were informed that 

 there was a subscription library for the better class ; but we did 

 not see the slightest evidence of intelligence or intellectual en- 

 joyment among the mass. 



Fleet House; J. Bulteel, Esq. The house is of considerable 

 antiquity and well placed, and it is undergoing great improvement 

 under the immediate direction of the proprietor, who is his own 

 architect, and is, perhaps, one of the cleverest amateur artists in 

 England. He is not only a painter, but a modeller and sculptor. 

 The doorways and fireplaces of the house had been originally 

 of granite, with torus mouldings in a style peculiar, as it ap- 

 peared to us, to those parts of Devonshire where granite was 

 used as the master stone-work of buildings. These granite door- 

 cases and chimney-pieces had in this house, as in Monadon House 

 which we saw in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, been covered 

 over with plaster, we suppose to give the house a more modern 

 air ; but Mr. Bulteel has removed all this, and is restoring these 

 leading features to their original grandeur and simplicity. The 

 ultimate effect will be unique. There are some large rooms 

 admirably managed both in their finishing and furniture, and a 

 long picture gallery, with a number of curious and valuable 



