548 Notices of some Gardens and Country Seats. 



altars and urns, is so covered with evergreens, that it is not 

 even mentioned in the guide-book. The only garden worth 

 notice is what is called the Italian garden, though there is 

 nothing Italian in it but the orange trees and a few white painted 

 leaden statues ; the former disfigured by the ugly unarchitectural 

 tubs, and the latter, with the exception of a few on the parapets of 

 a flight of steps, unartistically placed. We were sorry to see some 

 alterations going on at the house, the object of which, as it 

 appeared to us, was to change the entrance from the back, where 

 it is at present, to the front, where it will display the finest views 

 from the place before entering the house. Among the plants we 

 noted down were, orange trees in tubs with stems 13 ft. high and 

 12 in. in diameter at the surface of the tub, the heads also being 

 12 ft. in diameter; various magnolias, from 30 to 36 ft. high; 

 numerous cork trees, 50 ft. 4iigh ; many immense ilexes, some 

 100 ft. high ; remarkable red cedars, one with a trunk 5 ft. in 

 diameter; pittosporum. 6 ft. high and 6 ft. in diameter; hy- 

 drangeas, 12 ft. high; Chinese privets, 14 ft. high; eriobotrya, 

 12ft. high; catalpa, with a trunk 2 ft. in diameter; several 

 Portugal laurels above 30 ft. high, with clean erect trunks 8 ft. 

 high and 2 ft. in diameter, splendid trees ; arbutus, 40 feet high ; 

 ^4 v bies Douglass, 20 ft. high; Chimonanthus fragrans, 12ft. high 

 and 16 ft. in diameter. There is said to be a large Bermudan 

 cedar here, but that we do not recollect to have seen. 



Sept. 1 4. — Plymouth to Saltash, Trematon Castle, Pentillie 

 Castle, and Callington. We found the Globe Inn at Plymouth an 

 excellent house, centrally situated for the nurseries and the post- 

 office, with a piano in the sitting-room, and some books, but not 

 enough. Every inn ought to have the history and description 

 of the town in which it is situated, if there is one ; and, next, 

 county descriptions and histories, with a copy of Shakespeare. 

 If every traveller were to say as much at inns about books as 

 we generally do, every inn would soon have a library. All who 

 think this desirable should do as we do. It can be no great 

 hardship for the smallest inn or public-house to take in Cham- 

 bers s Journal, or the Penny Magazine. 



Trematon Castle; B. Tucker, Esq. This might be a fine 

 place, for there are some well defined portions of the castle still 

 remaining; but it is ruined by indiscriminate planting. 



Pentillie Castle ; J. T. Coryton, Esq. A splendid place by 

 nature, and next in our opinion to Mount Edgecumbe. The 

 house is particularly well situated, and entered in a proper 

 manner, so as just to give an idea that a view of something grand 

 and striking may be obtained from the drawingroom windows, 

 but not to show it till there. There are some extensive walks 

 well laid out under the direction of the late Mrs. Coryton, who, 

 the gardener informed us, was a lady of great taste and skill in 



