SEPTEMBER 17, 1859.] 
very süccessful in raisin and other — fir 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND 
easy ascent towards the Xr of 
AGRICULTU 
RAL GAZETTF. 
ising Cedars a the Downs, at a | bexagon, the angles of the th * 
1000 Cedars of Lebanon, June 8, 1761, bào On the left hand side is situ- inated w i circular vL ing 
behalf of the Duke of Richmond. These 000 Ge rs | ated — | caer went a relinquished X3 pi jit 2 height of the 4 ounted with . 
were planted at five years old, in my er year, in | had rmed on the side of the hill; of co mes, which has an exceedingly good effect, addin 
March and April, 1761. I was at G wood in Sep- | si dor og — und is now lied by loft y fii nt a degree of dignity elegance to the whole mass, 
eir 176L e saw these Cedars in a thriving state. | walls, 2 the lowest pa art of the. chalk excavation a The south or entrance front pr resents a yr — — 
n r 20, 1762, I paid Mr. Clarke for | pond has been form 
another arge portio s 
n of Cedars fo: 
Th he Duke’ father 
r the Du ke of Rich- 
"m £d 
and silve er fish; ; the remaining r 
h f 1 n eT 
„ ng 
all ts : lofty hills — yr 
r he intends to clothe 
with a noble specimen of Lebanon Cedar; ihe jaherna } 
14 
whic ch, 
when in residence, the — of 3 Grace. the Le rå- 
woods; portions are alrea ady 
annually raises Por that ,Pur 
iy Mi. 
d 
EN 
Gooi 
" Lambert to the Linn. Soc. Transactions, vol x., 
also a MSS, memorandum o on the title e page | 
ler, “Gardeners’ Di m R md library at 
wood, to , but arn A the | 
loca cd th 
lant 
LES 
the * Arboretam et Fruticetum Britannicum,” vol. ar, 
the 
8 8 
les, and from the 
1 € 
n 98 pide mes 
ne o ad A ud age drives "there are 
pecim ^ ewhat idabl 
ke 
heir present position 
he park and near o 
— Au cede 
planted, — he 
pose infinite of | trees, 
rs, and Cedars.” (MSS. notes —— se 
little duriter et the asce: 
—— made Í 
room of ‘considerable size on 
an 
terspersed with numerous examples of fine 
northern end is the keeper’s house 
whole is in 
breeze. The other principal “fronts —— on either 
IN 
At the 
very Lee building, and in an = — a little to 
— ong aviary, in which a rous speci- 
of fore reign birds — pe — plumage, 
whilst white and green — — and silver phea- 
mge or con te 
I 
Vi 
hill, 
ti as * ‘Cairn 
tian Italian. 
t | and has an open portico E: 
A Rm. — 
the 
nclose 
floor ; 
sunken wa By special kindness of "the Deke of 
Richmond tiis beautiful EE - X e the dis- 
posal of th cm d ruri uch r orted t. le 
parties, xem spot 
t of Susse 
857 HEEN 
E 
1 had apparently SN its — at | 
he height y 5 feet, ard fi ich ! 
O other Jeaders ; the who 
2 
ers an area 
every 
of "Chichester Cat. 
ihe 
m 
shire, is obtain na delicions | 
clima te—the v ast i 3 ‘highly cultivate. and 
| well wooded plain beneath being studded on either 
— with — — dd aden hom „ and 
— gardens; th 
ip, 
bas | The ende 
“8 
lar 
e| Wi — — 
dressed fli 
06 feet each; that on the westein 
side was built by Sir William Cham li for the first 
ith a 
erec designs and u superin- 
tendence of Mr. James Wyatt, for the rhe Duke of 
Richmond about the year 1800. They built 
squared flints, the corners are without bond of sto ne 
— bricks, o the whole the very best work 
as n 
g centre surmount 
an 
The stables are situated at ri 
ront, and — 
— — 
t angles to the 
other ov^ unite in the 
| T handsome 
e, s erecte d : 
the 
ar 
quadran 
tn 
i brick facings. rance is on 
the south side, dee a noble “patient, merid on 
either side by Doric co! and s The 
eastern side ya Pere with ro and 
es are visit 1 fitted up, and 
contain sufficient “room for 54 horses. , Before the 
ints wi 
taf ak 
eerful co - 2 
inter nestle every n 
as well as pod 
n 
— pitara over all | 
vely sce 
beautiful flower garden—the design of which i s copied 
| from the ane of the large library. It is well filled 
with the usual description on of bedding planta, PM 
E 
oble rll in aes 
ie the we l-clothed islands of Y Taning and Thorney, i in| 
garden is bounded. on the Pr c by the long !ine of 
n the left by a lof y Holly 
other examples 
red tune the park 
r dark 
s | — headlands of the 
- | tide form — 
e — of the sout athe sun; em these ‘the 
sle Wiehe + 
in a ee line from e centre of the hexagon, of 
unda ary. ing onwards 
the whole is — Brg p" the blue 
waters of the English Channel, ve into sky, and 
4 ecided and 
M nd groups of 
e trees with which. ‘this. nolle pak and grou unds 
are » richly adorned. Sed late year 
A 
he waves, Mery spr eading 2 of snow.“ 
pang | gard 
Within this ine closure there i is a shell ri of archi- 
The other side is separa! rated fi n the 1 road 
and the park by a substantial iron fen The 
garden of the eastern front is — 4 on the 
orth by a range of conservatories, and by a lofty 
ge iron fence as on the tern side. This 
en is laid out in simple figures of con ble size, 
with ample ee s in onera 
pace between, an — 
ets of different for 
many D ] raised basket and character, . 
have also been plan prepared ground on well- — an alcove or recess is 15 feet 6 6 inches, its and all was exceedingly A n — * — 
chosen spots, where bur are sheltered and pro- 2 is 10 "didam and od ps ot E s. plants, amd in the st style of keeping and 
tected by fencing and nurse EM: they ie thriv- | of the coved ceiling is nearly 11 fee manage ment, ` 
ing well, and will soon of grandeur; | corni ths a ell ae thos of the. e interior 
their i ours — NU r covered with erehict es are of purely Grecian cha fo yh 
foliage of a pale green on will present a very — — is covered | iads of in th 
— contrast to the other trees, Me of a deci- ours and sizes, and 1 
duous or evergreen — cter. On the left of the él pen mna — ere geometrie lines, but walls of many of 
principal approach road, and immedia kel] in front of|also to form pane M of — n — wa ya 
t he mansion, there i isa 15 bl grou f Cork t which wreaths, and cornucopias L 1 
t E t ha 10 t let exquisitely formed of the same beautiful mate- | historical interest and ioc ach 
6 inch ies, and the diameter of the space ered with | rial, and conferring a certain degree of taste and fin: * the sou 35 n in width, and I 15 
ts branches is 60 feet, thus nri in size the ae on the whole a ent. niches are filled i Corinthian alen of 
aoe Cork trees of Spain. One of these trees had | mirrors, and the — — s reri rin a cm shat f 
n hed up the trunk e more feet on the| marble with panelling o „ th 
formation of the road; it however got into ill health. was executed previously to the year 1750 by the diame! m ona ital of bona LES — 
The ground has since been removed from the bole, and delicate hands of Sarah the nd —— — P Prof ar the 
the he tree stands » it werein a well; the foliage again | mond 2 — Se — ng in Royal ae Light ht Intr "Mts of 
8 
— It is an interestin „the dark ethe lled, and one s Gr race is colon tlre 
luxuriant foliage —— finely ly with the frosted that the silent hand of Time on | Majesty ‘William p de Mai" ta "t ke "M "thee apte of 
— — the swellings and rifts of the deeply | this =< * "^ — — structure; From inscription “Champ e Mai," taken iY 
-— ascends at more rapidly, i ” "i 
The principal approach is that from Chichester, which | i ‘clot "v vas either side w T — mia native x e wood 2 its m — Ee dd 2 m 
ill on whi 
3 . a 3 ee — — C A inte — E ane va eomm, t Y the embankments | | amongst m portraits of Robert Bruce and 
This ia cl é ff as it is which ove cae — 25 reall 
profuse way in which all about is gaily deccrated with | have been formed a se mtr ia ee = a eet nu length, 94 feet. in 
beautiful fowerin Thi are two other|is of the — ben xni kind, dens is kept i in the — of the same " i , f the form 
hes from 115 5 and tern sides res perfect order. e grand ‘stand w as built for the = — 18 feet | in height. — hel — 
tively, the gates and lodg which are o — — — nt Duke of Richmond we the e year 1830, acit room ar e of seng zliola, resembling polis 
and enlivened chara —— the other. a very beautiful an S — e erection ca $ end, in which are four busts by 
imt a de - e 8 ‘they — . ——— . 70 pend — "The — of ¢ the latter room are hung 
souther 
n the right 
d turfed — it is 120 fe et long, 
wide, and 50 e ve The refreshment rooms a 
r fl be eautiful | Doric colon- 
oor; a 
"den 
— ered o 
fand, a considerable eng ie length of of its — by a line 
n the other 
nd with am 
| the three 
| Nollekens. 
ith amber-coloured i striped, the curtains of 
s, sofas, chairs, &c., are 2 Soe 
and the woodwork ai nd co 
e windows, atem 
os Din Mon rodueing an 
which screens ue the itches arden. | rinci — as ped as the roof are formed of a series | are gilt, producing 
From this —— an i P view is obtained, not of na d benches, from miia without ed dent E: i: character, 4 2 are fone Be 
only of the park itself and its highly varied sur- struction the most perfect view of the whole course is pr 2 
face, y ed as i masses|obtained. Near he St. e's Wit, a conical | marble — 
and noble forms of statel ; of the | Down, the summit of which is some 700 feet above the | gilt, the whole 
whole frontage of the magn mansion, which is | level of d is surmounted by € circular cn i : 
si in the very lo position in the park, in encampment of unknown date. It has a deep aii Chi es I., the collar a 
front: of which there is a wide expanse of beauti with an inner and outer vallum, raised to the height Ib wo superb c 
turf, which since I last it had very much | several feet, and inclosing an area of something m i — labra e f. whi cha are 5 
im have seen the Duke of Richmond, with | 5 aeres in extent. ere are also numerous barrows or | y i bes elegant semen, the re wall w » 
his distinguished visitors on a * morning," | tumuli to be met with on the rang ee 8 dads covered with $0 2 . vag 11 pucr z 
inspecting his — flock of Southdown ewes well as the — ancient British vi [ehe he old smasters. ae so a Rn 
this n — hat th the dried pits and excavations of which Se portrait of * present mr * 
reachin to their knees. better management | period, ves or Dr by 9i Lawren 1 "i 
hassi dide mo aed and — — €: of Mr. Clark, | Biforded shelter and habitation to some primitive race. — * the smallest 3 a well — yos 
the cem end — = own an operation | e mansion stands in x ition i án-j 6 of books, especially rich in volumes of prints, 
whioh not only produces — d suitable per and, bend , in alm descen isst works, and foreign literature ; ‘they d 
— bnt — — "the quality of the pas- | situation in the p park—a c "ead. level. ZH 5 a "noble pile on` open shelves, with i a M — 
pts F t n access 
tlie d ipu; es 2 d bearing to the left is led by an | classic style. It forms four sides of an — gallery to obtai 
