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rioheist dark bronze-green foliage ; and the latter to the finest droop- 

 ing Norway spruce, equally multiplied in the scale of luxuriance 

 aad grace. They grow upon a rocky bank, overhangbgi a pool of 

 clear water, and look as if thoroughly at home, on the slope of a 

 hill-«de in Oregon. 



The arboretum walk forms a complete collection of all the 

 hardy trees that wiU grow out of doors at Chatswoiith, with space 

 for planting every new species as it may be introduced into Great 

 Britain. A fine effect is produced by grafting the weeping ash 

 into the top of a common ash tree with a tall trunk thirty feet high, 

 whence it falls on all sides more gracefully and prettily than when 

 graftied low ; ' a hint that I laid up for easy practice at hgme. 



A mile fiirther on, and you "reach the tower, on Hhe hill top, 

 where the eye commands the whole of Chatsworth valley, — such a 

 picture of palace and pleasurcrground, park and forest scenery as 

 can be found, perhaps, nowhere else in the circle of the planet. 



After a long exploration — ^after exhausting all the well-bred, ex- 

 pressions of enthusiasm in my vocabulary, and imagining that it was 

 impossible that landscape gardening, and embellishment, and park 

 soenely, and pleasure-ground decoration, could farther go — the 

 Duke reminded me that I had neither seen the kitchen gardens, the 

 ^eat peach-tree, ngr the famous new water lily — the Victoria Hec/ia; 

 and that Mr. Paxton, his able chef, would never forgive a neglect of so 

 important a feature in a place. As th« gardens where all these new 

 (jwonders lay, were quite on the opposite side of the park, we gladly 

 took to the carriage after our industrious morning's ramble. 



I shall not attempt to describe these large and complete fruit and 

 forcing gardens. But the peach-tree of Chatsworth has not, to my. 

 recollection, been described, though it deserves to >b0 as famous as 

 the grape-vine of Hampton Court. It is the more wonderful, be^ 

 cause, as you know, peach-trees do not grow in England in orchards 

 of five hundred acres, like those of the Reybolds, in Delaware ; but 

 are only seen upon walls, or under glass. Yet I assure you, our 

 friend E.'s eyes, accustonded as they are to peach blossoms by the 

 niile,*would have dilated at tlie sight of thisi monster trfee, occupy 

 ing a glass house by itself, and extending over a trellis — I should 

 say a hundred feet long. . I inquired about the product of this tree, 



