£ 2,50 HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



The greenhouse is quite in the old style: it is richly 

 ornamented in front, and the interior is much more com- 

 modious for ladies and gentlemen than for plants. The 

 inside of the walls has been painted with landscape-scenes 

 in a kind of fresco, and the floor is laid with imitation mo- 

 saic work. The house measures about fifty feet in length ; 

 and it has two antichambers for company, each twenty feet 

 long. 



Adjoining the garden is an inclosed menagerie for va- 

 rious sorts of animals, and in particular for birds. At pre- 

 sent the whole is in disrepair, and untenanted. Close by 

 is a fish-pond lined with masonry, and with flights of steps 

 descending to the water in every direction. Here, then, 

 we were gratified at once with the view of specimens of 

 the vivarium, the votary and the piscina of the 17th cen- 

 tury. 



The fruit-garden is immediately connected with the orna- 

 mental grounds. There is here a wall with numerous curved 

 recesses, intended for the training of the more tender fruit- 

 trees. At present, this wall is wholly occupied by apricot- 

 trees ; one being placed in the centre of each curve. The 

 curves having a radius of four feet and a half only, are evi- 

 dently too small to afford protection to such trees from sweep- 

 ing blasts. Probably they had originally been appropriated 

 to grape-vines. In this garden there is likewise a wooden wall, 

 to which the branches of some aged vines arc trained. These, 

 we were told, often yield large crops; but, this season, 

 the bunches are scanty, and are so backward that we should 

 think they can scared v ripen before winter. Some good 

 specimens of dwarf apple-trees appeared, trained in the 

 arbornijn style; these " leafy punch-bo wis," as they have 

 not unaptly been termed, were here quite in character. 

 We remarked ;< bed of celeriac seedling-plants, which 



