growth. Several noble forest trees, standing here and there, contribute their stately and picturesque 

 effect to a scene full of ancestral associations, and as beautiful as it is imposing. 



The Vineries and other houses of a similar description are situated in the kitchen garden, which is 

 separated from the pleasure grounds by a brick wall twelve feet high, and trained with numerous hardy 

 fruit trees. The entrance gates are of iron, highly ornamented, and surmounted by the letter W. The 

 garden is of an oblong form, about two acres and a half in extent, and divided into four compartments, 

 or flats, by transverse brick walls, one of which constitutes the base of a ran^e of buildings, with 

 a frontage of three hundred feet, erected by the present Marquis of Westminster, for the cultivation of 

 grapes, pines, and other fruits, as well as plants. The central part is distinctive, and built on a 

 simple but excellent plan. It is devoted chiefly to Orchidese, which are in a remarkably healthy and 

 vigorous condition, and form a collection beautifully rich and diversified. Mr Collinson, who has most 

 ably and successfully superintended this department of the estate, we believe, upwards of twenty-four 

 years, pays much attention to the cultivation of plants of that order, also to the growing of pines, an 

 extensive range of pine-pits being to the rear of these buildings, where some excellent specimens are 

 annually produced. 



We cannot complete our brief notice of this highly interesting and magnificent place without referring 

 to the Grosvenor Gateway, that stands at the head, three miles distant, of the principal approach to the 

 Hall. It occupies the site of an old manorial residence, called Overleigh Hall, and is a copy of St 

 Augustine's Gate at Canterbury. There are few specimens of Gothic architecture more beautiful than 

 this, and being built of a light-coloured description of freestone, enriched with numerous heraldic shields, 

 and the family arms carved in bold relief over the arch, it is a commanding and, from its origin and 

 the historical reminiscences of its site, a worthy introduction to what has been truly and appropriately 

 called the " Palace on the Dee." 



