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to form the picture. The gilding of the statuary, the elaborate work 

 of the baskets surrounding some cherished novelty, the feathered 

 declivity of the embankments, the terraces and slopes, the plains and 

 the mounts — all exhibit an artistic skill fascinating in the extreme. 

 What is this surrounded with such beautiful wickerwork ? " Libo- 

 cedrus chilensis, a great acquisition." — It looks like a beautiful sil- 

 ver Thuja. " yes ; you may call it Thuja chilicnsis" There is 

 another exquisite plant, " That is Biota aurea ;" Ah ! very like a 

 Thuja, too ? " Yes, Thuja aurea." There, you see, I have got 

 fixed in a lybranth of names and art. What peculiar shaped pine 

 is that ? " A Douglas Fir* 5 * Ah, } T ou have been using the knife on 

 it ? " Yes ; and on many others freely. I exploded the idea that 

 evergreens will not bear pruning ; do it at the proper time, and ju- 

 diciously, they are with few exceptions, perfectly under control." I 

 thought Douglas fir an exception, and was only handsome from seed? 

 * Of all the magnificent specimens on the place there are only about 

 half a dozen seedlings !" Make a note of that. 



From the east front of the house the east avenue extends ten 

 miles in a straight uninterrupted view, which is not used as an en- 

 trance but merely as a prospect ; a walk of about thirty feet wide 

 extents half a mile, or as far as the ha-ha ; within this space the 

 majestic horse chestnut has been replaced by Araucaria imbricata, 

 Cryptomeria japonica, Taxodium sempervirens, Deodars, Cedars of 

 Lebanon, and Picea pinsapo, disposed with a gracefully waved out- 

 line. As you enter this amazing vista you have on your right and 

 lefc specimens of Picea nobilis, each ten feet high, and about the 

 largest in England, and grown from cuttings planted when three 

 inches high, of the most symmetrical form and without a fault, sur- 

 passing in beauty the far-famed Araucaria excelsa. Onward are 

 beautiful trees of Araucaria imbricata, thirty feet high, planted on 

 mounds, and clothed to the bottom with their distinct and unique 

 foliage and habit. These trees have been sixteen years planted, so 

 that their average growth has b^en nearly two [eet. Next came 

 the Cryptomeria, with its graceful airy form and pendulous branch- 

 lets contrasting with the stiff habit and upright mean of the arau- 

 caria. How grand ! how expansive — what will it attain ? — Shall I 

 see it again in twenty years? To the left of this prospect and en- 



