HORNBEAM TREE. 



ITS 



This delightful author occasionally indulges in such 

 eloquent raptures in speaking of the works of nature, 

 that it were difficult to forbear quoting. 



" That admirable espalier hedge in the long middle 

 walk of the Luxembourg Garden at Paris, than which 

 there is nothing more graceful, is planted of this tree ; and 

 so is that cradle or close walk, with that perplexed canopy, 

 which lately covered the seat in his ^lajesty's garden at 

 Hampton Court, and as now I hear, they are planted in 

 perfection at New Park, the delicious villa of the noble 

 Earl of Rochester, belonging once to a near kinsman of 

 mine, who parted v- ith it to King Charles the First, of 

 blessed memory. An oblong square palisaded with this 

 plant or the Flemish ornus, as is that I am going to de- 

 scribe, and may be seen in that inexhaustible magazine 

 at Brompton Park (cultivated by those two industrious 

 fellow gardeners, Mr. London and Mr. Wise), affords 

 such an umhraculum Jrondium, the most natural proper 

 station and convenience for the protection of our orange 

 trees, mp-tles, and other rare perennials and exotics, from 

 the scorching darts of the sun, and heat of summer : they 

 are so ranged and disposed as to adorn a noble area of 

 a most magnificent Paradisian dining-room, to the top of 

 hortulan pomp and bliss, superior to all the artificial fur- 

 niture of the greatest prince's court. Here are the Indian 

 narcissus, tuberoses, Japan hhes, jasmines, jonquils, peri- 

 climena, roses, carnations, with all the pride of the par- 

 terre ; intermixt between the tree cases, flowering vases, 

 busts, and statues, entertain the eye, and breathe their 

 redolent odours and perfumes to the smell. The golden 

 fruit, the apples of the Hesperides, together with the 

 delicious ananas, gratify the taste, while the cheerful 

 ditties of canorous birds, recording their innocent amours 



