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beautiful vale on the right, and Malvern, with its nu¬ 
merous and extended jagged summits, very majestically 
bounds the horizon ; blackberries, the fruit of the 
(rubus fruticosus,) a very great hit, acorns rather abun¬ 
dant, walnuts the same, orchards with all kinds of fruit 
trees; hedges full of timber and particularly very fine 
elm; soil, deep rich light light loam; turnips good, 
seed clover harvesting. 
Pass Kempsey ; a pleasant village, with many genteel 
modern built good houses, orchards, but little fruit; 
wheat stubble carrying off the ground for litter. 
To Croome.—Fresh planted fruit and timber trees, 
cheaply guarded by strong thorns stuck in the ground 
around them, and tied to them with withs. Croome 
House and offices are magnificent, and the demesne 
kept in the highest style of neatness, well watered, and 
better wooded ; soil not rich, often moist gravel or 
clay, but well drained ; the agricultural improvements 
here are, good roads, draining, and covering an indif¬ 
ferent soil with a good turf, well stocked with valuable 
sheep and cattle; the other improvements rather be¬ 
long to landscape gardening, and are neatness and 
picturesque effect from judicious planting. 
As Lord Coventry has in hand a large tract of grass 
land, well stocked with sheep and cattle, as their num¬ 
bers increase, instead of being sent to fairs they are 
disposed of at stated times, annually, or at longer pe¬ 
riods, by auction; one of these sales was now, Octo¬ 
ber 8, 180.3, for particulars of which, see the article 
Li ve Stock. 
On a considerable waste, on the east side of Croome 
Park, called, I believe, Defford Common, are good 
strong sheep of the Cotteswold breed, but some grey¬ 
faced sheep. 
Pass 
