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pleasure ground, about eighteen acres in extent, of close-mown 
turf, containing many fine specimens of Cedars of Lebanon and 
Deodara, some of the latter well-grown plants of twenty feet high, 
and fine grown trees of Taxodium sempervirens and Cryptomeria 
japonica, &c. Among deciduous trees are very large and hand¬ 
some Copper Beech, Tulip trees, Planes, and a very fine American 
Hickory. Holly, Yews, and tree Box have been very extensively 
used, all of which grow remarkably well. 
A deep sunk fence divides the pleasure ground from the park, 
which is very extensive and thickly wooded. A short distance 
from the house is a fine piece of water. A bank of evergreens on 
the west side of pleasure ground shuts in the flower garden, which 
is small and nicely laid out, and with beds and borders gay with 
flowers, has a very pleasing appearance. A brick wall, which 
divides the flower and kitchen gardens, looks rather unsightly this 
season, the roses and climbers with which it was covered being 
killed last winter, and will take two or three years to get covered 
again. 
The kitchen garden contains about five acres within the walls, 
divided into two parts by a high wall, which gives a good space 
for wall trees, although but little fruit has been obtained for 
several seasons ; and this year, as at most other places, the fruit 
crop, both on walls and standards, have been very small. Peach 
trees have suffered so much the last two winters that many of them 
are almost dead. Much of the soil is very shallow, in some parts 
not more than eighteen inches to the rock ; it can be worked in 
any weather, as the rain sinks direct through it as it falls. Vege¬ 
tables of all sorts do extremely well, if attended to for water while 
growing. Peaches under glass have this season been a fine crop. 
Grapes, of which a supply is kept up for nine or ten months ot 
the year, are very fine. Early and late melons, and winter cu¬ 
cumbers are grown in a lean-too pit, heated by a brick flue, and 
in summer both are grown in dung frames, and are found to do 
better than with fire heat; and in winter the frames are used for 
lettuce, and other salads, and for forcing asparagus, seakale, potatoes, 
carrots, radishes, &c. 
REMINISCENCES OF THE AUTUMN FLOWER SHOW 
AT BRIGHTON. 
I WAS a good deal annoyed at first to think that the length of my 
autumnal holiday would only allow me time enough to visit 
Brighton, but I learnt a good moral lesson by it, for I was after¬ 
wards quite pleased to think that circumstances caused me to be 
staying for few a days at Ijondon-sufper-Mare. I had a great horti¬ 
cultural treat there, at the autumnal exhibition of the Sussex 
Fioricultural and Horticultural Society, on the 18th and 19th of 
September. My readers will be kind enough to recollect that I 
was holiday keeping, and will not, therefore, expect a formal report 
of that show at my liands—that would have been too much like 
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