standing in the park at the west front of the mansion, three hundred years old, and measuring seventeen feet in circumference. It is now in its decrepitude, and presents a singularly picturesque and beautiful character. As is sometimes the case with this tree, it has recovered its growth of late years, and is now clad in verdant foliage. Like the eagle, it has "renewed its youth," and promises to flourish yet for many seasons.

In the shrubbery there are many handsome lime-trees, one of which measures twelve feet in circumference, and has a branchless trunk of forty-five feet in height. We likewise observed here some trees of the Scotch pine, apparently of the true Highland variety, with beautiful straight stems fifty feet in length. In Matlask wood, and in the grounds beyond the pond, there are some admirable specimens of our English timber trees. An oak here has a stem of fourteen feet in circumference; an ash, thirteen feet; a beech, fourteen feet, with a top of graceful, drooping foliage. We must not forget, also, that the hawthorn has been found worthy to fill a conspicuous place here, and that it has attained to a great size. We trust that, to those already growing here, the proprietor will add the remaining species of this interesting genus, and render complete a class of plants, equally distinguished for the sweetness of their fragrance and the beautiful simplicity of their flowers.

The trees which struck us as being particularly handsome here, are of the lime species. Their lofty stature and the elegance of their structure, cannot but strike with admiration every one who is at all interested in such delightful objects. Standing in the immediate vicinity of the mansion, they are especially desirable on account of their odoriferous flowers and embowering shade: they form, too, the most fitting furniture to the well-kept lawn on which they grow; for, in our opinion, no tree is invested with more graceful masses of spray, or displays, during the first months of summer, such soft and spring-like leaves. Many a delightful day did the philosophers of Rome spend under the shady canopy of the lime or linden; and we believe that none of the trees which have been since added to our Sylva, offer a

more grateful or inviting shade. Let us continue, then, to plant it as they did. It is not at all a shy tree to grow; and, what is worthy of remembrance, it may be transplanted even at a considerable age and height, with as much certainty of its growing as if it were only a year or two old. Though not indigenous on the plains of Norfolk, this tree has been known to attain a size in this county unexampled in any other district. The most extraordinary tree of this species that ever rose within the British isles, belonged to this part of the country, and so prodigious was its size that, had its dimensions not been attested by an authority beyond all question, we should have been apt to have placed it amongst the fables of tradition. It grew at Deepham, and has been noticed by every writer on trees with which we are acquainted.

For beauty of situation and general attraction, Barningham may well vie with many of the finest seats in our county. Enjoying, in no ordinary degree, an uneven and varied surface, and being naturally a place designed as an agreeable habitation, it has all the advantages of an enlightened taste exercised over it, so that we continually find it in an engaging dress and in the most perfect order. The present worthy possessor has spared no pains to render this place as complete as possible by planting, and, we rejoice to say, he has been eminently successful. The trees of his earlier improvements here, are now developing their mingled beauties, some of them rising into stately fabrics, others with outstretched arms, forming embowering canopies; whilst not a few, as Lord Walpole expresses it, have swelled themselves into goodly timber. The sources of pleasure in watching the progress of individuals in such a motley company, are, no doubt, considerably enhanced by their being originally placed here by the proprietor himself, who takes a great delight in his trees.

At a little distance from the hall, is the parish church, which by some has been considered one of the prettiest and most delightfully situated buildings of this description in the county. It stands on a gentle eminence, environed by the foliage of the oak and ash, having its tower overgrown

with ivy. The villagers, in this quarter, are greatly indebted to Mr. Mott, who has beautified this building so much, and added considerably to the comfort and elegance of its interior.

We annex an etching of a very elegant lime-tree which stands in the vicinity of the hall, and which may be justly considered one of the finest trees upon the estate. From its being planted chiefly in avenues, the lime is seldom seen in that flowing spray represented in the etching; but when standing singly, as in this case, it is almost always invested in this character. This specimen is fifty-six feet high, and measures twelve feet in circumference. There is another beautiful tree of the same species in the shrubbery, of similar girth but with a stem of forty-five feet in height.

We must not omit to state that in the flower-garden is a splendid display of that most lovely of all flowers, the rose. They are of the standard form. A collection such as this is invaluable in these times, when the generality of gardeners and amateurs are bent upon cultivating only the gaudy and soulless trifles of our prize shows. No flower or shrub has yet been, and probably never will be, introduced, to take the precedence of, or even to equal, this chaste and elegant flower. It is a plant which has in all times been celebrated equally for the richness of its fragrance and the beauty of its blossom. Hafez, the Persian poet, says, "when the rose comes into the garden the violet prostrates itself before it with its face to the ground." How strange that we should have to write so about the rose!

The houses in the garden consist of a vinery and greenhouse, lately erected under the direction of Mr. Cockburn, who has considerably improved the whole appearance of the place, and who is now engaged in the most important of all improvements here, -the extension of the lawn over the elevated country lying beyond the lake.