of considerable dimensions. Many of these trees are full twelve feet in circumference around the trunk, having heads of ample expanse and goodly boles.

Near the same entrance, a very successful attempt at planting single trees has been put into practice. Some sixty years since an extraordinary rage prevailed for the culture of the pine tribe, and the spot in question was devoted to their exclusive propagation; but the great majority of them has since been removed, and an intermixture of oaks now supplies their place. The holes for these trees were opened in the autumn, the frost and moisture of the entire winter having thereby free access to the soil; and the trees are now thriving, not at all indicating that they had not been planted there originally.

A handsome piece of water, terminating in a lake, traverses the entire park, and from the house, which stands on a gentle eminence, forms, from whatever side it may be viewed, a most happy feature. The church, which is decorated with yews and other evergreens and backed by wood, is situated in a corner of the grounds, and affords also a pleasing prospect from the mansion. We trust the paddocks and boxes, now in course of erection here, will never be allowed to interrupt or exclude in this quarter so rural an object.

The grounds throughout are of that easy undulating character of that happy interblending of wood and water— with sufficient of shelter to create a feeling of warmth and protection-with sufficiency, too, of open glade and expanse to preclude the idea of crampness or confinement-that to us they convey no inapt type of that which, in the seat of a nobleman, is most desirable.

We cannot pass over the many fine trees with which this park and shrubbery abound. The Scotch pines (P. sylvestris) are of very noble character: the cedar too (Cedrus Libani), and the deciduous cypress (Taxodium distichum), of which we give etchings, are well worthy of remark. The latter, which is a scarce tree in this county, has attained to the height of thirty-six fect, and when we saw it, it was clothed in all the beauty of its elegantly pinnate foliage.