Pinus excelsa, or Bhotan pine,-by some called the "weeping fir,"-seven years old; a handsome tree on its native mountains, but apparently of indifferent growth in this country.

Pinus Cembra, a tree which naturally affects the colder ranges of Siberia and Switzerland; and hence, we conclude, well adapted to clothe the more elevated districts in this country.

Pinus Pinea, a tree which, in this county, is sometimes confounded with the P. Pinaster, or cluster pine, but which in reality is seldom seen in England except in the character of a bush.

Larix Americana, or American larch, seventeen feet high, which, to our ideas, is less ornamental than the common plant, though forming a valuable addition to a collection like the present.

Abies Canadensis, or hemlock spruce, planted in 1813, and now having a trunk nine inches in diameter. This is a most graceful object, and it strikes us as somewhat singular that we should meet so seldom with the species.

Abies excelsa, or common spruce; numerous fine trees, planted in 1813, averaging five feet four inches in circumference.

Abies excelsa nigra, or black-leaved spruce, of similar dimensions.

Abies picea; numerous trees, remarkable for the rapidity of their growth; one of them, planted twenty-seven years, having a trunk seven feet two inches in circumference.

Taxodium distichum, the deciduous cypress, twelve years planted, and twenty-six feet high, the diameter of the trunk being nine inches.

Along the borders of a walk leading from the west side of the mansion, are some of the most thriving young trees we ever beheld. The scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea), planted thirteen years, is here twenty-eight feet high; the evergreen oak (Q. Ilex) is of similar height; the Levant oak (Q. Cerris), planted twenty-seven years, has a stem five feet one inch in circumference, and rises to the height of forty-four feet; the sweet chestnut (Castanea resca), of a like age, has

a trunk five feet in circumference, and has attained to the height of forty feet. Beyond these, is the magnificent walnut-tree (Juglans regia) already alluded to, which, at a foot and a half from the surface of the ground, measures thirteen feet and eleven inches in circumference; whilst the diameter of the space over which the branches extend is seventy-eight feet. This fine object is appropriately surrounded by a hedge of laurel.

In a similar direction from the house is an elegant flowergarden; beyond which, again, are some fine trees of the English elm, averaging about thirteen feet four inches in circumference; and some equally striking trees of the horse chestnut (Æsculus Hippocastanum), which assume something of the habit of the banian

"Branching so broad and long that in the ground

The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow
About the mother tree, a pillared shade

High over-arched."

On the walk in the pleasure-ground, near to the greenhouse, is a very ancient mulberry-tree, which, though hollow, is yet yearly clad with luxuriant verdure and a plentiful crop of fruit. Here likewise is a remarkable specimen of that common though noble tree, the English oak-remarkable, if we are correct, on account of the rapidity of its growth it is now a very stately tree fifty-five feet high, and according to our memoranda planted in 1813.

From the trees being in general so young, we cannot say that there is any part of this residence which rises into a grand feature at the same time, throughout the entire scene, and especially from the south front of the house, there is to be seen a very harmonious and elegant assemblage of charming objects, rendering it a seat which claims a high place in the class to which it belongs.

SEETHING HALL,

THE SEAT OF MRS. KETT.

An ancient-like secluded place; deserving of notice chiefly on account of its trees and its unique collection of waterfowl, foreign and indigenous. On the lawn, at the south side of the mansion, are two silver firs each ten feet in circumference at one foot from the ground, and rising to a great altitude: their tops are to be seen from many points in the distant country. On the opposite side of the building, a few hundred yards distant, is an oak, topped about a century since, which exhibits many points of excellence; it is a wide spreader, and has a dense head of spray; the trunk, at one foot from the ground, is nineteen feet in circumference, and at six feet high, twenty-four feet and two inches. Eastward of this is an ash-tree, which, with its fair outline and loose airy branches, forms a fine object: its circumference of trunk is thirteen feet. Nearer to the osier-grounds will be found another magnificent pollarded oak, sixteen feet around the trunk. Next in order comes the Pondyard, a rich sylvan retreat, interspersed with many a sheet of water, and inhabited, as we have observed, by a splendid collection of aquatic birds. This is by far the most interesting feature at this seat, and is certainly worthy of being copied by owners of demesnes of higher pretension. There is nothing here of that polished formality so observable in many residences, formed as it were by the receipt, and which, although in some respects beautiful, is yet tiresome from its want of variety. Whether by accident, or design, or even by neglect, we know not, but this spot certainly presents some of the most pleasing interblendings of wood and water that we have lately witnessed: there is a forest-like unconstrained growth amongst the trees in some parts, and generally so much sweet woodland prospect, sequestered, and yet so free from gloom, that it at once commends itself as a most delightful retreat for repose and reverie.