SEPT. 6. - Cowley House; Mrs. Wells. We find by a letter from the gardener, Mr. Griffin, that in our previous account of this place, we made some mistakes and omissions, occasioned by the memorandum-book in which we had made our notes being unfortunately lost on our return to Exeter. The principal mistake we made was calling the rivers which join in Mrs. Wells's grounds the Exe and the Culm, whereas it should have been the Exe and the Creedy. The conservatory has four sashes in the roof which open, instead of one or two, as we had stated; and the gardener has only won prizes at Exeter and Plymouth, and has never exhibited in London. We should also have noticed that Mrs. Wells, who is a zealous patroness of gardening, purchases all the rarest and most valuable house plants that can be obtained, so that the collection of hothouse and greenhouse plants at Cowley is one of the finest in the county. Of this we had additional proof, when we attended one of the Exeter Horticultural shows, on our return to that city, Sept. 23d (reported in Gard. Chron. October 15. 1842), and saw how much of the display there, which was splendid for the season, depended on the plants from Cowley House. We have mentioned house plants as being those in which Cowley House is particularly rich; but there are also in the shrubberies a great many of the choicest trees and shrubs, some of them fine specimens, the names and dimensions of which we took down at the time, as we did of many of the house plants. Having lost all these memorandums, we have written to the gardener, Mr. Griffin, for an enumeration of such articles as he pointed out to us, and of which he thought we took notes, and this enumeration we now give.
