Beauport; Sir Charles Lamb, Bart. The grounds are extensive, delightfully and boldly undulated, and commanding fine views of the sea in some places, and of the interior of the country in others. They have been naturally covered by woody scenery, interspersed with glades of different forms and degrees of extent, smooth in some places, and rough with furze or fern in others. The park is many acres in extent, and throughout the whole a character of exotic planting and picturesque beauty has been given by the introduction of foreign trees and shrubs, and even of strong-growing herbaceous plants. Aristolochias, Virginias, creepers, periplocas, menispermums, climbing roses, lyciums, wistarias, and other climbers, may be seen scrambling up the stems and branches of native trees; and among the native trees and bushes are grouped great numbers of American oaks, acers, thorns, and in short, foreign trees of every description. This character of foreign scenery is greatly heightened by the introduction here and there of single specimens of exotic trees of remarkable forms, standing out from conspicuous prominences of masses and thickets, and in the recesses and glades formed by them; while in other places native trees and plants are alone seen. An araucaria, a deodar cedar, a liquidambar, a purple beech, or a weeping tree of some sort, now and then engages the eye, and we forget for the moment that we are among native scenery in a transition state, till, as we advance, we see masses of fern, or groups of the birch or the common oak. In the masses there are a great many pines, firs, cedars, junipers, taxodiums, and, in short, every tree or shrub purchasable in British nurseries. There are some fine thriving araucarias, some of them 5 or 6 feet high; a deodar cedar, 10 ft. high; Pinus variabilis, 15 ft. high; P. ponderosa, 15 ft. high; some remarkably luxuriant plants of Pinus Laricio; and rhododendrons and azaleas without number. We have seldom seen a place improved so much after our own heart, as far as planting is concerned. The only fault that we could find with it was, the too hedge-like appearance of the laurels in one part of the approach, where they had obtruded on it so much as to require to be cut in a formal manner, inconsistent with the picturesque character which prevails everywhere else. However, two hours' work of a man with a hedge-bill would remove this deformity.
