Swiss Gardens at Shoreham

The Swiss Gardens at Shoreham have been extended and improved, and they exhibit a very respectable assemblage of roses and showy flowers. We wish there had been a few more shrubs of different kinds, with labels exhibiting their names. Were only one shrub or tree of a kind, or even two, introduced in these gardens, they might contain a very tolerable arboretum; nor would this interfere with any of the uses or applications of any part of the garden. For example, there are, we should think, twenty or thirty plants of common willow on the banks of the water; and twice as many creepers on the walls, comprising only two or three species: but both willows and creepers might be of as many different species or varieties as there are plants. However, it is a most gratifying circumstance to observe the improvement that has taken place in these gardens since we last saw them in 1838; and their proprietor deserves the highest credit for forming them and keeping them up, as his object has evidently been more the accommodation of the public than his own emolument.