Oct. 15. - Wadhurst to Battle Abbey, Beaufort, and Rose Hill The day was fine, the roads smooth and firm, though hilly, and the foliage of the woods delightfully varied with autumnal &&&. In some of the artificial plantations we observed here and there an American oak, the leaves of which were of an intense red, scarlet, yellow, orange, and sometimes purple. In the plantations to which we allude, there were also some American acers and the Norway maple, exhibiting dark reds and rich yellows. The degree to which these trees enhanced the interest of the plantations alluded to can only be conceived by those who are as fond of trees as we are, and who know a good many foreign kinds. At what a small expense interest of this kind might be created by planting foreign oaks, acers, &c., wherever plantations are to be made, and by grafting or budding wherever they already exist. It is true it requires rather an expert operator in graft the oak with success; but every gardener can graft or &&& Grecian or American thorns on the common thorns of the hedges, American acers and scarlet horsechestnuts on the common sorts, Pyrus spectabilis on crabs or thorns, the flowering ash or the common ash, with scores of other foreign trees or shrubs or native ones. If nothing more were done than grafting a few common sycamores or maples with Acer rubrum or eriocarpum, the result would be an ample compensation for the trouble.
