Cashiobury Park House, and the scenery immediately surrounding it, excite ideas of grandeur, combined with comfort and beauty, such as cannot easily be communicated by words. The buildings and garden scenery seem peculiarly well suited to each other: both are venerable with age, extensive, rich in design, and generally in the highest order and keeping. We entered the pleasure-ground by a small door near a Turkish pavilion, richly lined with cloth, and carpeted and furnished with sofa and tables. We then passed in front of the house, and entered on the other side to a series of different sorts of flower-gardens. After passing through these in succession, the effect left on the mind was that of having been carried through a labyrinth of beauty and variety. So rapidly were we hurried along, that, after a first visit, it is not easy to recall to the memory distinct pictures of what we have seen, or the order in which we saw them. We shall merely note a few particulars from recollection, promising ourselves, in the beginning of next summer, the gratification of seeing this place at leisure, when to its many other attractions will be added the singing of innumerable birds.
