The Grounds of the Priory. -Farther on are certain plantations of spruce firs, apparently meant to conceal the grounds of the Priory from the public road. They have been thickly planted, and never thinned; and, like other woods of the same kind which have been similarly treated, they are now beginning to defeat the purpose for which they were intended. Had two thirds of the plants been hollies, there would now have been a phalanx of vegetation, impenetrable, both as a fence and as a screen. A few hollies, indeed, appear to have been planted among the spruce firs; but, from inattention to thinning out the latter, the former have never come to any size. Watford deserves to be mentioned for its gravel, which is equal to the best of that at Kensington. Mr. Snare, the nurseryman here, has attracted notice, for many years past, by his dwarf apple trees. It was formerly, it seems, quite new here, to graft apples on paradise stocks, and thus produce bushes not larger, and not less prolific, than the gooseberry.
