St. Ann's Hill; the Honourable Mrs. Fox. - We found this beautiful place in the best order; no expense being spared in carting water, and in labour, to water not only the herbaceous plants and culinary crops, but also the principal shrubs, and many of the trees. There is a magnificent cedar here, planted by Mrs. Fox forty years ago: it is 50 ft. high; the circumference of the trunk, at one foot from the ground, is 11 ft.; the space covered with the branches is 72 ft. in diameter; and this year it has above 800 cones. There is another cedar, also planted by Mrs. Fox, nearly as high, the branches of which cover a space 75 ft. in diameter, and the trunk of which girts 12 ft. A deciduous cypress, planted by Mrs. Fox thirty-five years ago, is 45 ft. high, and the branches cover a space 35 ft. in diameter. It as a most beautiful tree, with pendent branches sweeping the lawn; and it is now laden with small green cones, resembling a good deal those of the hemlock spruce. There are five other handsome trees of the same kind, none of which, however, bear cones: indeed, with the exception of a tree at Bagshot, and another at Purser's Cross, we are not aware of any other come-bearing deciduous cypresses in England. We should be glad if our readers would examine all the trees of this kind within their observation, and let us know if they have discovered any. There are a great many other fine trees at St. Ann's Hill, of all of which we have received the particulars, in a Return Paper carefully filled up by Mr. Tucker, the gardener, who was the inventor of a handsome flower-stand, an engraving of which appeared in one of our early volumes. [Ann's Hill was the home of Charles James Fox (1749 � 1806)]
