Arno's Grove, Southgate, the residence of Mrs. Walker, is a place which we should wish to visit several times every year, not only on its own account, but because of the beautiful road to it, bordered, as it is, great part of the way, by an undulating country and noble trees in park-like scenery. The collection of trees and shrubs here, at the time the place was planted, has undoubtedly consisted of every thing that could be procured in the London nurseries, for the proprietor, like the late Mr. Gray of Harringay, was the friend of Collinson, Ellis, Dr. Fothergill, and their contemporaries. The specimens of Quercus palustris here, which we have before mentioned, are alone worth an annual visit; not to speak of the purple-branched oak, the Oriental plane, the magnolias, the cedars, the immense berberry, the lagerstr£mia against the conservative wall, which has resisted the winter of 1837-8 without the slightest protection, and many other hardy and house plants. By the side of the walk which leads from this place to Minchenden, we observed Collinsia grandiflora, and a number of other foreign plants, apparently naturalised. At Woodlands, the residence of -Taylor, Esq., the fine old conservatory built by Mr. Nash has been pulled down, and the lawn and pleasure-grounds, so highly kept in former times, are now in a state of comparative neglect.
