In a large conservatory there are some fine fruit-bearing specimens of the mandarin orange, the pulp or sarcocarp of which separates from the skin or epicarp as a filbert does from its husk; and of a most agreeably tasted yellow-fleshed orange, brought from Malta by Mr. Baker, which we have not seen elsewhere. At the south end of the mansion there is a wall covered with orange trees, and in the border in front are many half-hardy herbaceous and suffrutescent plants. The wall and border are protected by a roof and front, consisting of sashes of thatch instead of glass, which take out or slide between rafters like the sashes of a green-house; and by which air and light can be given and taken away every mild day, with rapidity and ease, while the thickness of the thatch is such as completely to exclude frost. The wall against which the trees are trained, being the side of one of the office buildings, it cannot be assailed by frost in that quarter. There are many interesting scenes, such as rockwork, summer-houses, flower-gardens, aquariums, trelliswork, in the pleasure-ground near the house, which we cannot stop to describe, and also many fine specimens of old trees, the family having been devoted to planting for three generations.
