The grounds at Slyne House, R. Greene Bradley, Esq., are beautifully situated and perfectly kept, as much so as those at Whitmore Lodge, but, like them, the edgings of the walks are much too harsh; an evil which in both cases is already, or will soon be, remedied. An incipient taste for plants has been created at Halton Hall, in this neighbourhood, and Miss Bradshaw is pursuing it with the greatest vigour and skill. The same may be said with respect to Halton Rectory and the garden of Miss Dalton; the latter of which, however, we did not see. Dallam Tower is spoiled by the entrance to the house being on the wrong side, and masses of trees are wanted on the knolls in the park, and groups of trees and stones by the margin of the river. Elleray, the villa of Professor Wilson, is placed on perhaps the most commanding situation on the banks of Windermere; but the effect to the stranger is spoiled by the display of all the beauties of that situation before entering the house, in consequence of its being approached on the wrong side. Though there are scarcely any dug beds or flowers about the house, yet the plantations at the entrance-lodge are dug and planted with roses and flowers. (See p. 398, 399. and 544.) Besides this mismanagement as to the approach, the poet, as we have already observed (p. 537.), has the tree disease to an extreme degree. [Editor's Note: The Parish of Slyne-with-Hest is in the north western part of Lancashire. Halton Hall is 2.5 miles north east of Lancaster. Dallam Tower is 4 miles north west of Burton in Kendal]
