Notwithstanding the wretched state in which this place was, we noticed in a flower-garden near the house very large plants of Clianthus puniceus and fuchsias; Bouvardia triphylla, 4 ft. high, and forming a large bush; rosemary, 6 ft. and 8 ft. high, forming most beautiful bushes; large magnolias of different kinds; and a bed of broad-leaved myrtles pegged down, so as to cover the entire bed with their white flowers. Among the trees and shrubs, along the walk before mentioned, were, a straight erect arbor-vitï¾µ, upwards of 30 ft. high, with a clear trunk 1 ft. in diameter; immense rhododendrons, azaleas, and laurustinus; and a black spruce, 50 ft. high, feathered to the ground, its lowest branches rooted in the soil, and their points forming a circle of young trees ranged round their parent.
