Woodville; Mrs. Walker, Similarly situated to the Moult, except that the strip of pleasure-ground is broader, and fronts an arm of the sea, looking across to rising grounds and to Salcombe Castle, a ruined fort. There are several walls 10 ft. high covered with orange and lemon trees, which require very little protection, and this is given by reed mats or boards, without the aid of artificial heat. Here, as at the Moult, and as at an adjoining place belonging to Mrs. Prideaux, it is chiefly the older greenhouse plants that have been planted out, with the exception of the new fuchsias. The agave flowers freely every thirty years, and Medicago arborea, Coronilla glauca, Edwardsia macrophylla and microphylla, Piltosporum Tobira, the myrtle, the olive, and similar plants, have attained a large size. There are a great many plants of the New Zealand flax at Woodville, which would appear to have been planted with a view to use. The keeping was good, but, we should say, not founded on principle; because in some places, where accident had washed away the gravel from the edges of the walks, it was not supplied, and the edges consequently were left high and raw. The wall-trees, both here and at the Moult, were admirably managed. Neither here nor at the Moult had the gardeners ever heard of our name or of any of our works, or of any of the gardening newspapers. We took memorandums of an agave twenty-two years old, with leaves 7 ft. long; a metrosideros, 10 ft. high; myrtles, 10 ft. high; Phormium tenax, 6 ft. high, which, after being twelve years planted, has flowered; olives as standards, and one in the stable-yard upwards of 20 ft. high; a splendid bush of rosemary, 7 ft. high; one of the oranges with a stem 18 in. round at a foot from the ground, and another 12 in. The walls here, at the Moult, at Mrs. Prideaux's, and Lord Kinsale's adjoining, are chiefly of stone.
