Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The London Magazine, Vol. 6: September to December, 1826
Tbe myriads of lemons that covered the walls were nearly ripe; there were some shaddocks also, and we descended to a little grove of orange trees; most of them were of a remarkable size. It was delightful to enter for the first time into a grove of laurels; the real bay, the laurus nobilis, grew over our heads into a great tree, and the young ones sprung up from the old stools: we almost expected to find the ancient bards and heroes, Inter odoratum lauri nemus. There IS a good collection of exotics; the gardens are kept perfectly neat; three men and twenty-five women are constantly employed: at this season the latter must have full occupation in picking up the falling leaves. The fine pyramidal cypresses, as it were ever-green poplars, have a singular and pleasing aspect.
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