Trentham Saturday July 16 ^th,
I have just come in from a long and lonely but
most pleasant tramp through the gardens, to muse over the
defects of my description of this magnificent and changing view.
What have I said to give you an idea of the grandeur
of the Halls, the exquisite pictures, the rambling
statuary – the grove of laurel, the untended
colonnades of honeysuckle and
roses – the hillocks of peri-
winkle, the meadows
of geraniums, the
long bands
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forget me not, the arches of passion flower, the
groves of jessamine – Imagine it all as summed up
in the end that these are the finest gardens which
wealth has ^yet^ produced in this Kingdom –
A word about how all this is made –
I see plainly here that labour and skill are
infinitely diversified and cultivated – Persons edu-
cate and train themselves for every department – and
many commands the services of such – They design and
estimate and do all that the wealthy proprietor
ever wishes done – The inside of this palace is as
neat as the tidiest American lady could require
and yet the Dutchess sees it but twice a year – Her
gardens are made by a Scotchman who born poor
on the estate studied his art until he designed
all the wooden improvements and even suggested the
construction devices of the Chrystal palace – He is
now the steward – The farmer ^sows and^ gathers the crops
and raises the cattle as if they were his own. The
game keepers hazard their lives to preserve the rabbits
and pheasants. The poultry Keeper lives for the purpose
of that duty. In short the finest gentleman and
lady in the Kingdom for whom every thing works grows
flourishes and flows, toil not, neither do they spin,
and yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like them –