However, I did not press the argument, from which my Quaker seemed rather desirous to escape; for, conducting me to the greenhouse, which was extensive, and filled with the choicest plants, she pointed out an aviary which occupied the farther end, where, she said, she employed herself with attending the inhabitants, without being disturbed with any painful recollections concerning their future destination.
I will not trouble you with any account of the various hot-houses and gardens, and their contents.

No small sum of money must have been expended in erecting and maintaining them in the exquisite degree of good order which they exhibited.

The family, I understood, were connected with that of the celebrated Millar, and had imbibed his taste for flowers, and for horticulture.

But instead of murdering botanical names, I will rather conduct you to the POLICY, or pleasure-garden, which the taste of Joshua or his father had extended on the banks betwixt the house and river.

This also, in contradistinction to the prevailing simplicity, was ornamented in an unusual degree.