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Sent from Wrest Park:

11 May 1775

From: 1775 To: 1775

"Perhaps... Richmond may excel us in the gay mixture of the colours of the flowering shrubs, but for luxuriant foliage and the rich deep tints of verdure, I am sure they are nowhere in such high perfection as in Wrest park and gardens... We are but just in the beginning of May, and the cinnamon rose, the rose without thorns, and some kind of honeysuckles are in full blow. The intended walk is at last begun. It was set about this very morning, and Seccumbe/Seckham hopes to finish it in a few days, as far as it can be finished at present, with stones and rubbish covered over with sand." Hunting news. "The farm goes on prosperously, the henhouses will be roofed next Monday, and now we are considering how to fill them with good poultry, and we want to get at a fine breed of the large white Dorkings."

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CORRESPONDENCE, Wrest Park, gardens, hunting, poultry