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twelve degrees at the very beginning of October, 

 which did a frightful lot of damage. 



••In 1895 we had every Olearia I laa.-t ii and every 

 Veronica, including Traversi, and every standard 

 Rose killed si one dead. 



" Al den ham garden is fairly sheltered from 

 north and easl by woods. The rainfall is said 

 to be 2 J in. average per annum, but is very often 

 below that, and we are generally in want of rain, 

 a very differenl condition to Ireland. When our 

 soil is wet it sticks to your boots like putty, and 

 the whole country gets up and follows you : when 

 dry it is like iron, and cracks into enormous 

 clefts, which expose the roots of shrubs and t rees. 

 Our strongest wind is the south-west, hut we gel 

 off lightly in that respect as a rule." 



" Pennicks." 



En Route. — Not a few who joined the combined 

 excursion of the Dublin Seed and Nursery Trades 

 Employes and the Irish Gardeners' Association to 

 " Pennicks," on the 1 1th ult.. making up a party 

 of some seventy all told, will have and hold 

 pleasurable recollections of this outing mid the 

 mountains of Wieklow under tropical sunshine. 

 It was a quick run from Westland How. with a 

 glimpse of some of the party as we rushed through 

 Blackrock station, waiting to board a train. 



which, once started, seemed inclined to stop at 

 nothing and nowhere, so there was no help for 



it and — and they arrived later. It is, of course, 

 uphill from Greystones to Delgany, above which 

 the Nurseries lie. and with a guide to show us a 

 near cut by devious ways across the meadows, 

 which he himself seemed not too well acquainted 

 with, those of the fat and forty variety lost much 

 moisture, which was thoughtfully and promptly 

 replenished on arrival, and later on the llarcourt 

 Street contingent arrived also hot and happy. 

 Lesser Things. Mr. I. I'. Jones, President of 



the Dublin Seed and Nursery Trades Employes' 

 Association, and Proprietor of " Pennicks," 

 pioneered the tirst contingent, and here followeth 

 some of the things seen in the Nurseries of 35 

 acres, including ten of fruit trees: Among 

 various Meadow Hue-,. Thai id rum dipterocarpum, 

 not yet in flower, was regarded with interest, as 

 was likewise .Mutisia decurrens. Crinodendron 

 Hooked is happy on the old-fashioned residence, 

 as is ( 'est rami fascicularis and Sollya het erophylla. 

 I'ot cut ilia Yilmorinii is highly spoken of , and t here 

 is no question as to the beauty and superiority of 

 Abutllon vitifolium allium in its large, satiny- 

 white blossoms, and the double white Lilac, 

 .Madame I.emoine. at its best, was much admired. 

 Among the hardy flowers in the numerous borders 

 and plots negotiated by the party nothing was 



more striking than VerbaSCUm Caledonia in its 



bronzy-hued Mower spikes shot with purple, the 



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Daisy Hill seedling bicolored Broom, of the 

 Andreanus type being equally attractive. 



Shrubs and Trees.- Abelia rupestris, 

 Olearias Fosteri and nitida, Pittosporum 

 Buchanani, and the very distinct Escallonia 

 organensis were noticed, but the king of the 

 shrubby things in flower this day was Pittosporum 

 coria ecu m with white scented blossoms in the way 

 of tobira. A most distinguished Oak of shrubby 

 habit is Quercus glabra, but of t he huge .specimen. 

 Hhododendron arboreuin. its glory had departed 

 for the season. Other things noted were the 

 St. John's Bread, Ceratonia Kiliqua. Ligustrum 

 Delavayana, the Cockspur Thorn, Crataegus Crus- 

 ^c;» Ili. a bright bit of foliage being disclosed in 

 K.-ei n pfer's El m. We have no intention, however', 

 of labouring a list of the many things seen — rare, 

 curious, useful, beautiful, or interesting, all that 

 is given in the firm's comprehensive catalogue. 

 The fates forbid, nevertheless, that we should 

 omit Myrtus Luma, 25 feet high, and rotund in 

 proportion, or the grand old specimens of I'inus 

 Laricio and Pinus Pinea, whilst the Araucaiias 

 are. perhaps, the arboreal features of the 

 Nurseries. 



EXCELSOIB AM) At R EV< >IR. 1 1 igh as t he part y 

 was above the sea level nothing must do but 

 heavenwards still in the way of climbing 

 Kendals-town hill, into which the stout parts of 

 the party were beguiled, and who. notwith- 

 standing avoirdupois, found soulful refreshment 



in the fair scene of seascape and landscape, 

 including more mountainous regions beyond. 

 Prior to this exploration the whole party, con- 

 sisting of the two contingents, with the addition 



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