IRISH GARDENING 



VOLUME XIV 



No. 164 



Editor— J. W. Besant. 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF HORTICULTURE AND 



ARBORICULTURE IN IRELAND 



OCTOBER 

 1919 



Mount Usher^ County Wicklow* 



After an absence of several years it was a keen Near by is a iiue busli of Seuecio Hectori, with 



pleasure to revisit this famous garden. IMr. its large, handsome leaves, and in its season 



Walpole is a keen gardener, but discriminates carrying corymbs of large white, daisy-like 



in his })lanting, choosing only plants of merit, flowers, 



either for their flower, fruit, or foliage. Decaisnea Fargesii is an interesting shrub, 



Photo by] 



[!■'. G. PiestoH 



P/EONiA Emodi (see p. 147). 



The garden at ]\Iount Uslier has not grown 

 in a day : planting has been going on there for 

 some sixty years, so it may be easily imagined 

 tliat some fine specimens are to be seen. 



One of the first plants noted was a fine 

 specimen of Eucryphia cordifolia, 11 to 12 feet 

 high, can-ying hundreds of flowers, and with 

 numerous fruits of last year just ripening. 



producing from the base numerous stems, 

 clothed with long pinnate leaves, thus forming 

 an ornamental shrub. The flowers are greenish 

 and not conspicuf)us, but the deep-blue cylindri- 

 cal fruits, 3 to 4 ins. long, are distinctly hand- 

 some ; the seeds contained therein are em- 

 bedded in mucilage. 



Eosa Moyesii and E. setipoda, both of recent 



