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IRISH GARDENING. 



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The Moorlands, Greystones, Co. Wkklow. 



The Residence of George N. Jacob, Esq. 

 The photograph was taken three years after the completion of the house, and shows 

 the extent to which the south wall of the building was covered in that period. 1 he ivy- 

 leaf geranium is shown in full flower against the house, reaching to the upper windovvs, 

 and is also in the tubs and the hanging baskets on the verandah. A crmison rambler 

 rose is growing against the wall with the geranium, and encircles the casement wmdow 

 above, showing here and there through the geranium on the wall. A Reve d'Or rose 

 is shown round the Octagon window, and Solnuimi iast/n'iuvdcs on the verandah. 



and that at a minimum of labour. We plant it 

 and cut it back that it can cling- to the ba.se 

 (lb initio, and the plant does the rest, and we 

 are not inclined to fall out with it for its deci- 

 duous character, for even in its winter undress 

 its delicate stem tracery has a beauty peculiarly 

 its own, whilst from such time as spring bids it 

 bestir itself till the " fires of autumn " kindle it 

 into flashes of dying" glory our friend from far 



uprights of a verandah. It may be 

 said that verandahs are the excep- 

 tion. That is so. We would, never- 

 theless, like to see them the rule if 

 only under the simplest form of larch 

 uprights with the spurs left on, and 

 a latticed or other roof for the pur- 

 pose of this adornment, whilst the 

 porch, rustic or otherwise according 

 to its fitness, is always welcome. 



By the LifiFey's side, yclept the 

 Strawberry Beds, how charming is 

 the all too brief summer display when 

 the humble homes are decked in all 

 the bravery of emerald green and 

 brilliant blooms of the common 

 climbing nasturtium ! Alas, that for 

 so much of the year bareness pre- 

 vails " where once a g^arden smiled!" 

 W^ith the steady progress of our 

 district horticultural and industrial 

 associations we can hope for better 

 and more permanent things in this 

 direction. We want our people to 

 know all about Dorothy Perkins 

 rose, the cotoneasters, Cni/dcgiis 

 pvi'(ic(i)ifha, the fire thorn, and all the 

 possibilities that lay before them in 

 making- the home beautiful, and it is 

 just possible, too, that a little advice, 

 as well as a little tangible aid, may 

 be wanted to hasten the day of 

 better things. Aspect and climatic 

 condition cannot be safely left out 

 of the calculation. In the ultra 

 favoured spots, within sound and 

 scent of the sea, we may have 

 the elegant ivy-leaved pelargonium 

 growing apace for years (as in 

 Fig. i), whilst such things as Eccre- 

 niocarpHs scabcr and the Passion 

 flowers Coerulea and Constance 

 Elliot are as happy as they are 

 beautiful, whilst we would like to 

 see the gable end (independent of 

 aspect) of every cottage home covered with a 

 fan-trained Victoria plum, and thus combine the 

 utile ct diilcc in the decorative scheme. One may 

 take it for granted, too, that the beautified ex- 

 terior of home, however humble, is an index 

 of the sweeter home life within. 



To do justice to the illustration (Fig. 2) of 

 the humbler type of home one feels it would be 

 necessary to present the context shorn of its 



Japan does more' for us than any other creeper simple but eff'ective decoration. However, 



ever did or is ever likely to do. True, in the such unfortunately is not wanting, for one can 



newer Ampclopsis scmpcrvirens we have, as see it every day, to all intents and purposes, 



implied, an evergreen form, and then there are the same home nude and destitute of the re- 



the true vines such as Vitis Hcnrvi, V. thimbenyi deeming vegetation, and all its crude ugliness 



and V. coignettice, all eminently suited to the emphasised, may be, by grimy gossoons and 



