Jtme 13, 1872. ) 



JOUrvNAL OP HORTICXJLfUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



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garden at Tresco Abbey, St. Mai-y's, it is believed from Kew, 

 a good many years ago. I had the pleasure of visiting these 

 gardens about fifteen yeai's ago, with my late friends Prof. 

 Harvey, of Dublin, and Veitch (the grandfather and foimder of 

 the firm), when we were aU astonished and delighted with the 

 luxuriance and variety, especially of the Cape and Australian 

 vegetation they displayed. Since that period Mr. Smith has 

 added many hundred species to his collection, and I have the 

 pleasure of receiving every early spring a hamper of cut flowers 

 of rare (with us) gi-eenhouse plants cultivated iu the open air, 

 when the Suowdi'op and the Winter Aconite are the only plants 

 to be seen flowering in our open borders. 



" Olearia dentata is a native of various localities in the East 

 coast of Australia, from Port Jackson, the Blue Mountains, 

 and Illawarra, southward to Twofold Bay." — {Ibid., t. 5973.) 



CiiOTALAKiA Hevne.vna (Mr. Heyne's Crotalaria). Nat. ovd., 

 Leguminosie. Linn., Slonadelphia Decandria. — This genus is 

 closely relately to the Lupine. Of this species, which is an 

 under-shrub 1-2 feet high, the flowers are white variously 

 marked with blue. It " is a native of the western coast of the 

 Indian Peninsula from Canara to Travancor, but is apparently 

 rare. It was discovered iu the early part of the century by 

 the botanist and missionary, Hej'ne. The specimen here 

 figured was raised from seed sent to the Koyal Gardens in 

 1868 by Major Beddome, F.L.S., of the Madi-as Forest Depart- 

 ment : it flowered iu the Palm House in March of the present 

 yeaj:.'-— {Ibid., t. 5974.) 



Petunias — Souvenir de Chiswick and Pantaloon. — These 

 are double-fringed varieties, they were "raised at Chiswick, 

 and, we beUeve, rank amongst the earUest of the fi-Lnged double- 

 flowered varieties. Theh history is this : — Mr. Barron obtained 

 from a packet of continental Petunia seed one plant which 

 produced single flowers having the margin fringed. A cross 

 was effected between this and some of the double-flowered sorts 

 grown at Chiswick, and the result was the production of varie- 

 ties combining the double flowers with the fringed mai'gin. 

 Pantaloon, the lighter, is a very distinct and handsome mottled 

 and margined flower. That named Souvenu' de Chiswick is 

 etjually handsome, but darker in the ground colour, and more 

 blotched than margined. 



" Those double-flowered Petunias are exceedingly valuable as 

 decorative pot plants for the greenhouse and conservatory, their 

 habit being so much more compact than most of the single- 

 flowered sorts, and the flowers so much more durable. The 

 grotesque markings of the blotched sorts also give them a 

 distinctive and interesting appearance. Young plants raised 

 annually in succession, and grown on for the purpose, form 

 some of the prettiest objects which can be provided for the 

 ornamentation of this department of the garden." — (Florist and 

 Pomologist, 3 s. v., 121.) 



plants produced double flowers. — E. J. D. — (EnjUsh Mechanic 

 and World of Science.) 



THE JET D'EAU. 

 We have reason for believing that this garden engine is 

 manufactm'ed by Messrs. Purser upon an entirely new principle, 

 and is the easiest working of any. 



It will thi'ow water downwards as 

 well as upwards, whereas in aU other 

 syringes of this class the jet must be 

 dii-ected upwards. It wiU throw 

 water farther, it is said, yet requiiTs 



scarcely half the power used for any other throwing the same 



quantity of water. 



Obtaining Docble Flowebs. — From an old gardener who 

 was celebrated for his Stock GiUiflowera I obtained the follow- 

 ing information : — His plan was to save seed from the semi- 

 double plants only, and to carefully wrap up the seed in brown 

 paper, not to be again opened for five years. He showed me 

 liis collection of seeds, and gave me some of white and crimson 

 from packages which he declared had been saved five years. 

 I sowed those seeds, and the next year found nearly all the 



AVOODSTOCK PARK.— No. -2. 



The Residence op the Eight Hon. W. F. Tighe. 

 Again wc take a \'iew of the piled-up and picturesque houses 

 of the village of Inistioge ; then we ascend the zigzag street and 

 reach the main entrance-gate — a plain massive gate and lodge, 

 quite in keeping with everything that has been designed or 

 risen-up under the eye of the present owniers of Woodstock. 

 There are so many things of interest that meet the eye at Inis- 

 tioge, that it is difficult to select what is most worthy of notice 

 before we leave tliis charming old town, but there are in the 

 old churchyai'd here tombstones to the memory of more than 

 one gardener, also stewards, who had " faithfully" served the 

 Et. Hon. W. P. Tighe, and whose memories this flood master 

 has worthily recorded m marble. 



We have long felt that the approach to a residence like Wood- 

 stock is one of the most difficult things to deal with in land- 

 scape gardening. So much disappointment has arisen in deal- 

 ing with approaches, and so much has been written byKepton, 

 Gilpin, and other authorities on this point, that we may be 

 excused for entering into some jjarticulars of what constitutes 

 one of the finest examples of approaches that we have seen 

 with one exception ; this exception is, that tlie approach 

 should have started from neai- the police barracks, and gradu- 

 ally risen to tlie lino of approach above Mount Sandford. We 

 see no engineering difficulty in carrying out this Une, and if 

 it were done, it would make this noble place one of the most 

 complete that could be imagined. 



But we must proceed to speak of the beautifivl scene as we 

 enter the park. On the right the ground rises to a weU-wooded 

 ridge, and near the diive are a great variety of forest trees in 

 groups, and the Walnut here gives fine effect at this time, 

 when the rich bronzy leaves are seen against the soft yellow 

 green of the Beech. The river and the bridge as seen from 

 near the gate form a picture of rare composition. Nearing 

 the mansion the scene changes, all trace of the river disaj^- 

 pears, and the farms on the far side look as if merging into 

 the park. From this point the wooded side of Mount Alto 

 forms a bold boundary on the upper or south side of the park, 

 and right opposite is the lofty I3randou with the small pic- 

 turesque fields stretching far up its side. 



From the Inistioge entrance to Woodstock House is about a 

 mile. This diive is kept in the finest order, and gives a re- 

 fined impression of the house it leads to. No underwood is 

 seen from this drive, but great masses of the common Brake 

 afford fine furnishing and cover for the deer, which, with 

 sheep, graze up to the haU door. Nothing m the form of 

 garden or pleasure gi'ound is seen from the approach, but in 

 passing from the entrance-hall to the drawing-room we at once 

 look over a picture as new to us in character as it is strikingly 

 beautiful, and which our feeble pen can but poorly portray. 



Woodstock House (see page 462), is an unpretending buOd- 

 iug of the Grecian style ; it was built about 130 years ago 

 by Sir William Fownes, Bart., the great- 

 grandfather of the present owner. David 

 Binson, of Limerick, was the architect ; he 

 was a man of great abOity, and his designs 

 are weU knowni in the south of Ireland. 

 The site of Woodstock is fine and com- 

 manding, and is an extraordinaiy contrast 

 to the site of the old mansion. 



Su- William Fownes was married to a sister of the Earl of 

 Bessborough of that day, and this " Lady Betty " must have 

 been a great gardener, for we stUl find fragments of her 

 ancient garderdng and planting bearing her name. The large 

 Oak wood, about which we made some remarks, was called in 

 the days of " good Queen Bess " " the wood of great Oaks," 

 and with other lands had been granted to Edmund Butler, one 

 of the Ormond family. This wood and lands afterwards came 

 into the possession of Colonel Tighe's ancestors by purchase, 

 and so formed a compact part of this extensive and beautiful 

 residence. 



It is not only the garden that surprises as we look from the 

 drawing-room windows, but a great expanse of beautiful wooded 

 country, terminated by the rocky ridges near Wexford, more 

 than twenty miles distant. On the ,left of the river as far as 

 seen, stretching round the extended base of Brandon, is the 

 property of Colonel Tighe, and miles farther on to the river 

 BaiTow. Here is a position for the landscape painter to study 



