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JOURNAL OP HOBTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GAKDENER. 



I August 21, IWa 



foliage. There are seven entrance lodge-gates to the park, all 

 opening to roads leading to the house, and through or close 

 to those woods. 



Those roads, all gracefully winding through the well-kept 

 turf of the park, are open to the public four days in each week 

 — Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. Visitors to 

 Beaumaris fully appreciate this rcost pleasant and beneficial 

 privilege, and the townspeople would do the same if they were 

 deprived of it. Other towns struggle hard to obtain a park, 

 and raise monuments, as at Chester, in honour of the man who 

 confers upon them the costly enclosure — for costly it is to keep 

 well furnished and cultivated ; in Beaumaris the townspeople 

 have a park entirely gratuitously. 



We entered at the lodge gate nearest the woods at the park's 

 northern boundary, and here and throughout a half-mile walk 

 we were surprised as well as pleased with the intense green 

 and vigorous growth of every species of evergreen in the avenue 

 through which we passed, and which crowded on both our 

 right hand and our left, except where, on the latter side, open- 

 ings are judiciously left to allow of views of the Menai Strait 

 and the Carnarvon mountains beyond. Laurels, Evergreen 



Oaks, Portugal Laurels, Conifers, are alike luxuriant and of 

 perfectly balanced growth ; the latter character being preserved 

 to them by the high ground and deciduous woods, which shield 

 them from the prevailing and most powerful winds, which here 

 are from the S.W. 



Among the Conifers growing by this road and scattered about 

 the grounds are the following, all planted about nineteen or 

 twenty years since — 



Girth of tnmjc at 



3 ft. from soil. 

 4ft. Sin. . 



ft. 



Pinus excelsa 33 



ponderosa 45 



austriaca 35 



Abies Moriada 35 



canadensis 24 



Cedrus atlantica 32 



Deodara 35 



Libani 

 Cryptomeria japonica . 

 Araucaria irabricata . . . 

 Cupressus macrocarpa. 

 * Wellingtonia gigantea . 



* Planted in 1858 out of a T-ineh pot. 

 There are also some good specimens of the following 



-Thu- 



C I C 



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References to Plan. 



A, A, Gravel walk. 



1. Kbododendrons and Azaleas. 



2, 2. Enslish Yew. 



3, 3. Herbaceous plants. 



4. Rose bed. 



5. Stella Geranium. 



6. Calceolaria floribunda. 



E, Summer house. 



c, c. Grass plot. 



7. Diaderaatum Geranium. 



8. Calceolaria Beauty of Montreal. 



9. Clipper Geranium. 

 10. Amy no;^^' Geranium. 



14, 14. Portugal Laurel, 10 feet by 10 feet. 

 15. Calceolaria amplexicaulis. 



D, Yew. hedge. e, Terrace. 



16. Ribbon border. First or front line. Crystal 

 Palace Lobelia; second. Calceolaria Aurea flori- 

 bunda ; third, Calceolaria Beauty of Montreal ; 

 fourth, Geranium Bijou ; fifth, Geranium Amy- 

 Hogg ; sbith and seventh. Dahlias of sorts. 



jopsis dolabrata, Cupressus Lawsoniana, Thuja gigantea, Picea 

 Pinsapo, P. Nordmanniana, and many others too numerous to 

 mention. 



The following are a collection of Hollies, among which are 

 some good specimens — Waterer's Gold, Perado, balearica, 

 Gracier, Handsworthii, Angularia, Marginata, Altaclarense, 

 Silver Queen, Bronze, Ovata, Donningtoniensis, llyrtifolia, 

 Hodginsii. Weeping on Stemx. — Yellow-berried, Spinosa, Argen- 

 tea variegata, and many others. 



One Sweet Bay we saw is 3.5 feet high, and the diameter of 

 the space covered by its branches 20 feet. A Portugal Laurel 

 is 15 feet high, with 20 feet diameter of branches ; and a 

 common Laurel 16 feet by 10 feet. 



The road by which we entered might be named appropri- 

 ately the Terrace Eoad, for terrace it is throughout, carved 

 out of the rocky hillside. Seats for visitors to rest on are 

 fixed at intervals opposite openings admitting views of the 

 scenery ; and midway between the lodge and the mansion is a 

 little chapel protecting the sarcophagus of Princess Joan. It 

 is of stone, 4 inches thick, shghtly ornamented ; is 5 feet 

 H inches long, 18 inches wide at the greatest breadth, and 

 10 inches deep. An inscription placed above it states that it 

 contained the remains of Princess Joan, a natural daughter of 



King John, and consort of Prince Llewelyn ap lofwerth, and 



that she was interred about the middle of the thiifteenth cen- 

 tury at Llanfaes Friary, a religious house of Franciscan Friars, 

 founded by her husband about two miles from Baron Hill. 

 After remaining there for nearly two hundred years it was 

 removed and placed in a field hard by, where it sers'ed as a 

 watering-trough for cattle. From thence it was removed not 

 many years since by command of the late Lord Bulkeley, who 

 had it placed where it can now be seen. On another slab the 

 following lines are inscribed — 



*' Blessed be the man whose chaste and classic mind 

 This unassuming monument designed ; 

 Rescued from vulgar use the scnlptnr'd stone. 

 To breathe a moral o'er tby ashes, Joan; 

 To show mankind how idle is the aim 

 To thirst for relics, or to strive for fame ; 

 To teach them too to watch life's fleeting day, 

 Nor grasp at shadows which soon pass away ; 

 For nature tells us in angelic breath. 

 There's nothing certain in this world but death." 



An additional interest attaches to this sarcophagus, because 

 Joan was the mother of the child which, tradition says, was 

 the cause of the death of that greyhound whose place of burial 

 at the foot of Snowdon is so well known at Bed-GeUert. King 

 John had given to Joan's husband that greyhound, whose 



