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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



r Kovcmbor 7, 1866. 



side of the valley is the celebrated mountain called Mow Cop, 

 noted in history ; and on its summit, which is nearly HOO feet 

 above the sea level, is the old tower around which has gathered 

 many a jovial pic-nio party. Behind me is a range of hUls 



that take their rise at the Cloud, a fine dome-shaped hOl about 

 two miles east of Congletou, and from which south-eastward 

 rise the rocky ridges about Biddulph, Knypersley, Brownedge, 

 &c. By my side stands the ancient Hall of Biddulph, built by 



PinnE excclea. 



"Wellinptonia gigantea. 



Finu8 excelsa- 



1. Calceolaria Auvea floribunda. 



2. Verbena Pui^le Kiug. 

 8. Geranium Stella. 



4. Geranium Alma. 



5. Calceolaria Aurea floribunda. 



6. Calceolaria Victor Emmanuel. 



7. Lobelia Paxtonil. 



Francis Biddniiilic in the fifteenth century, and now in the 

 possession of Mr. .James Bateman. As I staud and gaze on 

 the scenery for a few moments, I cannot hel]) thinking of the 

 bloody straggle which here took place, according to the stray 

 relics of history aud tradition, more than two liundi-ed years 

 ago, when the Hall was defended by the royalists. The Pro- 

 tector placed hia large guns on the hill adjacent, but being 



8. Troiiaolum Lobbianum elc^ans. 



9. The outer row next to the Box edging. 



Cerastium tomentosmn ; next this 

 Lobelia speciosa ; ami the centre 

 filled with yellow and white-edged 

 Geraniums alternately. 



unable to accomplish his work of destruction at such a dis- 

 tance, he was comijelled to cross the valley with his staff and 

 take up his position on a more f.ivourable spot on Troughstoues, 

 a high eminence, one of the ridge of hills just named. From 

 this point he demolished the Hall, and the Royalists finding 

 they had no chance of success, siu-reudered to Cromwell's army. 

 I now pursue my course onward into the valley, and cross 



