NoTcmbor 5, 1874. ) 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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dom Been as at Carclew. Lasiandra maorantha — not an Orchid, 

 I need hardly remark — was subjected to a treatment different 

 from what it geueraUy fjets elsewhere. Occupying a lu-inch 

 pot, I understood it had been set out of doors to harden in 

 the early part of the summer, and was afterwards brought in 

 and placed against a wall, when it commenced to grow and 

 flower, and at the time of my visit was a mass of flowers, equal- 

 ling those of some of the violet Clematises, and occupying a 

 space against the wall quite 12 feet high by 9 feet wide, its 

 roots still confined to the 10-inch pot alluded to. Near it were 

 some fine Palms, as Seaforthia elegans, Sabal Blackburniaua, 

 Corypha australis, and others, not omitting the general fa- 

 vourite Latania borbonioa. Adiantum rhomboideum and tene- 

 rumwere also at home, both of which are prettier objects than 

 A. farleyense. We now come to some of the Orchids, and 

 found the Aerides very good, Angrsecum eburneum large and 

 evidently at no distant time to be well covered with bloom, 

 Dendrobium pulchellum in a basket very good, D. Pierardi in 



much the same condition, Cattleya crispa in a pan 2 feet wide 

 also very fine. Brass avola Digbyana, bright orange, while 

 creeping on a sort of cork slab was the interesting Sophronitis 

 oernua; in fact, Mr. Palmer had turned virgin cork to many 

 useful purposes ; and I may add for the information of intend- 

 ing Orchid-growers that he finds hving moss a better medium 

 to grow them in than dead. There are besides many noble 

 specimens of exotic Ferns, with flowering and fine-foliaged 

 stove and greenhouse plants too numerous for separate mention. 

 On emerging from one of the houses I was struck by a plant 

 often grown inside — Hedychium Gardnerianum, which was 

 freely luxuriating, and from G and 8 feet high ; I was told 

 it stood the winter with the protection of some ashes. More 

 hardy but not less beautiful were the Guernsey Lilies flowering 

 in great profusion, and in less-favoured places Fuchsias of tbe 

 white-sepalled class were vieing with the more hardy kinds in 

 furnishing their quota of flowers to assist in the general 

 display. 



Fig. 114. — Cahclew. 



The Grape houses, in the course of being renovated, looked 

 equally promising ; and the contents of the kitchen garden 

 presented the usual features of good cultivation. There were 

 some excellent Peaches, very fine Pears, and good-looking 

 Apples ; but I incline to the opinion that better-flavoured 

 Apples are grown nearer London, at the same time I should 

 Bay the Cornish ones are the finer-looking. I cannot conclude 

 this notice without alluding to what is an important matter in 

 aU garden estabhshmente, and that is the gardener's cottage; 

 in this instance Colonel Tremayne has built a very suitable 

 one for Mr. Palmer, one far better than is usually erected by 

 architects. — J. Robson. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE VIEWS OF CARCLEW. 



Fig. Ill, page 384, illustrates a part of the pleasure ground. 

 Tbe trunk of the tree so prominent in the foreground is a 

 Lucombe Oak, not the largest, but decidedly the handsomest. 

 On rockwork to the left can be seen a fine mass of Lomaria ma- 

 gellanica; and on looking across the large bed of Camellias and 

 Rhododendrons, an ancient Silver Fir that has been over 100 feet 

 in height. Dotted around this on grass are seen fine bushes of 

 Rhododendrons, &c., whOe on the right can be seen a portion 

 of an ornamental pond. On a terrace some 2o feet higher than 



this pond can be seen a block of glass erections, consisting of an 

 Orchid house, plant stove, and intermediate house for flowering 

 plants, &c. Still rising very rapidly can be seen something of 

 the kitchen garden, the wall most conspicuous dividing the 

 kitchen garden into two portions. The mass of foliage at the 

 back of the houses is produced by a wooded shrubbery, the 

 undergrowth being masses of Rhododendron ponticuni. 



Fig. 114 is taken from the end of the terrace next the kitchen 

 garden. The garden with the fountain and basin in the centre 

 is in front of a block of three houses ; the garden is geometrical, 

 consisting of twelve beds with borders at the sides, &c., on gravel, 

 the beds edf^ed with Box. The four beds through the centre in 

 line with the basin are carpet-bedded ; four others flanking the 

 basin are all planted alike with Geraniums, Calceolarias, Perilla, 

 and Lobelia. Outside these, and as it v.ere surrounding them, 

 are four other large beds, which are planted with herbaceous 

 plants, Ac, and a row of DahUas down the centre. In front of the 

 hothouse can be seen a mass of Belladonna Lily, Myrtle bushes, 

 &c. Besides the Pampas Grasses, in the angles of four herba- 

 ceous beds stand CoUetia bictonieusis and Hypericum oblongi- 

 folium. In the fountain basin are Limnocharis Humboldtii, and 

 Aponogeton distachyou. The terrace above is also a geometrical 

 garden of twenty-seven beds, with borders, on gravel, with Box 

 edging, and planted miscellaneonsly with annuals, Violas, &c. ; 



