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XXV.—THE ARBORETUM AT TREGREHAN, 
CORNWALL. 
W. J. Bean. 
There are between a dozen and twenty gardens whose fame has 
spread over the whole country, and whose names we have come to 
regard as synonymous with Cornish gardening. But amongst 
them few would include Tregrehan, the seat of the Carlyon family. 
It is, indeed, a curious circumstance that so little should have been 
in Cornwall a rhododendron is grown very like R. Falconer 
fe general aspect, but still in several characters and in time of 
Fidahates showing the influence of R. argenteum. It was not im 
ower at the end of March, but is considered to be a hybrid between 
sigs Me jes, ere is a noble bush at Tregrehan 18 ft. 
igh, with leaves up to 18 in. long. 
re hey stands out, I think, above all the Cornish gardens for 
¢ richness and health of its conifers. Of the better know? , 
trunk 6 ft. 8 in. in irth. Abs = : ae 
fev . tes Webbiana and its ally A. Pim 
row are good and ealthy (the former 40 ft., the laiter 28 ft. 
about ten years ago I fou ; nae 
; nd but a single small plant, which was 
in the gardens of Scone Palace, Bide they a Pe more trees have 
