1G0 RECOLLECTIONS OF A TOWN GAEDEN. 



do not know the name of i his elm, it is wry tall, and the branches 



grow in an upright direction, and do not spread far from the stem. 



The holes in the trunks afford places for starlings, 



and the dead boughs favourite perches for them and for jackdaws, 



ad young swallows. Besides the elms there are some 



very fine sycai I Ln ['articular which overshadowed the lawn, 



the ethers are in the far part of the moat called the "Hollow." 



Nothing to my mind is more pleasing to the eye than a well-shaped 



more in spring, with its leaves well developed, and covered with 



the graceful pendulous bios oms ; at the same time its appearance is 



lasily spoilt at that time of year by a gale of wind. 



A.t the extreme end of the garden, and near the path, grew three 

 or four very old larch trees, each consisting of a tall and straight 

 trunk, with a circle of boughs at the top, giving it somewhat the 

 appearance of an umbrella. One of these old fellows having been 

 blown down, sufficient wood was sawn out of the trunk to make a 

 fco h Id an V fair-sized hornbeam, an acacia, an 



ailanthus, a couple of maples, and some thorns about complete the 

 Lcgue of trees. The si.il is very suitable for thorn trees, and double 

 white, double pink, single r d, and other kinds were to be seen, 

 is, too, 'lid well; but most kinds of pines lost their lower boughs 

 after reaching a, certain age, and looked sickly. Austrian pines grew 

 slowly, hut succeeded the best. The soil is light and poor, resting at 

 no great distance on the Oolite rock ; and the air of a town not being 

 very suitable to . the late owner turned his attention more to 



flowering Bhrubs, so the garden was gay in spring and summer with 

 lilacs, laburnums, and G-ueld r Rose, besides othei*s, the names of 

 which I do not know, and which I have never seen anywhere ( 

 < me, which flourished and flowered well under trees, is called, I believe, 

 tic ( lanadian 1.' 



u wall is partly covered with different kinds of ivy, and 

 an elder has takeu root and projects at right angles from it, meeting 

 a thorn on the other side the walk. Wallflowers are plentiful, and 

 there is a single white pink, originally brought from Leeds Castle, in 

 b, and which is said to grow wild there, hut no white pink is 

 ribed in any British Botany book. It is fringed, and probably the 

 origi common white pink. The Creeping Toadflax, ( [.nutria 



Cymbalaria, ) House Leek. (Sempervivum tectnrum, ) and Boor Man's 

 Pride, (Sedum reflexum,) about complete the list of denizens of the wall. 

 At it - foot, as well as in the " Hollow," grew two species of the Borage 



family, < with bin ,1 Bowers, and rough leaves, I think 



thi I Inchusa sempervirens,) and the other also had 



at the tlow, is were whitish and tubular, the common 

 Comfrey, (Symphytum officinale.) Tic only other really wild plants 

 which obtained a footing, and are worthy of mention, were the great 

 lidonium majus ,) the Common Kailow,(Malva sylvestris,) 

 the Broad-leaved Willow Herb, ( Epilohium montanum,) and the Com- 

 mon A.vens, Geum urbanum. These flourished about the •■ Hollow," 



