June, 1914 



THE CANADIAN HOETICULTURIST 



149 



Cottesmore Hall, Cobourg, Ont., One o( an Increaaing Number of Suburban Mansion* in Canada —Fig. 1 



The Gardens of Cottesmore Hall, Cobourg, Ont. 



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NOT very far from the gardens of 

 Bagnall Hall, Cobourg, a descrip- 

 tion of which appeared in the 

 January number of The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist, lies the beautiful residence and 

 gardens of Mr. Wallace H. Rowe, the 

 president of the Pittsburg Steel Com- 

 pany. All that the ingenuity of man 

 ould acomplish has been done to make 

 his residence a palace, the grounds 

 fairy-haunted glens, and the gardens 

 veritable wonderlands. Bounded on the 

 south by the old Kingston Road ; on the 

 west by Cottesmore Avenue and on the 

 east by a meandering creek which flows 

 from the Baltimore hills out into Lake 

 Ontario, the whole vista is so pleasant 

 that one has to be quite strong-willed to 

 drag oneself away. 



The Hall itself is built most substan- 

 tially of cut Kingston stone, the frontage 

 l>eing one hundred and sixty two feet. 

 In figure one a good view of it is ob- 

 tained. The bush hydrangea in the right 

 foreground, the weeping ash and maples 

 also show well in this cut, which gives 

 the .south west aspect. The front en- 

 trance from Kingston Road has massive 

 hammered iron gates with heavy lamps, 

 flanked by maples. It opens invitingly 

 into an avenue of more maples that are 

 in excellent keeping with the rest of the 

 estate. These gates were made by the 

 Canada Foundry Company, weigh quite a 

 few tons, and cost several thousand dol- 

 lars. Part of the finer work on them 

 required two or three years to accom- 

 plish. 



Most of the trees shown in the illus- 

 trations have been in the hands of the 



T. S. Hall-Abell, B. Sc, Cobourg 



dentist. All rottenness has been remov- 

 ed, and all holes filled. They look good 

 enough to stand for centuries. 



The driveway is made on the Telford 

 Road system. The other paths are mac- 

 adam on ten inches of crushed stone. 



Figure two is the clay tennis court — 

 originally the upper half of the vegetable 

 garden — enclosed by a cedar hedge, and 

 surrounded again by lilacs, high bush 

 cranberries and bush honeysuckles. In 



the background of this illustration and to 

 the left are the stables, to the centre the 

 poultry house and to the right the tool 

 house, while two beautiful English white 

 hawthorns also show up well to the right 

 of the willows. This photograph was 

 taken from the nursery window in the 

 rear of the house, and the view is due 

 north. 



In figure three we see part of the for- 

 mal garden laid out in double Maltese 



The Clajr Tennis Court With Border of Shrubbery— Fig. 2 



