TREES 41 



The East Wall is largely 



With ivy canopied, and interwove 

 With flaunting honeysuckle MILTON ; 



but we also notice a typical plant of the Moonseed, 

 Menispermum canadense, with its large handsome foliage and 

 horseshoe or crescent-shaped carpels, whence it takes its 

 name. A Wistaria sinensis has monopolised a large portion 

 of the wall and forms a striking object in the spring, from 

 the profusion and magnitude of its pendent clusters of blue 

 papilionaceous flowers. Before the severe winter of 1860 a 

 Judas Tree, Certis siliquastrum, flourished for thirty years 

 against this wall. Its purplish-pink flowers generally appeared 

 a month later than Easter, the proper date according to its 

 fabulous reputation as the tree upon which Judas Iscariot 

 hanged himself. 



In the shrubbery on the right are the Hornbeam, Carpinus 

 betulus, a tree indigenous to the chalk of Oxfordshire (Druce), 

 Staphylea pinnata, the Apple, Pyrus ma/us, and a large Pear- 

 tree ; and in the south-east corner of the Garden a note- 

 worthy Weeping Ash, with a perfect tangle of contorted 

 branches which have actually grown into one another where 

 they cross. This tree is no doubt a descendant of the original 

 found near Wimpole in Cambridgeshire in the middle of the 

 eighteenth century, which has been propagated by grafting on 

 stems of the Common Ash. 



Proceeding by the walk along the South Wall we notice 

 an Austrian Pine, 9 ft. 9 in. in girth, and the North 

 American Ptelea trifoliata standing at the south end of the 

 Dog Walk, on either side of which have been planted elegant 

 Japanese Conifers and interesting varieties of Yews, Cypresses, 

 and other trees but as several of these are likely to grow 

 to a large size, they will have to be moved or herbaceous plots 

 must be sacrificed. 



Continuing along the South Walk in the shrubbery in 



