

CASTLE KENNEDY 



tricts, attracts attention from every arboriculturist. 

 A double avenue of Auracarias shows how much 

 these archaic trees gain by company of their own 

 kind ; or, rather, how much they lose by being 

 isolated. Self-sown seedlings spring up freely under 

 these monkey-puzzles ; other conifers which propagate 

 themselves very readily, where ground game does not 

 come, are Abies nobilis and Webbiana. 



But after all, our concern is more with the 

 garden and flowering things than with forest trees. 

 Miss Wilson has planted her easel where the two 

 are inextricably blended, a bank of azaleas backed 

 by some aged evergreen oaks, which, by a lucky 

 chance, escaped the doom prepared for the rest of 

 the woodland by Hobblin' Jock. The water in the 

 foreground is M'Alla's " bason lik a great glas." 



The most remarkable feature, however, at Castle 

 Kennedy is the vast number of choice rhododendrons, 

 including many that are not usually reckoned 

 hardy. There are hundreds of R. arboreum, 

 cinnamomeum and campanulatum, chiefly white and 

 pale-tinted, with which the glorious scarlet of R. 

 barbatum and Thomsoni contrasts with almost startling 

 effect. Rose and carmine are supplied by other 

 varieties of R. arboreum and by its hybrids, while 

 R. niveum supplies a note of deep mauve, with 

 which, later in the season, one's eye is apt to be 

 surfeited when the common R. ponticum is in bloom. 

 To see this matchless display in perfection, the first 

 week in May is generally the best time. But go 



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