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CHILLINGHAM CASTLE. Chillingham is on a ridge of land nearly 

 1,000 feet above the sea in a rocky moorland district, intersected by 

 deep and beautifully wooded glens. The illustration shows but a 

 small part of the handsome terrace garden, with its beautiful retaining 

 wall 1 20 yards in length, the wall a picture, with Clematises hanging in 

 festoons, with Ivies, Vines, the climbing Hydrangea, and Pyracantha ; 

 in front of the wall a long border was planted with some of the best 

 hardy flowers. The flower beds, although somewhat too angular, are 

 of sufficient size to permit of bold grouping, and this is so well done 

 that the form of the beds is less seen, and the blending of the colours 

 of the many flowers is well carried out. Many hardy plants are here 

 well grown, wild Roses and hardy Fuchsias give height and boldness 

 to the arrangement, and the terrace on summer and autumn days is 

 gay with fine colour. The wall at the end of the terrace, which is 

 partly overhung with trees, has its face in a great part hidden by a 

 lovely veil of maiden hair spleenwort. From here, ascending a flight 

 of rough Moss-covered steps, Grass slopes adorned with trees make 

 pleasant shade, and we pass on to the south front of the castle, which 

 has a broad gravel walk in the foreground and a lawn that merges 

 into the park and the adjoining pastures. 



WlLTON. One of the glories of Wilton is its fine Lebanon Cedars, 

 the tree having been extensively planted here at the time of its first 

 introduction, and although later years have witnessed a great thinning 

 of its ranks, enough remain to form the most prominent feature of the 

 place. The Wilton Cedars are older than those at Goodwood or 

 Warwick, and although mighty ones have fallen, some still remain, 

 whilst numerous young ones are growing up to take the place of those 

 that fall victims to the storms. Whilst the present wise policy of 

 frequent planting is continued, there will be no break in the history of 

 this tree at Wilton. The finest old specimen has a grand bole about 

 15 ft. up to the point of branching and of fairly even diameter 

 throughout its length of main stem, which girths fully 24 ft. A stem 

 of greater girth entirely enshrouded in Ivy stands near by, the tree 

 having perished in a storm some years ago. A noble evergreen Oak 

 near the Cedars has a stem that girths 19 ft, and at one time it had a 

 head of branches spreading quite 100 yards in circumference, but a giant 

 Cedar in its fall broke away a large portion of this Oak on one side. 

 It is a magnificent tree in perfect health, and bids fair to grow out of 

 its present disfigured state. Near this tree, and on the west side or 

 library front of the house, is an Italian garden, and beyond it a long 

 vista terminated by a stone structure called Holbein's Porch. A fine 

 Chamaerops Fortunei stands near, this also being a plant out of the 

 first introduced batch. It has been outside for seventy years, is not 

 so tall as some younger specimens we have seen, but its stem is 

 unusually thick and denotes great age. 



