90 



very curious seed pods. 



In a bed to the right of the large Yew trees is a nice 

 plant of Erica arborea. This is sweetly scented when in 

 flower, and is the shrub from which briar-root pipes are 

 made, the word briar being a corruption of the French 

 Bruyere, referring to the district where they are made. It 

 was brought from France by John James Robert the VII 

 Duke, about 1 892. On this bank farther west is a tall tree 

 of Cupressus Lawsoniana, planted by His Majesty King 

 Edward VII in 1866. It is now 44 feet high. A smaller 

 tree of Cupressus Nootkatensis, on the right, was planted by 

 H.R.H. Princess Louise in 1894. A young Scotch Fir 

 lower down the bank was planted by John James Robert, 

 VII Duke of Rutland, in 1901, in memory of his nephew, 

 Mr. Fitzalan Manners, who died on his way out to the 

 South African War. 



The terrace walls above this part have many very inter- 

 esting plants growing on them. On the lowest is a fine plant 

 of the blue- flowered Abutilon vitaefolium, sent by the late 

 E. J. Lowe of Shirenewton Hall. It flowers in most years, 

 but sometimes gets damaged in winter by severe frost. It was 

 planted in 1896. On the left of this is a good plant of 

 Prunus triloba the double pink Japanese Plum. This flowers 

 early in the year before the leaves appear, and is usually 

 quite full of its beautiful flowers. It requires a warm place if 

 grown outside in this country. On the left of this is a very 

 beautiful crimson flowering shrub Berberidopsis corallina ; 

 farther on to the right is a plant of the single yellow Bank- 

 sian Rose, kindly sent by the late Sir Thomas H anbury, 



