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terials whose character is not strained, or divided by anything foreign to 

 their nature. Plants and flowers familiar to our childhood and associated 

 with the glowing dreams of our youth, here seem as much at home as in 

 the sunny glades of the bird-singing wood, the cottage garden, or the 

 ripening cornfields. Ferns, white and yellow broom, furze, bluebells, 

 foxgloves, large Scotch thistles, poppies, peonies, and a host of others, 

 contribute to the general effect." 



This would be easy and productive botanizing ground. 



The following is from our author's description of the park : — 

 " The botanist, too, may meet with many rare or interesting produc- 

 tions of Flora to reward his curioiis research. In the woods spring the 

 cuiious Helleborine {Epipactis latifolia), the pretty Bitter Vetch {Orohus 

 tuberosus), and the rare Leopard's-bane (Doronicum) " [this is rather an 

 imconunon sylvan plant], "contrasting beautifully with its bright yellow 

 stany flowers with the piu'ple Foxglove." [The Doroniciim that we know 

 is in flower months before the Foxglove : this is not often in flower before 

 June; The Leopard's-bane is an early spring flowerer.] "Geranium 

 pratense and Campanula latifolia, both among the handsomest of oui* wild 

 plants, may also be found in damp shady spots. In the park are some fine 

 ancient specimens of the wild Service-tree {Pyrus torminalis). Polypodimn 

 Dryopteris grows in the spring valley. Many examples of Aspidium, or 

 Shield Fern, abound in the woods." 



The readers of the ' Phytologist ' would read with delight a no- 

 tice of the Doronicum which grows wild in the woods of Trentham^ 

 especially if such notice contained all the circumstances connected 

 with the plant : for example^ the space it occupies^ the number of 

 distinct places where it grows, its past history (if known), when it 

 was first observed and by whom, whence it originated, and such- 

 like. The Editor would also thank Mr. Molyneux for a specimen 

 or two, in order to ascertain to which of our two British exam- 

 ples it belongs, or whether it be either the one or the other or 

 something else. While this small book on the hall, gardens, and 

 woods of one of the grandest of England's proud mansions is 

 warmly recommended, regret is hereby expressed that it has ac- 

 cidentally been so long overlooked. Every work sent to the 

 ' Phytologist,' be it small or large, is duly noticed in good time. 

 The omission of the present was an oversight, which, it is hoped, 

 will not again occur. This apology, as amende honoi^able, is of- 

 fered both to our readers and to the author of ^ Trentham and 

 its Gardens.' 



