g40 EXOTICS m CORNWALL. 



Rhododendron grande. 



Hodgsoni. 



lanceolatum. 



Maddeni. 



niveum. 



Nuttallii. 



Eoylei. 



Thomsoni. 



VeitcManum.. 



Wightii. 

 Ehyncliospermuni jasminoides. 

 Solanum jasminoides. 

 Sophora tetraptera. 



At least three generations of the Tremaynes, of 

 HELIGAN, 

 have been noted horticulturists. That they have done their 

 work well, a walk over the grounds will clearly prove. Every- 

 where you come on the finest of foreign vegetation smiling under 

 their new surroundings. A specimen of Chamcerops excelsa 

 planted by Mr. J. Tremayne forty or more years ago is now over 

 twenty feet in height. Hedychiums have been grown in the open 

 a great many years, and have fruited. Berberidopsis eorallina is 

 perfectly hardy, and Lapageria rosea never fails to put on an 

 abundance of flowers each autumn. What the country has to 

 thank Heligan mostly for is the introduction of Benthamia 

 fragifera, the first British plant being grown at that place 

 seventy-two years ago by Mr. J. H. Tremayne, from seed brought 

 from Nepaul by Sir Anthony Buller. When the hundreds of 

 trees which line the drive are in full bloom, no finer sight can 

 be imagined. 



Latterly horticultural operations at Heligan have been 

 largely under the management of Mr. John Claude Tremayne. 

 In common with his neighbours, Mr. Tremayne has been strongly 

 smitten with the Bamboo craze, and he has already secured 

 specimens of a great many varieties. It only remains to be 

 added that, for obvious reasons, the many scores of rare bulbous 

 plants, orchids, &c., which are established at Heligan must be 

 excluded from a list of the exotics there grown : 



