THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND MARA ENAA GAZETTE. 723 
Jory 30, 1864] 
Christ's 
rist 
f by J shelter and almost surround the By b eing probably 
of of Dauntsey, in in the county a Ky pn "ls exacti 28 pu | elevated in this way the — plant a a course more | Thorn in jj country ; wh er Tal and um» dong the 
s abe! "Du was Mr. William H. Bax easi ined, n other advantages. | front of the buildings Jaborosa. integrifolia, the Wall 
T e n | i itish plants "a. cae be kept long in Mandre ing r appear 
of the author of “ Baxte r's British. "Phsncgamons bec “ee Seine? in the garden, are here allowed gregariously ; with Lavatera Olbia, a showy Malvad in 
ile i warm corner; E 
y -— a 
Though arden i is “now in e charge of Mr. l d 
a cie auth E of the fine ae ast mentioned i is | grows all ro ound the poté, ke alpines, e i een t mm li sasa 
th f his more than half ¢ I > j 
at a — : s though o h long r^ retired from t the | as it is more verdant, than col <n Sempervivums, turned e Bagh nig i 
ratorship, he “> tends a few fav ourite British — Well, m n this bench were of great|appeared, with a Dasylirion eet across standing 
takes loris, g care of the vas Kahen but bee. half a caes fine pots of | amongst them. On the next wall Ephedra monostachya, 
fully were te the charms et a new Fern, em m" C ypripe ediu m spectabile, iet past its best; but yet more tho. E aires V Hoe ain er $i im a apd 5 en: i 
d then add work to his own library, of which | beautiful y of the sp yle, 
Toaloe says, E juetalaly it is by far the mt complete|exhibited at our shows are tn ^ ja t ena y ith here reand qn seme border you! frie thing 
i i iti M t Orchis foliosa; why |in a s i-wild ] ^ zdal i 
ve n the possess a ritish | Williams and'others — v^ » fine plants | croppe «ar out of the wall at intervals, and in other 
w out of i 
^? and which now numbers " not.some exhibitor surpri j 
tion: species* in a lar rgo pob of ro uat 
Parnassi 
umes 
pall from such a len ngth of labour! 
If the familiar saying, that a man who plants Gaultheria. Nummularia, seen for the 
thén Mr. Bax may count that his days have|a fine new plant; the indis ensables -Sedum i- L I A 
M e ye 1 sefully, y. daily does he walk under | fragas, ue. Semperv itina eit very hun / rare | bushes ; a beautiful large white-flowered Allium, 
uice specimens of his own planting. M - is reminds | British plants, in some cases fresh from their native | probably A. neapolitanum, appeared about the base of 
one of what flee — things we are. of wood,” | localities, and among them Dianthus Caryophyllus from | Wubi, py worth g 
and for a time * Lords of Croation,” d "plant the Rochester Castle; Helianthemum canum, polifolium, |On Wa oils; Dentaria pinnata; Salix anata, in 
tiny seed MM springs into a mighty organism of|and others; and many choice Alpines which I have great vigour; and n then a plant of Lathyrus 
almost iron strengt t its leaves all not t thorpii, a highly piunt early N ee hardy 
over our se rn a graves, But, why go : a tree to thei ir na Tiverlasting Pea, which has 8 been grown in the garden for 
GóntFes$ it with i fugacit; Pass int tothe A. the last 60 years, but is not yet much in cultivation 
“When we toin Lis paper; enu a rag like this, boive lars power! fale alluded and | elsewhere. On the walls in various parts may be found 
Survives himself, his tom s all = his?” turning rto d right » go r — A garden iU» a|Hieracium amplexicaule, Linaria vulgaris var. Palo 
The spot at which I took out my note book may not| border of Carices has a is seen, but the| Linaria purpurea, Erigeron acris, and Sedum dasy- 
have been the orthodox one ay a Deginting, but a more | wall looks s0 respo a "digi, and the | phyllum, in ser ion to the plants already mentioned. 
interesting one it could not -— It was ee rim n oñ | climbers seem s0 ‘of it, I must give Wm. Robins: 
the south side of the garden, about 50 feet long by 40 | it afew words. Bai T of large lae of eut stone, it is eee 
broad, outside of the massive walls which espe ee of great thickness and a eA oan fee dera having à THE PASSE CRASANNE PEAR. 
greater part of the latter in a square. The end e cornice on each side under an elevated 
part of the space is taken up by an oval Rice m in | Got copi “and forms," says Loudon, “the |q A wirrereeuted E ppe dee r a ge een web ird 
which hardy aquatics ate better managed in a small nobles garden ‘wall, speaking arekiteatuslly, w which we | xiv, t, 12), the sample represented rari a den deo 
space than 1 have seen them in any other én. The | haveseen in any co — It is iu perfect preservation, | depressed Stovate fruit, the produce of a young tree. 
water is always kept pute and at one height, by a con- | and likely to remain ven : rae i vw. s [at rer m According to the authority just quoted, t ice Passe 
brick radies in in it to within a few inches of the | which if it could write would certainly leave on record | a eck ihe Lalit of of grew wie te per ed 
irae , in each of which a robust species, | as decided an opinion of its “location” as Sek has | either grafted upon the Quince Pan n the fi aio k, 
such as ‘un. of the Typhas, is put; and thus the| done. It is impossible in this country to have a com- | and hitherto its fertility has - at th Pon ate 
rambling rampant things are kept very distinct. A | plete re without a good wall, and yet sone t Our|desired. Thé branches form a Kt iter vi 
step is placed round the inner margin of tlie tank, on | new and la establishments are almost completely | times évél a fipht átisble with qd ponet k; th ago 
which the smaller species growitg in pots may bestood. | deficient of such accommodation. Making way to the short, a nd often die E th : S Lis Maire 
Orontium aquaticum, a beautiful American water Arad, | Fern border, which runs along half the eastern side of | with ash.colour, and "ik d ar are "t Seta 
was doing finely, the pot being plunged rather deep. | the garden, a quantity of Equisetum Telmateia was | lenticular markin xs 1 a enmy-r 
This however I have never seen in such perfection| met with, of great height and beautifully branched. | saw.tooth n. * Q4 A ien it roundish- ine and 
as at Henfield—also the only place in which I | The plant was ee ed to run s «À the end ^ the | ți b ^ ith ern e flowers, before quite open, aré 
have seen the Canadian Rice flourishing. At Hen.| Fern border, and neither indoors nor out was there a "The Pe it la cage Vers of the petals. 
field too, Calla palustris was charmingly done | pla nt more ponies than some well-developed in- ls i aod e Renee ANU UOOA de 
in a deep cavity with a muddy bottom, shaded dividuals of this wilding! angulati ite skin is ti iekish, deop-green, dashed with iy 
iati i ses gem paf edi with brown ona 
shade when mature. 
which a stali " 
it T E and 5 feet straight along the soft mud, | collection, are fine! wn in a border “the he east i ; 
With à string of itè striking white spathes, and botl wall about 7 feet iy grown i "m aksar. kank by cr veo mnn epe Lee ri othe cir or ; 
these d the leaves of twice the usual € There are | the British trees and shrubs. regalis | The flesh is fine EM eats somewhat 
day banks ditches in most éo places in | cristata was very fine, and i it an m. oh and vigorous | so tow: b. the centre, mel ea n 
which tuis litle E of thie Nite” wedld Make w| pint, which bas iden in ot nearly 200 light briskness, and a melting, ja prs elt mith 
ng ali ater r I haven ndun de ee do | years, of the md Royal F of, With the American | period of turity is variable, axta mim dics vies 
well, o 1l, or the P ort oo ing at. By nare y, any anune enhn Struthiopteris penerivanien abundant | &i]] cn March. | g 
ives near the Rye House, Broxbourne, and and a v eet high. Splendid the ecordin most 
diii p^ =- gardens — at this season, will eties of Scolo d rium were "leni the red B c de urn Pun 2 it d MN UM, Bois- 
MES see several thousand plants of a very dne aa tic, | form of Athyrinns Ff. plumosum e size, bunel fils, Rouen, a gold medal from the Société 
atia ja latifolia ore leno, in flower there. [t isa| while A. F.-f. corymbosum was more ‘than pihe high. ay périale et Ci ehtialo d or The t 
perfectly hard d when growing in rich mud | Here and there on little stony knolls were excellent | i said, succeed in all situations ts In [e = 
with a little a a Very sta stately one. ihe deir, ed eset things as oer Asplenium doing “equally well in warm or cold exposur 
r r aquarium. m eve num, wi iel ere stood the winter of 1 
Peru d m snus M Maunatna to d S c e stoo fractum C weed, withstands wind perfectly, and last year, v boat 
amongst them Nuphar pumila, advena, and Kal miana ; regia; ; Aspidium Lonchitis; notwit tl t dry f tl 
Cicuta virosa, rarely seen doing wellin botanic gardens; |in diameter. All lovers of Fern » Oxford must sty Prk et: eoi ae eae 
Tiaa, grandiflora, and many P others of interest. uch enjoy a walk E a vr this "fine ern border, 
This xe is in Pe a with the g ae Bor ene the e P d Phong by no means River by its w 
t and 
il f the garden, 
e | the — € i FLOWER SHOWS. 
y & view may be h over m ont pem pro rarest Lom As the look t our floral exh: 
threagh the the garden, the eye first meeting 4 pair of | trees eat rol a of quite unusual age. e | ably rper be p pirita es Vite rS DUENUG a 
illars, beautifully capped and wreathed Y Glaston rey Thorn and the trne bir tree, Sors chiefly sought, it may dera be permitted to them to 
Prin and flowers, m one on each side of the ada ib pl avg icularly fine, the latter —- riget subject - the 
= d An i" main garden, : d. te toyona t thom "n igh. angem of plan "rr ; at 
wo ews, one on each side of thé walk, which ening in into d um among the British trees, one th be ita lay to 
were planted the elder Bobart, the first gardener, cow Impatiens Noli-tangere and I, fulv va | se the beh olde the exhibiton mà se create 
or a long time clipped into shape as a pait of orn 1^ rottdnadietint ‘example of a way t 
giant sentinels, These trees in d aer daya were known | have at Oxford of permitting a thing which sm not i o (o speak as ony se m o ha booom redire 
38 the * Yewmen Guard,” and were the “su ubject of | remain behind a label, and forget the bic secs law of | of the old t urface of dle bi "y the 
much rival wit in the University.” "leveral old ballads | Nature—change, to take its own w: congregate | long rows of these floral seni en eret procter 
them being preserved in the Ashmolean | on walls, in the Hie oe it "em A largo collection | in nature, it is with the xd Adhik. faith tha t the. -— 
f Ne for the summer, is | bility for something 
(consisting | ples of 
je ain walls bordered by trees and wp IE 
trees H 
towards the entrance ETT Lope Tre ap bo 
| of : o> bearer es pg e 
I believe also that pec - Journal, alw: 
; with me, may Zn a channel for disse 
i à natural pe ut E orti soie i 
from the : which it is|range is entrance gateway, the finest and most | will r service th to the exhibitor by 
h pr by th e High Street. Turning | interestin err of its Kind i in any British ^w perhaps | suggesting what is waned by tl the > iii, and so 
Coll e visitor looks ön Merton and Christ Cliürch | any other botanic garden. e first stone was laid in | leavin ng the exhibitor to supply the demand as best he 
ne Mey and toble piles; while to add right, | 1632 by the then Vice Chancellor of the University, can, s, 
Lib the dome of the Radeliffe and the gateway was subsequently completed under | our "requirements should t al, . 
m me fe ath and then the m Christ's poe h | the direction of Inigo Jones. On the right and left,-as | we must both remember that it is often "pa suggesting 
: i its fine old trees, almost runs up to the | the garden is entered from the High Street, a figure | an impossibility, ye possibility even more me d 
owed may be seen—one of Charles L, and the other of|geous is brought abot 
Charles IL, but from this op the vista down the In orde er to attain the end rpm it is important t o 
I ry age can give, pee A take their rise, bur | garden to our old standpoint, the Alpine and aquatic beauty, for, after all, 
: are yet more plants to be eet of from the little | oval, is so pretty that these gentlemen receive but little —— is the thing we want; and of these the first 
| aay point I hav orm bd oy paman rr e eyeaworship. ubtedly are colour ‘ond form. Next, to these we 
£r brick allied plants are ar. a series of Just inside this Danby Gateway, to the left, is pry have to — ae armony proportion, and ae ays 
er at LL IM T vide * This used to be "day Y Hardos— Bb. yav ou 
dis. 
variety. Colow alread v floral exbi- 
