Srrrmwsmm 9, 1864) THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 847 
forked or ramose, bat E then, as wel as|en gine ering, towards Caernarvon, must have observed | — —— it. can only be a failure; and if flower 
the frond itself, blunt and me at the &pex,|orn the right hand, just a ning leaving the pretty | little | are reed : is certainly a great m nt to have 
and the pinnules set close, —— called A. F.f. | church of Llanvair, a line ^. sses as are general in this charming 
Tieldio di ffiiuths «f ith the broad base and contracted | inibs in length, occupying rh danke hunger fall more garden, a or to. lavo flowers fike those 1 rot "the Splendid 
oo of Fieldix, ens the in deep open cutting | or less precipitately towards the r, consisting of | v 
which characterises the variety. diffüssum, and is thus} magnificent trees principally of rob, Beech, and they attain € ordinary cultivation, 
altogether unlike the preceding, in which the part; | e, the remains, doubtless, of the ancient forest 
rather full and erowded : both of them being moderately | from? which Anglesea took its na ywyll, 
vigorous in habit. F.-f. Frizellie cpm has st its impenetrable darkness, wood, whic! Mi s 
sturdy fronds a foot long, but otherw cept in its | extends nearly to the Church of Llanedwen, i - broken x pi 
blunt apex, doit nof differ from the rtoetully arching | |in the midst by a green slope on which stands the| Windsor Vorest.—The date at which it was 
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parent Frizelliæ we while A. F.-f. Applebyanum retains | noble mansion of Plasnewydd, the qoperty of the| fenced in is unknown. It was inclosed long before 
this arching habit, but be een : at the| Marquis of Anglesea, but for many years the residence | the time of Eliza -= th, On December 9, 1564, that 
apex, forking into a broad flat head of some 10 to 16 | of the Dowager Lady Willoughby de Broke, to whose | Queen sent strong orders to the — — : — n 
E age ; and A. F..f. Iveryanum unites the forking | taste alope the beautiful garden to which we are going | Solicitor General, to direct au Earl of 
of Fieldie with the stiff blunt-ended habit of | to call the attention of our = owes its attraction. | Sussex, Chief Justice in Eyre, to por a s nck for 
Frizellio nanum, All these and perhaps others we| ‘This property formerly bore the na ws of Llwyn y | redressing wey owes the Forest. This Chief 
have overlooked, have sprang 2. n Mr. Ivery’s| Moel, derived probably from the curious Druidical| Justice in Eyre was an importan preter generally 
nurs red from a sowing of Fri p and uaa tumulus which is one of r- ruti pointa s of interest, | some rie appointed by the Crown, to hear and 
ong the specimen plants, which it m noted} This mount, which bears Bryn yr Hén| determine all complaints tegen umet within € he Forest, 
are not eu put y farther bein M mostly in At 10- | Bobl, or Hill of the Antius People, i is laid bare on the | and Vall "eitis of purchases, rties, and privileges. 
ine er mention of Lad erns, A. F- t xposin a most curious chamber the objec obs 
Gra tee - t ef Ard Py porated ese in George the — "Phird's ni the last 
a 1 es and pinnae; A. Ff. g ti bable who held it being Mr. Granville, who h 
with ac acted base and gront Toe Leg head, that foarte ae on may lead to f. * not performed any duty, except granting licences for 
g f. fiss sidens, to be one, E o passages leading > | shooting, for 40 years previously. Until the year 
from the cist * This iaa is shaded by one or $40 fine| 1817, the Forest was simply an open common 
pinnz; A. F. t croatia another wei n with Small Oaks, whi ch ate recor rded a having most piene d over which the m had gp rat s timber and 
lower pinne nd a fi » Mistl leto 1 imber such as grew 
gran ndie ceps, for } is correct, there i$ no trace of the parasite now. aturally, i in a wild nncaltivated 3 site jene for the 
be spreads ee more tus a coronet; A, F.-f. eee The moth nd is not the only wee remain which de eer and destroyed by the co ers. Accordingly; 
4 a fine velty, such as mig ht come _ fro om the demands notice, for near the house is a most perfect and | v of the old Forest una re y sound or valuable ; 
: ^ n of a ve magnificent ouble argilo; E larger of which con- - ugh we did indebted to this system for he 
dip (ho ftond corte in a lar gies lobular sists of an enormous itis of stone more than 12 feet merous picturesque trees. Even over tbat part in 
head of finely-cut cri ispy segments, and the pinne being | long and broad, and 4 feet thick, supported o originally | w whieh 1 the deer were kept: there were > complica cated te e 
also crested in a similarly dense manner. Passing by five biam or which m huie fallen, and close to it -n 
other Species, Polystichum aculeatum acrocladon may | a smaller one of near 6 feet a nh ed by three | the right of cutting browse-wood. Ap. cm right E 
as it sh hould se an e rig: 
— crested at the 2 apex "of both. frouds and pinne ; Pee wood itself moreover is of consi sider eats ha botanical property i in the soil itself. Then there were many man 
if interest, containing at least one rare Fern, while g 
"T a pe not prone to vary, and having the pro- | trees afford in profusion rare Mosses, such as "Prerok go ight of und od, tl zi 
crines qe oe so e Res AN in the analogous | rium Smithii and Neckera pumila, while the soil is in | Of] of pltrage à and other r similar righta ts. The Constable of 
of angulare, be content with | places adorned with the lovely Hookeria lucens. bem qe mer ir of í protecting then rown 
farther speiying Lastrea m efus Nowelliana; Blech- The lawn, which descends abruptly from the house to | “vert,” or. “bro 7? the Lord Chief 
num Spi mbricatam, pros and projesam ? | the sea wall, and which even in the pe dry season | Ju stice in n By, e owe " of ye osecuting all offen a 
Osmunda regalis cristata; Lastr a Filix-m: — is beautifully green, has most judiciously been left | — forest hv, accused of wood-stealing or 
and cristata angustata, L. F.-m. Bo lando, dad er unornamented, the mms mountain view extending | inclosing, i with the power of granting licences 
the latter yere odd-looking from its density and dwarf from the Rivels to those beyond Aber, needing nothing for shootin: The commoners — to eut turf for 
ess; Ath F.-f. plumosum. and co. eoryutifarita ; whatever to draw off the attention. A seat which | fuel; pasturage in summer for as any animals as they 
ium mr FALaro om ovp one of the best of the | commands a full view of. iper with m Glyder could keep in winter on their dern grazing for geese ; 
tifid Poly gare looking up — Pass of sates ai is agn accordingly and, further, helped themselves to everything which 
another finé and Bof vaety ed in the way of] at the entrance o -— and is vouri D esort they could possibly appropriate. If they had small 
semilacerum ; both the Woodsias ; with As pleniu m fon- for those Who hav a pe m mde ing on the|pieces of freehold adjoining any the open 
E outline of these distant Eis, which present wit. pe common, they had a simple but i 
e also noticed young, plants of tha very chang e of atmosphere a fresh object of interest, The extending them at the 
innules of roun eh redit aces a e e R canal eee ae (ripetere unlike | their owt land, uni 
X «f. Victorite, the Queen S Mee which hasthe tacet won woods are without a particle of formality, f niie the cd carried out their 
pin ei at the base, and is everywhere crowne yy could see no moral or le 
f is time, however, to turn to the gardens ai Hey old commoner 
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e store plants we? were most struck with | selves, which from their be auty vmi ki | eve, 60 years ago, m the S items we DN o tapping 
e poi T 'Asplenium se] ferme whole frame | The lawn, of which we have just s and a E = d Elder wine—a 
full, the plants as even as if. manufactured, as vigorous | front of the ad is perfectly "weg T e extends in | immemorial and still “kept upahe cial: all night 
* if os on Pomon — altogether presentin g the direction of the tubul lr Adds which, with the Jong i in the bright peres A and had a quarter of ant 
a picture but w a simi E br uffiee it | ad bomi] rein forms an esting o objec t, and is | acre to his land before the morning. M 
therefore to pay, à pict bs Tos ^ would delight the deepl yi into the wood aes as to leave the bles | nights were the season for such and similar operations. 
heart of a Fern These p in pv from ificent trees perfectly eienn os and to | Ifa commoner could only build himself a hut of turf, 
their vigour and their r symmetry, an appearance 80 tiful t to th | and have a fire lighted and a pot boiled in the rudest 
unlike what this Jittle Spleenwort generally bears m ae part of ne lawn is studded with various songs chimney, the hut became established as a h 
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uration that for a momen we were nouplussed. hich in en of colour are more brilliant. ted n any- | fact his “castle,” and was then wholly unassailable 
were told the ae had ^ been h we hav s see m elsewher iir where tall plants except by regular process of law, which tbe Forest 
establishment, and were in this way found to grow |li e Gladi oli sed, the soil is conce aled officers frequently declined to institute. If, however, 
dil yr t t effect by. the pot had not boiled, the forest officers mi 
native rocks. ` This, we observe i in passing, is legitimate little “plant like apos calabrica, _ These brilliant proceed without ceremony to pull the house down, 
cultivation, v show! aa g i 1 such cus 
others who sre ready to receive, even though i it bewithan | Grasses, which have an excellent effect. cs to ave passed away. oners were norge 
open pocket, thestrippingsof any wild habitat, Asplenium house a hedge ‘of Rens of er on luxuriance, ex- | much given to Šer stenting 1 piviur ag the 
fontanum and Polystiehu: i reared in the same Ende a towards a bub v ery pretty conserva es substantial rene nt s — ier ai Li which 
way, were ely owing and seedlings of Woodsia | the base of which 3 ho vered with Clematis montana, | When found on rely punished, 
alpina in strong force, owed themselves quite at | except in the centre, where the flight of steps leading | They e vasb peritum of Wine, which were turned 
omeamong the Surrey hills Ari thos plants, andother | into the interior is covered by a curved parapet, sur- out i the Forest. One of these men could spi 
varieties a a doubt, may thus be obtained in | mounted by mandi n urns, containing beautiful cain yarns about the good old times, He had been 
fi ores, and with better TUR of | masses,pf flowers so much among pigs that he regarded them with 
spec if gathered Er front of this the ground i cular affection, and seemed to understand every 
"ie it is to be hoped that Fern growers, who are | leading down to the sloping lawn just sentiooel, with | Ste e of their movements. “The pigs," he said, on one 
increasing in numbers, will d vum ned in ew to do all | ELA riban consisting flo ccasion, “are like us, for they will ate amost 
Can to encourage suc legiti mode of | Gazania, blue Lobe clin Flower of the Day Pelargonium, anything ; and yet they are different too, for if you 
; and to discourage to the: Tr dina “the iy acf ar Qalceolék ia amplexicaulis, in ihe whole of which | put a lot o" A afore a pig he'll YT take the 
tion of our rarer OTT the few places in which | not a single failing plan eri dn of first ; but when I gets i i 
M T Them in a state of nature, Tobe indoc-|on the consist of flowers inlaid in | I likes ale sal Sanat run Hick and taf pu 
jour Du sos idea, if for nothing else, is Wolk à e amental Box, s which flourishes in os ettet wards, n As was 2 
lant End Dorking, even though it were from the snd which in the upper terrace is disposed in scroll. how 
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es those already mentioned, there wer fection with which the | aint a move but they’re up to; and when you want them 
sore piis fne healthy batches of the s folovin mu So is CSAR ae brightness of its | home ee are an aggrawatin 1 
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tum, and projectum, all well-m: ied QU while | s | such grates cinder Mem favoured climate, ne’er a pictur ever hangs in a man rs impe ne as Siquis 
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in he evra We think that scroll-work has ga aue uch | a gam of bacon hung up himne 
di als ito follow in succession, | neglected from a noon g ‘its being to ficial. “ti is | oid man and two others are t the ale survivors of a - 
bá owever, more cial than el "wore, or, | Which in a few I wil be extinct in this part of 
, Brásemwenn indeed, than the reip yatom in n general, and it has vg caa ec org is 
OLYSEA.--Every one who passes|the great merit of being beautiful in winter as well as Wasps.— is no sweet without a bitter. E — 
Wn the Menai Straits from the Votiletul — in summer, Everything 4o aed depends upon parity | B eemaster feels ‘the plague of wasps this autumn 9 
: hideo, one of the greatest trium) phs of perfect cultivation, | 1864 ; for 15 years, the rang e of my experience as 
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