Septembee 29, 1888.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



349 



WEBBS' 



COLLECTIONS 



BULBS 



CONSIST OF THE FLN'E 



HYACINTHS, 



TULIPS, CROCUS, 



LILIES, SNOW- 



DROPS, ETC. 



From Mr. G. H. GREEN. 



Gardener to the Might Bon. 

 the Countess of Stamford, 

 Enville Hall : — » I never 

 saw any (Hyacinths) do 

 better or produce finer 

 fratnea: they were admired 

 by all who saw them." 



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(( 



EVERGREENS." 



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Inspection earnestly invited. 



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 100 Winter Aconites 



36 Star of Bethlehem 



14 Muscari botryoides 



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FOB 



Next Week, October 6, 



wm. BE 

 Published an Ink Photograph 



OF 



VIE Win the PUBLIC GARDENS, 



MADEIRA. 



SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1888. 



MOTE PARK. 

 HHHE Mote, as this place was formerly called 

 -t- is a very ancient site. There are two 

 motes in Kent, and many others elsewhere, and 

 although some of these are mis-spelt and derive 

 their names from the moat that surrounded them, 

 others, like the one I am about to describe near 

 Maidstone, trace their origin to the Anglo-Saxon 

 mote, an assembly or court of justice, which used 

 to be held in the vicinity. The gardens of the 

 Dowager Lady Howard de "Walden, the present 

 occupier of Mote Park, are so extensive and inter- 

 esting that they will not leave me space for much 

 historical description. It must suffice to say 

 that in the time of Richard II. the Mote passed 

 from the family of Leyborne to that of Wood- 

 ville, one of whom was created by Henry VI. 

 Lord Rivers, Grafton and De La Mote. There 

 are few persons, perhaps, with such a minute 

 knowledge of history as to remember that 

 Elizabeth AVoodville, the daughter of this noble- 

 man, became the wife of Edward IV., and 

 afterwards his widow and mother of the young 

 princes who were murdered by their uncle, the 

 Duke of Gloucester, in the Tower. But the play 

 of Richard III. will recall to mind the sad 

 history of the AYoodvilles. Many persons doubt- 

 less will remember that Lord Rivers was executed 

 at Pomfret by that general murderer, King 

 Richard, and that his ghost was one of the 

 dozen that Richard's " coward conscience " called 

 up on the night before the battle of Bosworth. 



After several changes of ownership the Mote 

 passed in 1690 into the possession of the Mar- 

 shams, whose representative, Sir Robert Marsham, 

 was created Lord Romney in 1716. The third 

 Lord built the present square, capacious, white 

 house, whose east front is by far the best, because 

 it is most covered up by creepers. The third 

 Lord gave a great dinner to 3000 guests, in- 

 cluding that excellent farmer, George III., and 

 a number of the Kentish yeomanry. The festival 

 was held near the site of the old house, on a spot 

 where a pavilion has since been erected to com- 

 memorate it. The present owner of Mote Park 

 is the fourth Eaf 1 of Romney. It is a place of 



