March 23, 1912.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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hands that the Earl and Countess of Ply- niums are conspicuous. This garden, how- 

 mouth enter sympathetically into the life ever, depends largely on annuals for its 

 of the village, and that the labours of the display. Reds and pinks occupy one side 

 garden staff, under the direction of of what may be described as a rectangle of 



THE 



#arbcmrs'Cbromde 



No. 1,317.— SATURDAY, March 23, 1912. 



Mr. Hugh Pett.'grew, are not confined beds ; purples and mauves and certain pale 

 within the castle walls. Thus, over 110,000 blues the opposite side, the broad inter- 

 plants of annual or bedding nature were vening space of grass being divided into 

 handled last season in the admirable pro- numerous beds and planted in w T hite. 

 pagating yard which is conveniently Dorothy Perkins and Hiawatha Roses are 

 situated close to the entrance of the castle used largely in the red and pink borders ; 

 gardens, but on the other side of the Viola cornuta purpurea and other Violas 



in the purple and mauve ; and the dead- 

 white variety of V. cornuta is found use- 



road. 



Mr 



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CONTENTS. 



Batsford ... 



Books, notices of— 



Botanical Magazine... 



The Cultivation of 

 Hardy Vines ^ .. 



Publications received 

 Brussels International 



Exhibition 



Bulb garden, the 



Californ an plant dis- 

 eases .. 



Cumberland gardeners, 

 complimentary dinner 

 to 



Dahlias, collarette 



Epiphytic Bromeliads, 

 the food of 



Failure of a society 



Forestry report 



Golf links, the deterio- 

 ration of 



Hooker, Sir Joseph, 

 bust of the late 



International Horticul- 

 tural Exhibition 



Lawn sands 



L.C.C. Parks Commit- 

 tee 



Lewis, Mr. Thomas ... 



Manchester, horticul- 

 ture in 



Meteorological instru- 

 ments and weather 

 forecasts 



Mycetozoa. the 



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 181 



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 189 



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 187 

 187 



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188 

 182 



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189 



Obituary — 



Ellison, C. C 



McKay, James 



Parasitic fungi, the na- 

 ture of 



Plum, Count Althann's 

 Gage 



Primula obconica, the 

 evolution of 



Purdom, Mr. W., at 



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 187 



St. Fagan's Castle, Car- 

 diff 



School gardens 



Scotland, notes from ... 

 Societies — 



British Gardeners' 

 Association 



Manchester and N. of 

 England Orchid ... 



N. of Eng. Hort. 



Royal Horticultural .. 



Surveyors' Institution 

 Soil constituent, 



a beneficent 



Vegetables — 



Cauliflowers 



Week's work, the — 



Flower garden, the... 



French garden, the ... 



Fruits under glass ... 



Hardy fruit garden ... 



Kitchen garden, the... 



Orchid houses, the .. 



Plants under glass ... 



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187 

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grew's creeper-clad house, the first thing ful in the white beds. Outside the 



that struck me was the value of Muehlen- rectangle are paths and wall-backed 



beckia complexa as a wall plant. Many borders. Flowering shrubs and fruit trees 



avail themselves of this shrub for planting occupy the walls, and in the borders are 



high on large rockeries and banks, where yellow plants. Near by are some weeping 



its sprays of little, dainty leaves fall Roses budded as standards— Tausend- 



gracefully ; but it is not, I think, so com- schon, Flower of Fairfield, Dorothy Per- 



monly employed on walls. Several speci- kins, and others. Wichuraiana Koses 



mens may be seen at St. Fagan's draping planted in the earth-filled top of a low 



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ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Cups, presentation, for the International Horticul- 

 tural Exhibition ... 188, 189 



Plymouth, Earl, portrait of the 192 



St. Fagan's Castle, Cardiff (Supplementary Illustra- 

 tion) ; views in the gardens at 179, 180, 181, 182 



ST. FAGAN'S CASTLE, 



(See also Supplementary Illustration.) 



'"P HE hamlet of St. Fagan's is four miles 



from Cardiff, and though it has a 



station on the main Great Western , 



line, which passes indeed within a stone's FlG ' 7*—"' FAGAN s CASTLE : THE PINE WALK - 



throw of its castle grounds, yet the inva- 

 sion of the railroad has not destroyed the the walls beautifully to the eaves. Many wall thrive excellently— Jersey Beauty 



rusticity of the country-side. 



varieties of Vitis are thriving on the in particular keeping its leaves glossy 



one corner is a 



fine 



of 



specimen 

 into little gardens of differing character Davidia involucrata— 14 to 15 feet high 



has not, how- 



an attack by equally and almost bewildering number. Vitis and 10 feet through. 



It 



The beauty of St. Fagan's Castle resists numerous old walls which divide the and green, even in hot, dry weather, 

 the assault of modernity as surely as the grounds immediately around the castle In 

 old Norman fortress which preceded it 

 withstood many 



powerful though less insidious foes. To 

 the visitor standing on the road just out- 

 side the village, the passing express 

 which emerges below him from among the 



re es of a high and overhanging wood 

 directly opposite seems not the noisy in- 

 truding monster that so often 

 6 peace of a rural scene, but passes, 



creened by a white cloud of steam, and 

 noiselessly-if the wind be the right way- 



TW J ncident in a charming landscape, 

 patched cottages, standing in trim little 



'S' ^ tle Picturesquely beneath the 



tTe ct L d W f lls ° f th * *««°. OppoBite 

 cared f Sateway stands the church, well- 

 graves \ and . 6ur ™unded by well-kept 

 ve s. i here ls indaed evidence on 



Coignetise, V. purpurea, V. odoratissima ever, produced flowers during the five 



(the male form of V. vulpina) are con- years it has been planted. It is to 



spicuous, and the great-leaved V. Thun- be hoped it may soon follow the example 



bergii, which colours finely here in of the specimen at Messrs. Veiteh's nur- 



autumn, may be seen in more than one sery at Coombe Wood. From this gardsn 



specimen. These old walls are full of in- we pass between outhouses covered with 



disturbs teresting native and naturalised flowers white and blue Wistaria to the Rose gar- 



and Ferns, and the Spur- Valerian, pink, den ; the grassy approach is fenced with 



white, and crimson, is very showy. One green wooden trellis, covered with rambling 



patch of the white variety, chance-sown varieties and backed by flowering shrubs, 



in a dense, symmetrical, fan-shaped group, among which is a large specimen of Choisya 



extending from the ground to the battle- ternata. In the centre of the garden is a 



ment, looks at a distance like some pro- Bay tree formed into a bower over a seat 



fusely-blooming trained wall shrub. 



and surrounded by a trellis. This is en- 



First comes a garden, planted to colour circled by a little cement moat, in which 

 in somewhat formal b?ds. There is a blue Nymphaeas of smaller habit grow T at in- 

 border in which Anchusas and Delphi- tervals in baskets of wire-netting. Such 



