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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Marca 9, 1895, 
bow and Eva,” is now 2 the National Picture T 
lery at Dablin, where it is much ad mired, On t 
death of King — himself in the year 1170, 
“Stongbow” succeeded him, and dying six years 
later was buried in Christ’s Church C a 
Dublin, the * nae St. Laurance presiding at 
e Eva had only one daughter, 
son of John the Marshal of the court of King He enry 
the Second. 
more recent times Mount Merrion belonged to 
the Right ft Sidney rig teng known a eri 
State services during t war, a 
statue by Foley, now A 2 the War Oe i in 
Pall Mall. 
Mount Merrion is approached from teat we. 
main road sen en . and Blackrock, by a 
superb aven idth and 1 mile it in 3 
fringed with t — — villa Poikia and extending 
unt Merrion itself to the public park at 
Blackrock, which overhangs the shores of Dablin 
Bay. The whole district is bright, mild, and salu- 
brious, and vegetation of all kinds is luxuriant in 
the district, Many cf the roadsides in this locality 
are y 
Italian ebe that has quite naturalised itself; 
and Mer Avenue is 5 a with its 
ker. odour every spring. 
In entrance- gates N is a i bió avenue of 
th 
existent are of the time of Elizabeth, On th 
behind the house is a grove of Beech, Scots Fir, and 
* 
Howth Head, with the blue waters of Dublin Bay, 
being a familiar . Pee ote rial on a clear day. 
From other elevated points vie obtained of 
the Dablin and Wicklow Parcs peat the peak 
of the Sugar-loaf Mounta 
There are broad — and sweeps of lawns and 
a large kitchen garden with wall 
and extensive ranges 
ouses, conservatory, 
ondi 
noble trees, an 
r 
here, and even 
the wealth of green grass alls, as 
ae in our illustration ae 40). The 3 wood 
e here, near the house, is the o known 
Trish habltes of the grass Hordeum 3 it 
having been discovered here some 
Po John Bain, A.L.S, 
remember the magnificent specimen of the 
Caltrain Phera Piant pripisa californica), 
y the late Mr, Duncan Welsh some 
more pleasant visit he paid than to the well-kept 
gardens and demesne of Mount Merrion, and it is a 
great to to the public that its noble owner, and 
Mr, Fane Vernon, his representative, admit visitors 
freely every Saturday during a season, The gar- 
F, W. Burbidge. 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE, 
WILLIAM HURST PEA: A 6 
meetings of the Devon and Exeter Garden s’ Asso- 
ciation are, by permiesion of en Mayor, held i in the 
Council Chamber of the Exeter G ildhall, h 
the chamber being adorned wi h hi ee eles 
urst Pea 
exhaustive and routes del 3 the time 
pi Pea was sent out by M 
0 
Devonshire, an and when it was sent out, American 
e first to recognise its value, it 
falling “Pte flat the first year ＋ 15 trial in Eng- 
and, though it has since taken a prominent ee 
e coincidence apes such a discussion phere place 
oom was remarked by the 1 
Mr. Hope, who called attention to the fact that here 
eo 
a E N 
was a life-size and probably life-like — of 
William Hurst, seg a calmly upon their proceed- 
ings. is William Hurst, who died i 
old age of ninety-aix, b had the probab 
worthy progenitor of the Hurat family founded and 
endowed an almshouse in the east end of Exeter, 
A-H. 
DUKE OF YORK AND URIAH PIKE CARNATIONS,— 
varieties Duke 
Duk York is equally free-flowering, especially 
in fact, it is the quicker of the two in 
in 1 
opening its flowers in the dull days of we al 
Uriah Pike is a beautiful deep crimson» sould 
shades darker than the former, anc — high- 
probably prefer its colour ; but for nee — 
built shape of bloom, Dake of York 1 bly the 
. varieties are unq and are 
uals ever sent rt public 
favourites with both market growers an 
C. C. 
CYPRIPEDIUM DAUTHIERI. ace i parti- 
umber for Februa mention is m — 
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bloomed with me on January genus 
In mine, the upper sepal had the left 
