Juse 22, 1805. TJE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 765 
CLIVEDEN. 
F Tae month of May was syprosching ite end when 
ah, A we found ourself plodding along four and more 
62 miles of dusty highway in the direction of Cliveden 
Sree and Dropmore. The change from the floriferousners 
9 of Azalea hododendron-adorned 
8 and its Conifers, to the cool umbrageous greenery of 
. the former, was extremely grateful on this occasion. 
-< 8 The estate, not an extensive one, although rich in 
i 8 beautiful views the surrounding country, 
Ske So and including the Castle at Windsor, has some 
Re pleasing features within ite boundaries, A new 
ees to an estate nearly always means some 
eke N improvements, and at Cliveden there are i 
Sta DN Fx which have been carried ont, and others are con- 
raak A) ACS templated. Some of these are called for by the 
ASS different use the place is being put to, compared 
N with what it was in former years, Then it served 
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Sutherland’s family, and was, in fact, a dower- 
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wate Se, house continuously occupied. Thie, 
SOE x of course, involves increased means of supply in the 
si ean matters of vegetables, indoor and outdoor fruits, and 
Sting NG pot plante. 
n The new kitchen garden near the mansion of less 
x: than 2 acres (we did not see the much larger one 
across the Thames) will doubtless grow as good vege- 
tables and fruit as that which Mr. Ellam, the late 
ener, made e years ago Mr, 
ANA „the present head gardener, has dismantled, 
8 It is nicely walled- in, the walls being constructed 
WW Berse in an excellent manner with the best of red bricks, 
Sis fps. It is all very new looking, and, as yet, incomplete ; 
<a Sites Sue tes ERER: tE bet will doatidees form i y the 
eed Ril ees KI 5 n resources of the place. We shou e it better - 
BSG * Pay 5 ES ree ; eines hee out the row of iron spikes on the top of the wall that 
BREN OS S * to transport one toa garden ina London suburb, 
ote Sie, SNES 8 Another “improvement” is the electrie light, for which 
S 2 77 e te Ss we noticed a shed to bold an enormous steam boiler, 
sos pa SAU FERS . St and the necessary machinery is being constructed at 
SESS tis 5 a point in a dell not far distant from the mansion, 
‘ Pye eet esate ters ` How bizarre this all seems to us in this quiet 
e retreat! We think any means of lighting preferable 
we N fe —— such as this glaring search- 
Sal Ran d 1 
N Several new structures have been put up within a 
Nr Eo quarter of an hour’s walk of the principal entrance 
PENT Ge | PVA he to place, notably, a roofed-in tennis ec urt 
| n built in the Gothic style and partly of wood, with 
| So MAES occ s „A, of white etone, and admirably 
| SS l with their woodlend surroundings, at the same 
| e pa! impart a h to an 
| | as ld D otherwise lonely bit of road. 
| : ESD In the famous spring garden little change ; 
r the same large masses of aky- blue Forget · me · not, of 
ayy pink Silene and Sapova Viola in blue and 
j 4 le were remarked. Datch bulbs are as largely 
Í ; | used more #0, but these were out of 
| blcom. In the raised borders and clamps immedi- 
i {i ately „the in 
i q of charming year ype of Viola, Wall- 
Golden Prince is an excellent yellow, being pure in 
colour; asis V. White Swan inthe same way, i. e., with- 
out radial lines of another colour, as is common wit 
| > many self- d Violas, This fault is slightly 
O > in V. The Dove, but which, in spite of the 
** lfs detracts from eee, A ee 
e a . Ls tion to the size of the mass, V. Archie Grant, a 
ae “Fro, 115.—RHEUM MOORCROFTIANUM. (sax P. 762.) an ad ce without an equal oti- 
forescence, half-size, ir cluding leaves ;.B, Top <f spike, real ize; O, Section through spike, real size, Harbinger and Canary Bird are varieties of 
i nden Mo show hollow stem and groups ot fowers; D, Sido and tap of flower, x oes ee. ener — — 
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