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THE GARDENERS’ 
tribe“ visitors ” 
Turvey having по * 
The views from the нее afford a charming bit of 
English scenery. The fine old gabled house, with 
ite great windows, porches, and balustraded walls, 
e: here and there a flower-laden urn, stands back 
some 200 to 300 yards, and is seen through three 
istis of tall trees, engirdled with clipped Yew hedges. 
The extensive lawn, smooth as velvet, is traversed 
by broad gravel paths; w whi le to right and left these 
lead beneath the trees а delightfully cool, shady 
Hue is a capita РЕ for the учее я 
gardener, showing how much ш the 
2 1 panting of игд аем апа pee on 
grass. There is scarcely a glimpse of colour except 
some vases of г олана near the windows, and 
only, a so far as I am aware, 
Arri 
The outlook from the south front члени а 
his however, might be greatly 
леу and diria by the addition of im bright 
colours and fragrance of ed There is much to 
he ume iti et. Here 
i with Ampelopsis, 
зев 
ыш brighé colours, and the lawn in front w 
ding-plants. The visitor will — notico the 
number of Walnut trees, an magine the 
gales shake the branches, 
ps:ses the handsome school buildings and library. 
What a relief 16 would be to see them encircled with 
^ Р in 
Louse there is a grand old 
one where the 
achool-house, 
Magn 
villagers could see 
mbel- 
Lr d ew a 
Harrow, thus encircled and e 
vm апа watered the plants. an ondoner 
used perforce at that ge rh tnt den the 
Kasih and feast the eye on the flowers. 
arrive at the grand old сан, with 
its Lewe and rugged Elms. One must not stay, 
however, to describe its ancient Т uae their 
recumbent barons, knights and ladie Village 
communities, however, might follow нй example 
set here, of planting Roses, and putt E eo of 
flowering shrubs eau the quiet God’s 
A wicket-gate leads us at once into dia: grounds 
of Turvey House, a stately structure of the Grecian 
order, with garden, rich with colour, In 
front ів a well- w park stretching down to 
gOuse— Cooper' slyrieal Оше, The poet, it шау 
the house is standing in whieh he spent some of his 
тө House Һ 
near the stables, devoted 
iat ‘eats the larger one adjoining 
Те houe, bas a range of g , consisting of 
7, very, an and greenhouse, A separate 
Phe pre шг а walk is approached 
е by handsome iron gates. On either side o of it 
oots of the Yews so 
"ai aap Lee aoil that этен would thrive, and 
aid d . The good old-fashioned | 
en poet here of aurrounding the beds of 
d borders of Roses and 
бош 
d ч canadensis, ecru 
E With a few fronds of Adiameem qr 
makes а light and graceful 
table, The single- flowered 
roseum erus favourite; it is of 
shades of colour, It is succeeded 
nd other Dahlian and then by 
Ad and Chrysanthemum mixed border 
in front- of the glass prae aris dis brightest 
bits of colour at present come from the Shirley and 
Iceland Poppies. There is one kind of the latter, 
as is well known, of p i24 orange-red, peculiar, 
nly. 
grasses, Aquilegia 
embellishment to the 
Pyrethrum i 
delightful 
y Cactus 
во far as I remember his 
Most eee ай. owing to the long 
drought, are stunted and backward in their growth, 
Delphiniums and Phloxes especially so flower 
garden, and more especially the he sbaceous section, 
tuere rm lack АТ bon colour; there is nothing, 
псе to tuke the place of the 
it perm 
Delphinium and Salvia — It is in summer, 
^n at the 
e 
blues are wa a 
CHRONICLE. 
[ Моукмвев 2, 1895, 
poem its stem some charmi ing alpines 
mo 
uelder Roses and B 
here and there a ‘Clematis or Honeyauckle, 
with glimp 
the silvery ribbon of the Ouse, Т, W,, H, 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
A HYBRID MUSA. . 
a has flowered fhis year at 
which tas been ed by Mr. Watson 
Manni and М, rosacea. Аз it present а iiid 
distinct ine. he proposes to call it Mum kewensis, 
This is, во far as I know, the first instades in which 
the hybrid origin of any species of the genus has 
been properly certified, во that it is important that 
Fic. 89.—FRUIT AND STONE OF JUBJEA SPECTABILIS. 
F th 
А, the fruit ; B, secti 
and yellows! Why not utilise the Clematis of 
the Jackmani type? What a relief it is to rest the 
eye on grand masses of Jackmani when the garden 
! 
way, Mr. P Lobelia, of a richer colour, 
and © atn 
It is blue, 4 via patens, and with 
а clear large white eye. Tus is а bright and effective 
edging-plant, and a profuse bloomer. Dame Nature 
aring ef her peram She Mage! one vivid 
Gentian. Bata HS I had 
he Gloxinia which 
this shrubbery a 
yards in width i ш some parts—bhere and there are 
little green bays in which is a Robinia or a Fir, and 
; C, the stone ; D, section of the same. 
(See p. 518.) 
it should be placed on record. Its two — 
arly allied, both belonging to my section 
у ging 2 Даг 
the bracts bright col 
The following deseri |» 
“up wo Д 
June, and the other in October. 1895. 5 $e 
drical, 3 feet long, above 1 inch in diameter. — 
fine, erenated towards the see of the stem; dint 
nchea long ; ; ; blade 
cuneate er rather 
4 to 6 inches long, crimson, wit dn 
Female flowers in four clusters of 8 
flowers a 
ovary finally 1 inchlong. Male flo and obscurely 
Calyx yellowish, 14 inch long, truncate, 
ed at the tip. Petal bear E 
nearly as lon calyx, Stame 
truding beyond * reflexed tipof the 
чигү үт ee ong. A drawing 
made by Miss * for the Kew collection. 
"Herlariu m, Kew. 
grow, and : 
plante that 2 doe = = | 
