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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Арип 9, 1887. 
house, as it was sometimes called, was occupied 
as а seminary for young ladies. А new house 
was afterwards built, the property having been 
purchased by its late owner of Lord Southwold. 
It is a good house, well placed/amid avenues of 
Oaks, the prevailing tree, оп ground somewhat 
elevated above the fertile country around, so that 
the outlook, from amidst = trees, which abound 
but do not encumber commands extensive 
landscapes Droitwich àd Birmingham are dis- 
tant points lying a little beyond the horizon. 
The north front looks towards Witley Court and 
towards the village of Hindlip, half a mile distant. 
A lawn of several acres divides this front from 
the park, or rather there are two lawns, one level 
with the house and a lower one reach 
stone steps and divided from the park by an iron 
fence. There are plenty of shrubs, which are 
grouped here and there, and the house is flanked 
on either wing by Limes and Sycamores, which 
w close up to it. Some bete lofty Oaks, with 
mid big boles, 15 feet in ,and some English 
Elms as tall and as large, d both within and 
without the park fence, and rabbits and hares, 
sheep and cattle all seem quite at home here, the 
game 
live stock, pen | ln been fenced off. The 
and in further praise it may be spok g 
full of the sentiment of English country life, 
sport and good cheer. 
The south front overlooks a lawn and terrace 
with but few flower-beds, thé prospect embracing 
so much that is pleasing, that flowers to distract 
the attention would be out of place. Tall Wel- 
dsome 
The old park—so called to dis- 
m the new one on the other side 
Hops are the Malvern Hills and the city of 
: iles off 
crowing i 
across the lawn increases the pleasure one feels 
in visiting a perfect example of an English 
gentleman's house and home. 
THE GARDENS. 
The kitchen — and the ranges of green- 
houses and sto 
one of rm an intelligent young man, found 
a substitute for his indoor duties at the bothy, 
and ved his turn as cook that he might 
accompany me through the houses and round the 
grounds, his master havi 
I have rarely seen a kitchen garden more 
variously productive and interesting W 
entered it through a small flower garden sloping ' 
towards 
Worcester and Malvern, as the whole of 
the garden does, and shut in on its two other 
utiful, 
having been planted in a very brilliant style 
of geometric bedding, with free use of a great 
pee riety of стн нан and flowers. 
kitchen garden, fenced with high Par: 
жаз sheltered besides Бат outside ` 
with Vera ач 
as cordons, which bear abundantly at a foot from 
е ground, that being the height at which these 
of fruit are stretched. Outside the garden 
its walls are well covered with various fruit trees, 
including Peaches, Nectarines, and choice Pears 
on the best front facing the south-west, and 
Pears as cordons on the west wall. This is the 
advantage of a second fence and of a protecting 
belting, whioh in this oise includes ornamental 
pad ,wi 
them forming a delightful walk which leads to a 
rosery near the house, and then to the southern 
lawn. It will be seen from this description that 
the kitchen garden is near the house, which is 
just tin such a garden should be. 
The church, too, is close to the Hall, and the 
village : is "icy half a mile off, if you ‘take the 
short cut through the pastures, passing ‘one of 
the handsomest of Pear trees, tall and spreading, 
and loaded with highly ооба fruit at the time 
pped to gaze at this superb 
built, of bricks and mortar, with hard outlines, 
but aliving tree, such as men have worshipped 
for its graceful form and noble stature. 
little boys stood beneath this fruit-bearing piece 
of perfection and stared at me for a moment, and 
then began to walk off stealthily, and then to 
run, looking back over their shoulders, and run- 
ning with might and main till they had crossed 
the pasture, on den bolted through a cottage 
garden on the opposite side. I should think 
such small boys so o fall of forbidden Pears as they 
both were probably never ran so fast before; but 
their fright was needless, for they might have 
eaten till they burst, as sheep and cattle do after 
too much Clover, I should not have noticed 
them in the presence of that beautiful Pear 
ree. 
© 
I cannot refrain from mentioning the orna- 
mental foliage plants in one of the stoves—the 
Caladiums, Alocasias , Crotons, and Dracænas 
which were charmingly mingled with flowering 
plants, Maidenhair Ferns, Palms, Athyriums, 
superb plant of 
Gloriosa superba, which caught the eye as some- 
thing not seen every day, like a peacock's tail in 
May. Several houses here are devoted to the 
growth of Figs. There are three Peach-houses. 
excellent. I can hardly mention all the houses, 
still less their contents. We through a 
Plum-house and more than one containing Rose: 
for зара, a tw d and that triumph of 
modern art, the Fuchsia 
There are other houses in which both vege- 
tables and flowers are raised, and I noticed among 
he reserves, waiting for their um. a large col- 
lection of Chry mums in pots, which will 
Tann be brought into een eua 
PLANTS NEW OR NOTEWORTHY, 
Mp E 
NEPHROLEPIS Jeet wegen vi 
varieties of N. exaltata, Presl ( Polygodiuns - pex 
tatum, Linn.), one of the most aiios diffused of all 
Nephrolepis rufescens, Splitgerber Ti b i vii., 415; 
жиза ы Ergeb. Heise Mazim., p. 200, t. 1 1. Aspidium 
Schrad., in Gotting. Anz., 1824, 269. 
pieces а tego var. hir- 
sutula, Baker in Mart. Fl. mia vol. i., PN 493, ex 
Wim Эр we {к dde 
uL E 
. hairs. 
cultivation and rapid powers of prop: 
i under the name of N 
the tropical Ferns, being equally plentiful in the 
Old and New Wor s was originally 
described by Schrader in 1824, from specimens 
gathered in Brazil by Prince Maximilian of 1 
It has lately been deem and fully described by th 
hevalier Wawra the superb work above ci ited 
which contains an' o of the plants gathered 
during the travels of the ill-fated Emperor 
Maximilian of Mexico. 
between them. The present plant was intro- 
uced into cultivation by  Messrs. Veitch, in 
whose collection our sketch made, and 
received Botanical Certificate i the Royal 
Horticultural Society in June 
corded in our 
bears very much the 
that Polypodium 
The pinne overlap on 
especially on the lower side, into 
for which 
frond cn especially beneath, with short reddish 
о these that the name rufescens refers. 
Of the pak duis of well-known collectors, Martius, 
318; Gardner, 187; and Pohl, 2638, represent 
typical rufescens. J. G. Baker 
o this note we may add that this Fern will com- 
bebe itself to gardeners for its graceful habit, easy 
pagation, so that 
deis bed one of the best Ferns for “ decorating” 
e 
cláóely packed, but in reality they emerge from the 
central stalk at an acute angle, and thus allow of the 
passage of woe eter the pinn exactly in the 
same way as the light ME ا‎ between the laths of a 
half-open lae iir: blind. 
NEPHTHYTIS PICTURATA, N. E. Br., n. sp. 
ue 
A few years since I eec ibe E in these pages, 
roid 
and now the s same gentleman h 
from the Congo which, although it has not yet 
flowered, has every appearance of belonging to the 
same с so that I have no hesitation in consider- 
ing it as s tal foli 
between the nerves, with d points all directed 
towards the base of the midrib 
The plant i is "anser nd pr йге several leaves 
snm are about 10—12 inches 
The blade of the leaf is 
те at the apex, with mo 
a rather dark ен — 
h 
branches of the midrib are denuded at the sinus from 
4—4 inch, from their lower edges are given off about 
three primary veins, and from their Аа edges two 
to four finer veins. 
Mr. Bull has two forms of this plant, one with 
much smaller and narrower leaves than t other, 
which I propose 
narrower 
lobes 
