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THE GARDENERS- 
CHRONICLE. 
[Joxe 11, 1887, 
on which, no doubt, the блата formed 
of grass ‘and thickly springing Blue Bells, an 
into this fair retreat the sun pierced through the 
foliage, causing cheerful light to fall upon the 
leaves and mingled shades and warm sunlight 
on the ground below 
The house is se of sandstone, I believe, but 
the entrance front has been colour 
this bit of хем amid the solid mountains 
leaving som mething to to desired. So does the 
slated roof, since slates with pointed vens ч the 
olden style do not seem well assorted. 
house is а good one, large and good Looking. 
One of its two otha Фоне contains the princi- 
T 
with a large variety of 
Conifers, from Cryptomeria japonica and Pinus 
nobilis to P. ‚ Strobus and Scotch Fir. Rhodo- 
y edgin 
are named sorts, some of them very choice, and 
all in psg condition, making at the end of 
May a fine display. The Azaleas are brilliant, 
атры their bright hueslike bushes of fire in 
me cases, and it seems almost unreasonable, 
ч such a floral effort as they are now making, 
ever to expect them to blossom again. 
The late Mr. Herbert loved his home, and 
lived here among his tenantry when he could, 
his garden as every gentleman 
The wi of pim about his dwelling 
of a paler colour, Portugal Laurel, Laurustinus, 
and that bright-leaved, shining evergreen, plen- 
tifulin the Channel Islands, and quite at home 
of Muckross Abbey 
beauty of the woods, and the rich vérdute of the 
mountain sides, and of the numerous isles that 
stud the lakes, soften the ruggedness which the 
bare peaks of mountains 3000 feet high might 
otherwise have displayed. Water is a great 
tamer of rough landscapes, as you may see in 
the effect of the islet-spotted lake before the 
windows of this ама residence when the 
sun descends over the ranges in the opposite 
shore on à summer vei when the peaks are 
bathed in ا‎ light, and the water, smooth as 
glass, lies like a mirror at their base. 
A mile’s walk from Muckross Abbey brought 
me to a landmark which I had seen from afar, 
апа which I was pleased to visit as the memorial 
of a good landlord erected by his tenantry. The 
late Mr. Herbert was much beloved by the warm- 
hearted people among whom he delighted to 
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reside. For years an educator in 
this district, spending his fortune in the improve- 
ment of his property and of those who dwelt 
upon it. He un the habits of the popu- 
lation, and strove by his personal influence to 
induce certain desirable changes amongst them. 
He lodged them in model co 
observed coming late to their work in the morn- 
ing, he gave them a hint which Irish humour 
did not fail to appreciate, by sending the slug- 
gards some parcels of nightcaps, a present from 
“ his honour.” The memorial of this good man 
consists of a massive and lofty cross erected over 
his grave in the Protestant burial place b 
tenants who are chiefly composed of Catholics. 
The «пріо and appropriate inscription runs 
thus :—“In affectionate memory of the Right 
Honourable Нашу Arthur Herbert: born 1815, 
died 1866. His tenantry have erected this cross 
io record their sense of his virtues and their 
grief for his loss." 
The well known Tore Waterfall, formed by а 
small stream plunging down a mountain chasm 
towards the lake below, is about a mile from the 
bey. Near Muckross, too, and 7 miles from 
Killarney, after an ascent of 2756 feet above the 
sea-level on ponies or on foot, one reaches the 
summit of Mangerton, near the Devil's Irish 
Punchbowl, for he has another in England at 
Hindhead, near Haslemere, Surrey. The over- 
flow of this tarn 2000 feet above the lakes forms 
the “ river " just mentioned as forming the Torc 
Waterfall. The view from Mangerton com- 
prises a grand panorama of the lakes of Killarney, 
with the sea and = PEE south-west coast in 
the opposite direct 
In the church of the ancient Abbey near this 
modern residence the chiefs of the neighbourhood 
were buried. Beneath a massive monument of 
native stone in the centre of the choir lies the 
MacCarthy who founded the Abbey in 1340, 
others of that family, and of the O'Donoghues of 
Ross Castle lying near him. The graveyard out- 
habit of b 
this position, so the ached 
press e it pred all de У Wins as 
this one has done in the cloisters at Muckross, 
where po trunk h TW Ванга the e girth of 10 feet, 
the age of the tree being year 
I must mention the avenue leading to the gate 
of the ruins, by way of warnin st planting 
ot these 
two trees do not marry well together, “the эз 
effect of an avenue of Limes only when the 
branches interlace at , 0p as they should do, is 
senting! lost. H. E. 
CYPRIPEDIUM POLITUM x. 
s is a very distinct showy hybrid, belonging to 
the acaulescent group. 'The leaves are somewhat 
n tessellations. 
nished, whitish, with a red suffusion ; nerves 
with a central bar of red stretching from the base 
pwards; the petals are linear, glossy, covered 
slightly with fine hairs, and purplish-red, but towards 
the base green, and marked with e dots; the 
lip is suffused in front with purplish-red, and fur- 
nished with green nerves. The figure (fig. 143) was 
taken from a plant in the possession of Mr. F. G. 
Tautz, Studley House, Shepherd's Bush. It is a free- 
flowering hybrid, raised by Mr. R. Warner. 
FLOWERS IN PARIS.—On January 1 there were 
sold in Paris, 
of cut Roses from Ni 
Roses, 10,000 
Lilacs. We take the 
@ Arboriculture. 
figures from the 
duction are a great success, H. 
between 4 and 5 a.m., 150,000 dozens 
f 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
CCELOGYNE SANDERIANA, s, sp.* 
is a magnificent Sondaic discovery of Mr: 
reira nn, and dedicated at his desire to his ener- 
rprisi 
pr e ; Cologyne 
cristata itself. I have ve ried materials and 
h in colours from ermann. The 
аге snow-white. The side-lacini are marked 
with three brown stripes. anterior lacinia has 
РА 
Тһе 
yellow crests, and is itself yellow, excepting а few 
white marks. 
The dried flowers are equal in size to dried flowers 
of Coelogyne speciosa. I have two splendid strong 
rhizomes. The bulbs exceed 2 inches in length, are 
sometimes only costate, at others wrinkled all over. 
There are two very large leaf-scars at the top, show- 
ing some scars of the vascular bundle, with a mucro 
as is seen in Maxillarioids. The leaves exceed a 
foot in eon = аге 251 inches wide, ribbed, char- 
taceous. iole is channelled and dilated at 
the base, whitch кы for the enormous extent of 
the scar. 
The peduncle proceeds from the fresh pens when 
the leaves are still quite short, 1 to Ain 
There are two breaks fro 
specimens, and the 
nished. The bracts fall off before the flowers are 
open. have only seen one at the top of an in- 
florescence, convolute, acuminate, narrow. There is 
a wide brown sheath at the base of one rih 
i [а 
which will be given shortly. E».] will afford great 
pleasure to orchidists. Their discovery and intro- 
G. Rchb. f. 
VANDA ÅMESIANA, n:-sp.t 
This is a lovely plant, like a most delicate Pha- 
a inflorescence (!), with a short stem laden 
with “dark green leaves, like tho: se of Aérides 
flne." “The stem is 3} inches high." Its canal- 
iculate leaves (apex not seen) are quite novel for 
The long ЫДЫ чаран is laden with a 
dozen charming flowers, as large as as those of Vanda | 
Denisoniana, b 4 
creamy-white with a rich rosy hue, most on the lip, 
be to fade, 
note the orchidist’s habitual views. A has, 
or ought to bear, its normal Vanda leaves, seen 
so often since the naming of Vanda Roxburghi, or 
it may be permitted to have terete, or even subulate 
leaves. A Уз ica however, with им, of Aérides 
affine was not seen till 1887, and as e 
accustomed to iili a sight, though far ede striking — 
г verc og 
ay X tiolatis с 
tatis seu osis. diphyllis, Tolis " i 
Tm is) р тр novemforis;” 
carinatis 
superne dilatatis; labello 1640, 
antice triangulis, lacinia mediana cunea’ : 
lata, carinis laceris multicristatis a basi in basin ne 
androcli aay 
- Ex imperio 
S. Low (Монге Hugh Low & Co.) H. G. RA fe 
