HAB 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Aucust 7 1875. 
worth is in Gloucester, and there is an Ashley in 
арс aig Stafford, and Wilts, and 
mbridge; Bracon Ash 
R т 
е 
its places Ashsprington, Ashreigncy, and 
d has Ashperton, and Hertford 
in 
not only A 
Ashton- 
ferences are sufficient proo 
in England of the Vim go which 
looking to its practical us 
for nought unfit.’ 
Pt in Suffolk, il in Hertfordshire, and 
Aspley Guise, give hints that G ay's lines are not ap- 
plicable in these parts, and that we cannot say— 
“ № gale disturbs the tr 
Nor aspen leaves confess the ponds breeze." 
Beechamwell in Norfolk, and Beechingstoke in 
Wiltshire ; Great | Birch in Essex, as well as Much 
Birch and Little Birch in He ereford ; Birchfield in 
Newton Bircham, and Tofts Becher in Norfolk, as. 
well as Birchanger in Essex, Birchill in Derbyshire, 
Birc nie a MM Bircholt in Kent, suggest that in the 
former 
x s was the forest, thick with Beech it stood," 
and that in the green country lanes of the latter— 
“The Weeping Birch tree жм 
Its branches, like a fountain showe: 
an only quote as samples, Boxgrove in Sussex 
кан Hili in Surrey], Boxley in Kent, one Boxted in 
x and another in Suffolk, Boxwell in 'Glouc ester, 
and Boxworth in Cambri ridge, of the proof which 
names 
ami Gloucester — an — ; Suffolk ma both 
an Elmsett and an Elmsw 
In Lincoln niue is not Mer a Firsby but an East 
NT апа in Yorkshire there isa Firbeck. **' The 
isa ve mmo pron for gentlemen's 
estates in many counti There are places name 
me in Westm d and N ошагы, and in th 
latter county ve ierrepont Holme. 
Norfolk has Hale, Holme, Holme-next-Runcton, and 
Holme-near-the-Sea. York olme-on-the- 
Wolds and Holme-upon-Spalding-Moor. In Dorse 
there is East Ho Lincoln , and in 
Cumberland Cul olme. In we cup 
Ho 
counties of Surrey and Kent is so inaccessible that 
goes :— 
the rhyme 
“ к. is Holmsdale, 
Never won nor ne' er shall." 
In ne Middlesex, and T AU Somerset, 
laces where— 
3 i A I ime 
Ag Geman Gf be Oak, take Oake -» Somerset, 
akford in Oakham. in 
, 
Rutlandshire, 
and Oakhampton i in Devon, as well as Oakington in 
Cambridge, in and aksey in Wilts, 
In addition to this, Oakley is a place-name in Bed- 
ford, Buckingham, and "Suffolk ; Great Oakley and 
Little are found both in Essex and North- 
+7 тиде Tras Tara 
TRENT PARK, 
THE SRAT | oF КЕ, As L. BEVAN, Esq. 
IS ne p the northern extr ity 
of the county of irm on m undulating Enfield 
hase ; it is some ten miles nt from London, and 
is approached from the main sad leading from South- 
gate to Potter’s Bar. At about two miles from the 
former village stands the principal entrance lodge, 
once inside the gates of which the visitor gets a 
glimpse of the beautiful scenery in which the place 
abounds, and which is not surpassed by anything in 
its way in this part of the country. The whole sur- 
face of the land is a succession of hill and dale, w 
and water. Following the windings of the well-kept 
carriage-drive, in an easterly direction, through a large 
tract of highly cultivated meadow land, the attention 
is arrested by a treble avenue of thriving Limes, 
planted some thirty years, very even in growth, 
clean in the trunks, and symmetrical in the heads, 
o show the natural habit 
ues a 
of gh no admirer of av 
generally seen, for they are too often unmea 
inconsistently out of place, e pai if the grounds 
here the 
коше is good, without "myth id objectionable. 
ersing this avenue, which is of considera ре e ed 
a second gate, enclosing a po e 
gro dotted over with some splendid tim- 
ber, amongst which Oak, "e and Hornbeam, 
stand conspicuous, by the larg 
great age of some. Hollies o Bow here splendidly, 
on Мак toa 
m 
к, 
РАД 
I 
ft 
"Thist tl, Soak de alive and sound, ; has 
very few branches, scarcely any that show through its 
mantle of Ivy towards the top, bb is quite covered, 
of the ost perfect ex cla 
tree to be met wi ne feet i in гар and girth- 
ing 10 feet at 45 cx пок the gom t is a most inter- 
esting illustra of the tenacity o x ап 
the lingering, 1 but, no doubt, асу fatal grip of 
its destroyer. Ivy-clad Hollies are not very common, 
yet Hom appear ear to be able to bear up against its in- 
fluence longer than most neti is was a favourite 
resort for owl thirty years аро. Amongstnumbers of 
peas ch, and other trees, i A a very old 
Oak, s 1 feet in diameter 6 feet from the ground. 
This Ero near the south, or principal entrance to the 
mansion, уг cm isa go imposing building, with a 
massive tow at the eas faces north wards, 
overlooking a ie valley, in the € of which is 
a fine piece of water, so extent. th 
opposite bank of this the | broad expanse o of grassland 
stretches west, northwards rising gradually 
to a reale height, where it mea a large 
extent of woodland (some 240 acres), r 
margin of which—in n standing "out "boldy, in 
others receding—altogether forms a most beautiful 
pe. 
escending this valley from the mansion, keeping 
to the right, we come to the head of the ornamental 
i ich is 
th ations, but in e par 
ticularly noticeable for the effect it has been made to 
play on the surrounding landscape. The margin is 
lanted with wing centr 
a number of tall Poplars; these produce the best 
7 t: standing eio a the bottom of 
the valley, whichever point they are seen th 
have a vr daft ok of trees wit 
habit, t to whick they form an 
mirable contrast—they are, in fact, M one touch 
which completes the picture. Going г by the 
eastern end of thc lake, on the opposite bank of which 
обе Ў which аге 
arrive at the ment of the wood- 
clo height y alluded to; it consists princi 
ly of Oak, Beech, and H wi: 
examples of Holly and Thorn, amongst which are 
some splendid trees, particularly Beech, which here 
d PG OM well. S bug is one er rticular 
that dese cial notice; its girth at 4 feet from 
the ora i is 1w feet, height 100 feet ; he branches 
droop almost to the ground 4 ; it is perfect 
ery 
that has not been planted by the hand of тап; it 
consists principally of Oak, Beech, Holly, and Thorn, 
the undergrowth very thick 'and close, with the common 
Brake (Fern) in a few open places. On the summit 
of кы hil stands the Camlet Moat, abont the 
ori 
at ttributin its construction to the Man evill ч 
previous to the twelfth century. A go e с> of the 
ү ye aced, although almost covered 
with a thicket of under, th ; this is point 
one of the hiding places of the notorious hi 
urpin, whose means intact kept a publichouse ki t fat 
distant—at all events it is a 
especially enjoyable, affording at every turn a glim mpse 
of fine and varied scenery stretching far in the distance 
over the adjoining co unties of Essex and Hertford. 
shire. Leaving this i тше рай spot from its western 
escend through a fine o 
able. 
planted thinly with 
close as to interfere with the un 
and Yew which are planted Mete à near to each 
other to form large beds, and kept cut so as not to 
grow too high for the eye to reach over bin in this 
way they look well and make a novel feature. There 
ernery made by Mr. Sibins, ‘who was 
ural ges are every- 
which there are some fine examples, do well here. 
Approaching the mansion "e some mie j ius 
Golden Hollies, Irish Yew eodars, and . 
xamples standing westwards from this point, 
not ( tfe fep of та vien age, but fu x t health and 
M aed perfect ical and a 
eight. db d the mansion 
feet in w 
covered ми 
Creeper shore at 4 feet intervals. These 
and considerably above the he Т, 
never seen managed 
Lag 
B 
Rn 
rries 
fo rs of our fine old ‘plants = ы 
thus simply but e е 
unting th 
ematis of "different rer 
C. Jackmanni, 
still one of the most effective. Adjoin ing the mansion 
at this eastern end is a moderate-sized conservatory, 
the natural 270, dr pes 
mp: 
it is planted out 
row bon 
the very best a re such a situation that . 
more or less in bloom nearly 
can be used. Itis 
tabs ing и plaut th а 
This loo 
= most highly-finished masonry. Co nservatories 
often made as if the о bject was a display of the 
y erials, : 4 
ee eee lants 
as they are put in them, and the collective effect Pic” 
duced i pape ruo to where the building in it e 
made a consideration 
"e is i ood 
е kitchen garden with the fruit and plant houses 
lies at some distance this a southern direc. 
