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THE: 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[AUGUST 21, 1875. 
and from the educational point of view, the Church- 
s be a pr rofound novelty for 
rivate 
from the very nature of things, a public 
It is pedes by-and-bye to add to the collection 
taken 
to vp effects, eR to the beauty which 
well- is ts of physiognomy and 
wer and the good t чо of the 
much 
things begin a 
plan 
nkments, and wa he e quite spoiled by in- 
Todicious allotment of al trees and shrubs, which is 
bee es 
P 
acquainted with every plant he e 
жае it from his youth upwards, and to have noted 
its m and customs all the year round. Situated 
climate, so perfectly guarded 
from access of wind, and of drau ghts and currents 
in particul so rich i n species, this new South- 
port Arboret needs, in rse o w 
years, become one of re most Vien cens ier the 
North of 1 is not an - 
giving as to the plants reste =з to se cll and 
of › if defend 
when b trenuously, ti i ноо 
has b aken in a way that ensu ccess can- 
mph in good landsc — gard at ms 
form serpentines, е і і 
Ѕегреп walks and the 
beauty” а e by no en 
6 -iutrodüte 
a = th 
с. thus getting r rid of the offens s to 
commonly met with, and NE Mead illusions as 
to mene! of surface. Except upon the spacious lawns, 
and near the en ен: е is scarcel: it o 
absolute. level int the garden. 
ials will be added in due time, 
But there 
m 
40 feet by 20, has been c 
Ref: ; the $i Hon dod of another 
ne w laid 
us 
d interesti b in 
the way of vegetable produce, both simple and manu- 
factured. The Churchtown gardens will thus become 
grand centre of scientific banking in ferent to every- 
thing congenial tc to the aims and spirit оі botany, and 
aux and ally, the indu 
all the accustomed а of 
public pleasure-ground will 
of turf are already in preparation cro d 
chery, and, in due time, there will be exhibitions. 
A large supplemental ке of ground is devoted to 
arium ead -m 
the design bey “that de inhabitants of South 
shall he superiority of high-class жерй, 
jus n wanted, and no 
t whe 5 sooner, as 
rts from a distance, perhaps a 
old. The two vineries, each 90 feet 
lee and — x vigorous young plants, some of which 
are showin and, in addition, some 2 or 
3 acres hares mide Standing on "(һе Re ue 
point of the pce P IUE and east there is a pleas- 
hori 
water, there is 
ihe people of Ainai e, and of Southport in ES 
reat reas pro 
splendid 
t3 
› have gr o be thankful to the 
of this takin ing. | It is no mer 
© nothing. t is no objection to а noble and pr 
lad, born to a certain fortune, and with the best of 
constitutions, that he is at SE pre ae 
wiser indeed, when he comes of age. o 
and well-kept | 
: growing so d 
= the capital of the cen 
CURIOSITIES IN THE NAMES 
OF PLACES.—I 
(Continued from p. 168. ) 
еп ndeavoured to Sane pe 
from th mes of 
was extensively 
were numerous and various. We had reached in our 
ourse— 
** The monarch Oak, the patriarch of trees,” 
and found Ча we could pe in justice to our the 
overlook t y forms in which the evidence of the 
wide Remis = the Oak appears in the variety of 
the names which have been left to us indicative of the 
Oak’s being an old occupant of places almost innu- 
merable in the British isles. The importance of this 
fact is very great. It has had a great influence on the 
national character, as is seen in the phrase employed 
а denote that their inhabitants are bravely trust- 
orthy, or ** hearts of Oak ; - e үөн prs e 
rially affected the history of the , by affording 
these ‘ * wooden walls” which pontine the Аат of 
ing: 
me, 
old to s 
+ Britannia needs no нарча s, 
о towers «ове the steep ; 
r the mouniain-waves 
d the stormy tempests blow 
We go now to show, in continuation of w 
we said before that the Oak was extensively dis- 
tribu ritain. Directly from a Saxon Ac 
we cd names East and West 
Mud "ава Acomb in York; as vila 
West ‘Acomb і in Northumberland ; ey i in ur es 
ford and Acrise in Kent come from t 
ingham, an 
la c and Weit Aia in Durham, and Eakring in 
and 
з E 
Ockley in Surrey, and North and South 
n Essex, as well as re Fitz Paine in Dorset, 
Oke hampton in Devon, d Okeover in Staford, lead 
to the same ie" n.  Andern is th 
Ackmunderness, prt te pro- 
contracted of 
montory sheltered by the Oak, and so shows that the 
O d good service to the Lancashire headland. 
xholm кешу; probably also Axb 
Е 
wo may refer to the Axe 
might get is ае like the Exe, from 
es the 
although perhaps the las 
river, which m 
the Е uisge. 
Pass er the к we must confess that w 
Ter no of places in Britain pum Fich- 
telgebirg EU hill of “Pine ; but hav 
eg Хозеу а hamlet in the p ih of § Stepio, 
but now alm oplacret, е with the 
ercial Road and Black wall. 
S, and several places 
named Plumstead, one in Kent and three in Norfolk ; 
' thongh, by-the-by, there is Pine. 
= ‘a witness to the existence of such trees as 
the Pine ab. which refer to 
e Alder ота Wilts, Alderford 
in Norfolk, rinsing in Gloucest АМ ано їп 
Berkshire, Alderminster in Көрбөй. Aldershot in 
Hampshire ; and there is on in each of 
counties — Gloucester, Wilts, Northampton, and 
Suffolk. Can we say of them as Tennyson sings ? 
ad -— ote will = thine 
драге shiver, 
And] het do thes - = the bee 
or ever and fo 
That there are ud places in nthe pom where the 
coopers’ favourite small- T and where 
the simile upon the lips of wains fads écran their 
sweethearts m Lid be like би of Petruchio in ** The 
Taming of g Shrew ”— 
e, like the Hazel twig 
Is дыы iid: slender, and as brown in hue 
As ts, and sweeter than their kernels.” 
Hazelleigh in 
we may not mentionin 
e by in Essex, 
- Hazelton in Gloucester, and “Hazelwood in ‘Suffolk. 
part 
Picts, the ancient Saipan: of the inhabitants of 
—Caledonians, and the name of коон, 
mmon 
zr are derived, In the same way, and from 
| VA Apres growth of wood to 
‚ woody mount, while Baal- 
Celtic root, the romantically situated dc 
e o 
town at the Cader Idris receives the n 
Dolgelly from having been the NAT. of the dale of 
the Hazel groves. 
Of the growth of t 
e Maple, ying 6 sometimes 
ve 
ab 
хоп eel, which de ды кее ‘that 
Anguilla, or kon 1 
e tree most plenteo 
e can scarcely paa 
lougbby i in Warwi k ма іп 
п Nottin 
th 
growth in their neighbour kadin 
Wiltons—as Hockwold-cum-Wilton in Norfolk and 
i n near Salisbury, in b eer = 
Salix, 
men vw 
shire, Scotland ; a perhaps Sall in Norfolk and 
Great Saling in Ess 
f the growth of the Yew tree we have the evidence 
afforded by a Ewhurst in Sussex, another i abes 
and a third in Kent. ave besides Ewelme 
ames of places give 
s specific n 
indication of the particular trees which had their early 
i is island, and m p. 
it abundantly evident 
n its surface had great 
their aao 2 proof of ae Eos 
urally gr g 
ne ry. "s 
have Broadhurst a u 
in Warw анаа. Brockenhurst, 
an S r 
Lyndhurs nt dà 
Sussex, Deerhurst in Gloucester, ae 7, in Hert- 
үү = j 
fordshire e have also nceux in Sussex, | 
and Sissinghurst i in Kent, "Sha another term - 
for a wood or a Cleiton. ‘of trees "e from it we 
е Раа, the wooded hill, in ee m, Open- 
caster, Shawbury in Shropshire, Shawell 
in Leicester, апа Shaw-cum-Dornington in Berks, &c. © 
e have Grove ж Backingham and 
Nottingham, Poteprown in Be 18 і 
Worcester, Bolgrove i n p Бу іп 
mpto om the Saxon Wid, a Me 
D Worst- 
i c. 
in som Walthamstow in Esse well as Abbey 
W pt Waltham, and Lit Waltham in 
Essex DB eg eer and N Waltham in | 
Hampetiire e Lawrence. Walt ‘ham ga DN and 
Waltham- on -the- Wolds e have з 
ы зе Тһеп 
"Walden in "Hertford, "Saffron "Walden in 
and T have in Ken 
St. gk 
tower of th S pod Thor in the woo 
as well as the Boheimerwald, or В lack Forest in 
all belo of. 
“In conclusion, we may be allowed to notice one 
wo misce instances o 
t the names of 
from. the Spanish. d the hr 
in 
жес, is 
ounty o 
amid Yew trees ; Clarendon, in Wilts, in 
wn of the rive 
Coi Haro, in oe parish of Р. in Inverness, 
тесоей i in x Radsoeshire, indicate a town 
; Valladolid is the vale of the Olives | 
The town in " Hindostan cal ans the - 
Bamhoo fo n an nam 
-tamar, boi the H 
indicates thati in that part of the tribe of ums an 
image o of Ba was set up among the Palm : 
mi 
use - 
ment, and information which lie шен in our | 
old terme, and are quite enough to prov 
— 
^ deg omen of «е 
ше, і 
of Air i in Ireland, signifies ‘the AL nship | 
cates à 
wood. Trefycoed in Cardigan- | 
e that the | 
