SEPTEMBER 25, 1875.] 
THLE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
389 
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** Consider the Lilies of the field, how they grow; 
they toil not, neither do they spin ; "but yet I say unto 
his glo not 
you that even Solomon in all ry was 
arrayed like one of these." 
"Dorin g the spring and summer months—for spring 
as well as summer flo ning is a great MADE 
e beds are 
| Digby Wyatt, and completed in two ies 
side of the mansion is a wonderful example of the old 
red Chinese Rose, which flowers profusely during the 
su — - ths, 
within a stone’s-throw of the terrace garden, 
н. іп поЫе Res stands the en rch—**a 
set in a profusion of fo oliage.” The well-kept pleas 
grounds are all around it, and the outlines of sche mis 
] loveliness. 
The churchyard m тегу antique, is mantled and 
festooned with Ros 
of art 
churchyard is a 
though of great age 
branches iss 
branches Nn ng out below, featherin 
round, v4 
yard. 
cs to the фий i is a palatial conservatory, 140 
feet in length by 30 feet in width, designed irá Sir 
The 
Fic. 82,.— VIEW IN THE GROUNDS AT CASTLE ASHBY, 
this most efficient and telling ; orange in E 
Peroffskianum, pegge in 
variety of Viola lutea grandifl d nia 
californica ; cream in Limnanthes grandiflora, which 
is еа dwarfer and larger than ouglasii ; pink 
in Si in 
e 
® 
“ee 
ery ve indee additio 
crimson, rose, and white double Daisies. lue 
and purple were the prevailing hues, but all sree 
toned and balanc 
Beyond this garden БЕ sere the ker isa 
lower one, known Northam ema 
e low beds pe pend 
errace, but vaca above its 
ouble furze 
pias -A E g solid Bath stone, Ed poe 
eis a large dome, an 
s characteristic of а bp 
The occupan 
character, id аде Palms, Tree Ferns 
tenax, iflorum or quercifolium, a 
yd ouse evergreen shrub, ring 
rimson flowers, and whose leaves when they age be- 
These occupy the 
west end is P 
iud 
h clusters n-coloured flowers, very 
showy i in ОЕ. A butilon iy bs Neige, Ruscus 
androgynus, La gr variety 
= гоѕеа ; Sparmannia aq a Y né ouse 
vergreen shrub, bearing c clusters of aie flowers ; 
ena 
yx, a 
eenhouse creeper ; Clematises, &e. I 
range tree, "with an immense id. said to be 
The walks near the tory pass by and under 
the spreading boughs of Cedar of Lebanon, Chestnut, 
Beech, &c. Among them a magnificent Horse Chest» 
nut of enormous dimensions, having huge — 
panas on every hand an win 
eneath, and Mr. Beech stated that "t vena 
literal carpet of bright yellow blossoms in early spring. 
There is a fine Purple Beech close by. 
ext comes a spacious Italian garden i in sunken 
panels in a large space of m бнт итари кат 
such as crimson, red, white, ы gre that is 
upright cordons, from 24 to 3 
cordons to » plan 
picture met Thi wo beds, each 
- fet in ~~ K jo fee in vidt planted with sii 
ne plants, cable fashion, in diagonal bands, 
e as fo 
light playing on it, the effec 
and it afforded a nother usa 
effects can be wrought 
her 
Castle Ashby well deserving of an extended notice, 
asa pl t old- Rose 
a long mixed herbaceous br containing many 
interesting subjects, plant-hou &c., all full of 
- est to the visitor, but space “forbids ег lengthened 
arks. n old-fashioned conservatory, Passiflora 
uis as very fine, ing down in 
wreaths from a back m , and P finely, In 
digne oribunda was’ also ring freely on a 
flow 
outh уь m nd уар an dme s of its ros 
purple 
The sah walks and semi-wild ways at Castle 
be 
ап 
tage Mr. Be lanted early flowering bulbs, 
Primroses, Polyanthus, &c. ; while such things as 
winter Aconites, Narcissi, Crocus, &c., are found in 
plenty. On f the ornamental water are 
some beautiful slopes, on which pretty spring gar- 
ns are fo t art is so lost i t 
abl e a 1 
anthu w here in abu ; the former in many 
shades of colour, and they ча pret intro- 
duced along the y in pano 
under trees, and by masses of underwood, &c. 
w. endeavour to do to these scenes 
undue exagge- 
een it is instinctively fe lt how inade- 
quate language is i transcribe scenes so fair, soft, and 
m beautiful. D. 
ONIONS AT CHISWICK. 
THE trial of Onions made this season at the Royal 
Horticultural Gardens at Chiswick having proved so 
and relative AA of certain амаи 
The following notes were mad a пай careful 
and critical пери of the various DE all of 
which were growing under the same conditions, 
ped under the head of types, and in this 
manner their relative value will 
The season h on the whole. very favourable 
о the production of fine samples Y Onions ; and the 
trial at Chiswi y be said to furnish relative 
evidence as to the character and relative position of 
the numerous TERN submitted for cultivation. Such 
rials are always very instructive, and the results are 
eagerly ues for by many interested persons through- 
out the coun 
White Spanish Type.—Taking now that best known 
of our ordinary garden Onions, the White Spanish or 
o e are ovis face with several assumed new 
varieties that are vend selections made from time to 
et 
