THE 
NOVEMBER 6, 1875.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
579 
BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS, 
FOR WINTER AND SPRING, 
: C. EASY OF CULTURE 
Seedsmen to Carriage Free. 
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SUTTONS’ 
‘CHOICE COLUECTIONE 
Seedsmen to the 
PUN: 
RRS Rene O 
the Queen. Prince of Wales. 
FLOWER ROOTS. 
For ена FLOWERING, Open Ground, 
5S., тоз. 62. , 21$., and 42s. each, Carriage Free. 
For SUMMER and AUTUMN, eter er 
то, Ód., 215., and 42s. each, Casting 
For WINTER and SPRING, Pots rer Classes, 
тоз. 6d., 21$., and 42s. each, Carriag 
Hyacinths. 
Named Varieties for 
Pots and Glasse 
From Mr. WILLIAM 
Hickman, Gri to the 
Rt. Hon. Viscount 
bic iud Bletching- 
Е cm nary 28.— “I 
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the чы inths аге 
bloo: ery well in- 
deed, in “fact, the best 
r had, 
the Rev. C. J. 
us olt Rectory 
Worc 
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very much admired. 
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gero 5. —“ The 
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ally fine." T: 
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12in 4 о 20| 12іп ө 20 
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1875. 
—— AP——— 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING IN 
ONSHIRE, 
AVING been born in the very prettiest 
art of quite the prettiest of counties, a 
part 
ramble lately in Devonshire occasioned a 
U 
how ugly is a fertile flat, how inconvenient the 
ague! І had been a visitant in most counties, 
but had never seen Devonshire, i now, 
having done so, it seems to me to be desirable 
to see Surrey аА 4 а ifit be not in- 
comparable. Abov I must revisit that pic- 
turesque land of tics hills and corresponding 
dells and vales, between Dorking and Guild- 
ford, and especially * St. Martha's Hill," where 
you can perch and pic-nic, if you рл, ироп а 
ed сот which you will rrey. ere 
a tching influence dts Mog to birth- 
pides which саре wallows back to their chim- 
neys, and men to their villages. Not very far 
from St. Martha's Hill the earth was laid lately 
on the head of a stranger who had returned 
to his birthplace in his coffin, forgotten, but 
unable to forget while memory held. But in 
spite of this common love of our early 
ur. many of us perhaps who had the misfor- 
e to be born, even near St. Martha's Hill, a 
little too long ago, w 
n for ү» while 
the Dart glides below die а 
The peculiar beauties of Dini are as 
widely spread around this hill and church as 
those of Surrey are around St. Martha's Chapel, 
and the same effective agents—fire and water— 
were employed by Nature in shaping the surface 
of the two pr It may be 
that when fire 
the landscape gardening of a country, the result 
is striking, as in the Highlands or around Dol- 
gelly, where Cader Idris wears a Plutonic 
crown, and many of the mountains are capped 
with intrusive trap and serpentine. The tricks 
the landscape 
those 
nite of D 
thrust up the strip of limestone which surrou 
it, and which enriches the corn land and pas- 
turage of Drewsteignton, and, in fact, of every 
parish that lies thereon. at Exeter: as 
to the most delectable Sistas in the land of 
es which were par- 
al map, upon the blue strip of 
ink which repre- 
sents the granite of Dartmoor. Beauty in land- 
scapes is often moored to granite, or anchored 
in its immediate neighbourhood, as it is here. 
It is here, too, that the prettiest lanes are found. 
There is one winding up the hill to the church 
at Buckfastleigh, a path through a pasture, over 
a stone stile of many tons and between 
s of earth and stone, with Hazel hedge 
above and a fernery below, with glimpses of 
orchards to remind you that this parish only 
yields the palm for cider to the celebrated 
Staverton, a few miles lower down the Dart. 
Limestone, the best of rocks for grass, is not a 
bad one for Apples, which find here convenient 
y on its outskirts, 
enclosing a uM boggy, barren waste, which 
is generally bar d not unlike a rolling sea 
turned to stone, like the gian 
and carpeted with vegetation: to the tops of 
those brown heaving billows of granite crested 
with tors. 
The resemblance to the deep furrows 
of a troubled ocean can easily enough be 
imagined in the valleys of Dartmoor, which run 
irregularly, but tend southward to the gap by 
which the D escapes from the hills and 
enters the oods of Buckland. Т 
ugged forest, devoid of timber, form 
a capital foil to the smoother beauties of 
the surrounding country, where th just 
named—built of limest and granite—shine 
ran 
white in their respective hollows, with hills at 
back and front, and others outside, 
distinctive features of thi 
astleigh, leans, meditatin 
upon the side of one of those shapely pits of his, 
he listens to the noisy Dart, sometimes called 
the darting Dart, and ponders on its share in 
creating the surrounding landscape. In Surrey 
the work of water—z.z., of the Wealden Lake— 
consisted in washing the faces of the little jc 
during their upheaval. Around Dartmoor 
streams and rivulets performed the prim 
work of unter the country with deep channels, 
way, could hardly have been 
hed by rivers of i size that 
Water often runs or rests in 
the depressions formed by the force of subter- 
ranean fire. Elevation of surface on an exten- 
sive scale is supposed to have formed the cavi- 
ties occupied now by several seas and a string 
of lakes in Northern Europe. 
The after-effects of water are annually re- 
newed, and were seen to advantage last August 
in a landscape of exceptional green, from ex- 
aking 
great Cistercian abbey that 
drives the machinery 
enlivens a lonely spot, and if it did not rend 
those limestone cliffs above its opposite banks, 
it gave them foliage, draped the steep hanger . | 
higher up the stream, painted the meadows on 
its margin, and the foliage of hedge and tree, 
been particularly liberal, and in t 
Buckfastleigh there is often ii and always a 
river, and hence there are p mixed with 
cornfields and dotted with sede саш, running 
as the eye can anywhere delight in. 
All this district is celebrated for Ferns. 
Perhaps Ashburton is head-quarters for them. 
In alliance with Hazel and other common plants 
they hide the materials of the field fences, con- 
vert a stonewall country (the fences being of 
stones and на h) into a green country, o 
not disdain cottages or pig-styes. I obser = 
wallat йени. literally green with Азин | 
to Fer 
Trichomanes. Next erns 
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