580 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE: 
[NOVEMBER 6, 1875. 
hills are the most —Ü чер We know 
how they w the land has been 
мекан up and неа: over by the irresistible 
agent below; but in spite of one's information 
one often wonders upon the declivities, whether 
it was really for the sake of the picturesque 
that the hills should so often and so suddenly 
slope the other way, and why new hills should 
have been commenced instead of the old ones 
having been continued. And then again, why 
do the lanes wind and sidle up and down, high 
and low, curved and crooked and always several 
feet beneath the general level of the land, each 
being based upon a Fernery and over-arched 
with Hazel? As I have so y eii said and shall 
never forget, here are reasons for the pecularity 
the lanes, which bring me to another 
and water it 
be said that an equally un- 
conscious landscape gardener, a busybody 
some few hundred е "piens in 
ery much occupied 
upon the surface, and is solely ые for the 
The work was 
doubt, - .purposes that were obvious at the 
time when' it was effected, but it is impossible 
now to comprehend all the turnings, twistings, 
and contortions, always accompanied by Hazels 
and nutting in the season, of the very numerous 
lanes. Their great de epth of from 2 o 
feet sometimes on the sides of hills ma ай be 
attributed to the washing of water, which has 
gradually carried the materials of soft roads or 
lanes down the slope to lower levels ; but the 
rest is a mystery. There is no reason to sup- 
pose that our predecessors were more romantic 
in their ideas, or naturally more queer than our- 
selves. They knew the way out of a wood as 
well as we do, and yet we have those wonderful 
and quite inexplicable lanes about Ashburton 
other Hazels and incessant 
windings, and n uent obscurity openin 
into ial view as | you pass along, are quite a 
other agricultural poi there would still 
› ha ave been suffic cient: reason -why 
ases. ae. is no “disputing their 
he p e 
and whatever the lanes might once have be 
we now have them in full Sintesi but w 
duced to improve upon her proceedings. The 
same rule holds in plantations, and, in fact, in 
every part of that small patch of country round 
a man's dwelling, which may be lost in a wider 
landscape, but may soon be found unsightly 
within itself, unless * Nature," already fenced 
by park paling, be Pica with taste and skill. 
A wide prospect is not marred by a railway, a 
mere thread drawn across ik but its intrusion 
a false plea of imitating 
All is a MAR among the hills 
around Dartmoor, and, read a lon 
lecture here, all should be pet fitting and har- 
monious in smaller domains by Art. H. 
Evershed. 
New Garden Plants. 
MASDEVALLIA MELANOXANTHA, &chd, f. * 
his is a rare Me pe which I have not seen for 
several years. a discovery of Louis Schlim, 
Director maie s add assiduous half-brother, who 
ured me a short time before his death with 
about the products of his most 
- found it at end Later it 
. age- 
or Linden’s living 
plants came from both those a travellers, this 
species having been one of the first Masdevallias 
which flowered in Europe. Consul Schiller possessed 
a large mass obtained from M, Linden. Lately I 
received from Mr. Bulla flower gathered once more 
at Осайа by my most energetic countryman [we 
regret to add—the late], M. Bruchmüller, Finally, 
and most probably from M. Bruchmiiller’s sales, 
4 pe X% Mr. H. E. Canty, 44, Catherine Street, 
wild plant has leaves upwards of т foot high, ` 
base, then 
ouch attenuated at their 
(Trochilus, Linden), I cannot say. 
toamong my rich materials. There are finally several 
—five to seven—involute bracts, no doubt developing 
case in M, tovarensis 
The flo of lish inch, or 
even it in their native place. They are t 
remarkably two-lipped e yellow tube is very 
hort, pri th a very small c The 
superior lip is li acuminate, yellowish inside, 
whitish greenish outside, usuall t, and is tly 
ed, no ei narrow, now er broad. 
The inferior oF is much er, usually a little 
shorter, bifid in two triangu 
its anterior third, pe covered with an immense quan- 
tity of small acute brownish | dark warts on its inner 
surface. РИ 
S riddles they remain unan- 
Devonshire bears witness to the perfect — 
scape gardening of Nature, aided by the 
Sinter, Time, and with the opportunity a 
She should, 
The pro- 
windows, or cuts off - pleasant prospects with 
a plantation, is in error, and equally so when he 
makes * Nature" rues У for hedges and 
plantations which Nature never planted, and 
which might be made much more ornamental. 
Nature is a bechter» yi. some timid persons, 
"The outer surface i is pallid whitish 
vi 
eto compare the inferior sepal to a 
jack. The поносе. used to stand very longi 2 
the plants observed by There 
of a more reddish, and z dien of a blackish « погэн 
he la much 
oo big to — any ас to — amidst * the gems” 
which for r the amateur. This 
ving rtd usei i in 6006 8 ime, very often makes 
valuable a tiny little thing. But let us not lift too 
high the veil of trade politics. Æ. G. Rchb., f. 
* Mas devallia melanox 
f. — 
li; apice tandem | e 
PE mM ; floribus hete- 
arrecto int Бе абака асобн 
fuo: rx inferiori incus EN e bif o е trian- 
perficie int uriculata ; tepalis ligulatis 
Desi nt semihastatis i 
extus 
каеш. luferius atro 
brunneum nneum. 
segnes Rchb. f., x, Bonplandia, LOW абз; Walp. 
Annal. vi, 190. — --In Nova Grana xta Осайат. 
TRESSADY LODGE, 
THE RESIDENCE OF С. B. CRAWLEY, Eso. | 
THis place is situated in a beautiful part of. 
Sutherland, on the southern slope of Tressady Hill, | 
and about 2 miles from Rogart Station on the High- 
land Railway. | 
From the high ground at Tressady commanding 
views are obtained of— 
А se of I heath T SORT wood, 
of mountain and E 
The n ы ы mansion agi upwards, і is toler- | 
ably well wooded nearly to the summi | 
Pug и 
our fee Miet dap outh, is a pretty valley, studded 
with old-fashioned Highland cottages, each about the | 
centre of a small patch of cultivated к= and each | 
also invari ack of peats cut - 
» | 
valley is named Tarral Sid 
with a few huts and cot 
a few а іп а нт round the basemen 
the house ; and, with the exception of some planta- 
tions to south-east by age drive o: 
Rogart, A surroundings were wood and rough 1 
land. A considera те addition has [oem built to thal 
mansion, while the 
your readers, and, judging 
from the нефар ae S he has effected at Tressady, 
an genn NES cape gardener, 
the course of excavating - the ө майа 
apok Lio oem e into 
will prove a vafosfile acquisition to our hardy bedd ing 
olas. 
Vi 
wer garden 
of the flo being - 
the flowers are seen to бы, best advantage. | 
irregular shape 
bet: with easy ich e ody do away with 
any appearance of "tifiness or formality. Some of 
the beds yp with masses | 
partly planted wi 
of choice evergreens, and brightened up round the - 
edge with flowering. ng plants while the smaller beds are 
filled w arias, an 
variety of bedding pi plants, the hole fc forming a charm- 
ace a masses of 
ing picture. The i f a few | 
choice evergreens in the з has an "ооа 
effect in keeping the garden in мэй with th | 
undings. 3 
During the progress of the alterations a quantity of. 
old trees dad to т t дозуп; the old gnar 
ex these have been 
while a central walk 
