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‘SEPTEMBER 19, 1874.] 
THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
359 
of the country, and so suggestive of rural loveliness 
as regards the haunts and homes of the earliest wild 
flowers In the presence of it we scarcely care to 
ember even old Homers ‘‘ soft pardons of 
Violets. si 
Des by the way, we are reminded that Shak- 
spea mself is no infallible demigod, but human 
in his rs and deficiencies, like all other men, and 
therefore in degree so muc 
_por ene for he likewise places 
‘ wane, unless quite Ra, yin 
do not grow 
“ When Daisies wild and 14 sa blue, 
Lagi 
ma 
o paint the dami with delight,” 
mind : ie AL asl are omer en infinitely by 
who o consider the 
Poss 
more TOER than by getting into the con- 
ceited habit of searching for errors and blemishes 
instea i 
f inst the true and genuine Violet, 
the V. odorata of modern heims, being the et s the 
Viola of the ancients, except in particular ances, 
is sand pa in the pron of any a to 
the sce: There i is a celebra in Horace 
when, dbg the advance of iter oe says that i if 
gs go on as they do, the Olive sik at Shean once 
so fruitful, will give place to groves yrtle and 
beds of Violets, diffusing odours. t sabes 
of the prim 
p p Te om: One passage has been quote 
s foun in the comparison pe their 
s tate s brea 
the thrice-familiar r pont we by Salisbury i = “Kine 
Foh 
“ To guard a title that was rich befo 
To gild refined gold, to paint | aa Liy, 
1 
Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.” f 
Shakspeare’s associations a ne Violet Me the spring 
are also of aie a 
; himse 
Who are the Vises no 
n lap of the new-come aioe rg 
+ A Violet in the Se gy Nature, 
ot permanent.” || 
No one, either, before "Pmi ever thought of 
flowers coming of the dissolution of the fair and 
chaste :— 
' the earth ; 
And from kar fair Feat ‘anpaia uted fles 
May. Violets spring. _I tell thee, hamish priest, 
A minist'rin, r be 
When thou fest owing.” 
_Or of a comparison more delicate than Perdita’s— 
* Violets dim, 
But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes,” ** 
appears to involve an allusion to the 
wi anis the petals of which, exqusitely half- 
utant, are not Senilai in purity even by the eyelids 
hi a 
of the ter of Saturn. That in the dark-hued 
varieties Shakspeare noticed the ‘‘ blue veins ” upon 
the petals, he tells us in the poem of “‘ enus and 
Adonis.” Inthe feudal times pe Violet was the 
emblem of fi 
opin Ballot tet it side” 
AF nce when, in Hamlet, Ophelia 
when = ey father 
o the 
course t conduct of the queen. Zeo. 
= airia. 
Grindon, 
FICUS BLASTICA, * 
Iris but seldom that the India-rubber Fig, ee 
» produces fru . in this country, on which 
c have rough Aeren ie (fig. 76) of 
the fruits cof apt in the ag of the leaves of 
Act iv., se. 2. 
Act i, Sc. 3 
dein iv. 3. 
dy ssey, tamna 
EAE at vy $2 
++ Wini 
gives the herbs 
HAMILTON PALACE GARDENS. 
THESE gardens, as is generally known, have been 
remodelled within the last dozen years, a 
exon gly w 
father m on of 
in the ex spenr: way, but it is due to the present noble 
eer to say that he has i i 
ing. . Currie, th 
ead anh ner, is indeed ‘hs = Aew well i 
s to be complimented for his ‘ehaaer 
The Palace itself is one of the noblest piles that our 
Fic, 76,—Ficus ELASTICA IN FRUIT. 
ocracy can boast of, only it it has not been set down 
if the most eligible position. If the estate or the 
ark had beetr limited in size there might have been 
some excuse for this ; but when we see that it covers 
with in the iene en Scot , we cannot but 
ed r at te- low level of the site 
Hamilton. 
Taking it, however, Mg = all its faults, hak is admirable 
Belts of timber me t it ou a fro ; 
far as the e rea 2 ii 
of the p irean character, ks of the 
adzow est, ttle 
ting down a. trees in salient positions, but has 
chosen clumps, s o as to give ten is to the distant 
use appointe iving,” before his scenic 
effects can be fully developed, a he that plants trees 
ass a tribute of 
true Te dscape planter, e Oak and the Beech, 
the Elm and the Lime 
the Horse Chestn 
trees for individual planting—cross your eye as 
promenade, and giv Be gnity and ebid to the 
ground which they aa 
around Hamilton Palace is one of the 
best examples of adorned park scenery which we ever 
had the pleasure to witne There is solidity with- 
cut confusion—the park in all its distinctness, the 
trees in all their beauty of outline, as individual: 
as taking position in clu nd in avenue lines, 
without emerging into the forest or givi idea of 
a jumble together of forest par ees 
ausoleum, on the right wing, but at ful 
tance fro alace, conce by suitable 
vegetation ; you can only catch a glimpse of its squat 
glass dome, some 150 feet vag tad t le 
rising above the tree-tops. It is a perfect sample of 
asonry, Poe sig so than a ftiodlal of ore parr ; 
an and the D who conceived and carried out the 
ines hy lies in a n dercophies in the temple above the 
uce to this sort of description. Let 
ook to 
its elaborate Corinthian column massive entabla- 
t is panel has been laid out for purposes of 
ornamental flower-gardening, effective Pod 
rooms generally 
Bre present. 
Miles may z 
; 2 EE 
te a M mae s 
lace for parterre Ma pet pure and 
` simple, "in this case the design is a series of e- 
trical beds without „much of what one would | call 
h | 
is the so rt of p 
out plants, they look very attractive. „Mr. Currie has 
Cal b 
yy ou] 
until now he has it about as complet an ne a es 
to the w. whole fu 
as it is possible wik the e grou 
t gives an air of easi 
paa, Irish Yew or sher with ' 
e oe 
ibbon reover the designer had his 
pon ate disposition of yellow in “his designs. 
It isa ot ey, colour, and if n kept well aa da 
i i an at 
d destroy; w. 
a = Vi 
She Vi pr 
ot pirme telling amazin 
e soft and decided 
mazingly where well we er 
Aeri eee eg ot Gold is another süpérb plan 
beating even the reno 4 es ie for a cleat 
rrara oes of eli here well, of 
ollock is mer P but I look vee Cloth 
of “Gold as mae more splendid. And then 
Zonal at ere is nothing to beat Vesuvius; it is the fore- 
most a ong bed ng Zonal ge and who 
that h wer garden out the varie- 
gated Tasob's Ladder (Polemonium based and 
variegated Thyme? These, in the hands of a 
arming plants for efte r 
planter, are two ch 
delight everybody. — 
work ae th 
colours 
