^he Glebelands Collection, 



South Woodford, Essex. 



IN the beautiful, old-fashioned garden at 

 Glebelands, the residence of J. Gurney 

 Fowler, Esq., can be seen many of the 

 arts and crafts of horticulture, and whether it 

 be noble trees and flowering shrubs, or hot- 

 house plants and tender flowers, all alike 

 reflect the enthusiastic interest taken m them 

 by their owner. Shelley's words : 



" All rare blossoms from every clime 

 Grew in that garden in perfect prime," 



may well be used as descriptive 

 of its beauty, for the Orchid 

 houses are well filled with 

 choice exotic specimens selected 

 by one who for many years has 

 been an admirer of all things rare 

 and beautiful in horticulture. 



The range o f 

 greenhouses is de- 

 voted to the cul- 

 ture of many 

 kinds of fruit, de- 

 corative plants, 

 and the safe keep- 

 ing of a world- 

 famed collection 

 of Orchids, from 

 which numerous 

 specimens have 

 frequently been 

 exhibited at the 



Royal Horticultural Society and on many 

 occasions received the highest awards. 



Probably the most pleasure is obtained from 

 the Odontoglossum house, a structure which 

 has been built as near to perfection as pos- 

 sible, and which produces such excellent 

 cultural results as to merit a description of its 

 construction. 



This house is span-roofed, 70 feet long and 

 20 feet wide, all the woodwork having the 



Odontoglossum Jeanetle. 'Tlossii rubescens X amabile. 

 F.C.C. March Nih. 1911. 



bars grooved to carry off the drip, and the 

 glass cut on the curve with the same object. 

 Canvas blinds placed a short distance above 

 the glass are used for shading, and by means 

 of a perforated water-pipe running from end 

 to end along the ridge, the house 

 may be kept cool and damp dur- 

 ing the hot days of summer. 

 On the inside of the brick wall a 

 similar perforated pipe is placed 

 which enables the 

 brickwork t o b e 

 kept continuously 

 moist. These 

 pipes are supplied 

 from the district 

 water mains, and, 

 by means of 

 \ alves, the surplus 

 water is not al- 

 enter the tanks 

 reserved for the 

 storage of rain-water. In 

 front of the four-inch hot- 

 water pipes a wall of loose bricks 

 has been built, and over the top tiles 

 are placed in such a manner that the 

 whole heating system is incased in 

 moisture holding- 

 material. The 

 teakwood staging 

 is raised about two feet above the tiles, thus 

 allowing a free circulation of the moist air 

 which is so conducive to the welfare of Odon- 

 toglossums. 



The adjoining illustrations of a few of the 

 Odontoglossums give a comparatively poor 

 conception of the elegance of the varieties 

 contained in this house. When it is stated 

 that almost the whole of it is occupied by 

 these specially fine forms, the impossibility of 



owed to 

 specially 



