NOTES ON SOME CORNISH GARDENS. 



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Tkees. 



EucahjiHus glohosus : I noted a fair specimen or so, one about 

 50 feet high. But I cannot admire this tree. If it is beautiful anywhere, 

 it is not in this country. 



The following conifers, among others, succeed well at Carclew, viz. 



Fseudo-Larix Kcempferi. 



Taxodium distichum. 



Ginko hiloha (80 feet high). 



Picea morinda (syn. Picea Smithiana), a splendid specimen of a 

 beautiful tree. 



Picea (?) Alhertiana. 



Betinospora ohtusa (45 feet high, planted thirty years ago). 

 Sequoia se7npervirens (about 90 feet high), a valuable timber tree. 

 Pimts patula (young trees). 

 P. Ayacahuite. 

 Cupressiis macrocarpa. 



It is evident that the Himalayan Picea Smithiana will succeed well 

 in other than cold or Alpine climates. The cause of non-success with 

 this tree in many places is probably traceable to injuriously high summer 

 temperatures. I think this is one of the trees which should be tried in 

 Ireland. 



The specimen of Ginko at Carclew is the tallest I have seen, but the 

 specimen at Chiswick House, Middlesex, is equally beautiful. 



Eetinospora ohtusa, under favourable conditions, is evidently not 

 the slow-growing tree it is in some localities. 



Some of the Mexican Coniferae have done very well at Carclew, yet 

 there are signs in many cases that their growing period has almost, if 

 not quite, come to an end, and that the trees will never attain the stature 

 they do in Mexico. 



All the above ten species of conifers I noted in the beautifully wooded 

 grounds of Carclew, where those which were mature had reached noble 

 proportions. At Trewidden a great number of rare and beautiful conifers 

 had been planted, and most of them looked the picture of health, but 

 sufficient time had not elapsed for them to be classed as forest trees. In 

 another twenty years it will be possible to form an opinion of their 

 suitability for permanent planting in the Penzance district. 



In Penzance gardens such genera as Eetinospora, Thuja, and 

 Gupressus (Chameecyparis) flourish amazingly up to a certain size, and 

 the golden garden varieties are specially noticeable for their beauty of 

 colouring. Gupressus macrocarpa aurea, which I consider the best of all 

 golden shrubs, was more beautiful in some of these gardens than in any 

 other places where I have seen it growing. The type of Gupressus 

 macrocarpa bids fairly well to become a tree, and should be largely 

 planted. Cedars are absent from the gardens of Penzance. 



Rhododendeons. 



Although Rhododendrons revel in the climate of South-west Cornwall, 

 it is not so with the deciduous section we used to class under Azalea 

 sinensis. These evidently want a drier and cooler winter and a hotter 



