THE GARDENS OF WARLEY PLACE. 
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Growing among the Nut-bushes is Lathraea squamosa, our 
only indigenous representative of the genus, whilst upon the roots 
of Poplars and Willows are large masses of that more showy and 
more beautiful parasite, Lathraea clandestina, from the Basque 
country. Bamboos, Willows, and Himalayan Rhododendrons, 
Sea-Buckthorns, and Spindle-trees grow as though friendly 
neighbours from the same locality. 
The lawn recalls the beautiful stretches of green sward around 
the Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, and is no doubt of great 
age. There is a fine specimen of Araucaria imbricata, upwards of 
forty feet high, with its lower branches sweeping to the ground. 
It was brought to England with the first shipload of these plants 
which arrived. An unusually fine specimen of Quercus ilex 
bounds the lawn on one side, and some sweet Chestnuts serve as 
a break to the westerly gales, which, if unchecked, would speedily 
devastate this part of the garden. Amongst trees in this part of 
the garden are some very fine Elms, and a group of Oaks of 
great age, but still full of strength and vigour. 
Turning to John Evelyn’s old walled-in garden, one could 
imagine oneself back into the seventeenth century, were it not 
for the plants of recent introduction, for the garden mainly 
keeps to its old world aspect. Evelyn’s apricots have now made 
way for flowers, and the south wall now gives support to the 
tender Berberis fremoyitii, whilst high above the wall Cytisus 
virgatus, Elceagnus argenteus, and the pink July-flowering Acacia 
neo-mexicana breaks the straight outline against the sky. 
A grand sight in summer is Solanum crispum, with a thick 
trunk and spreading branches, covered vYith large purple flowers 
of such unusually large dimensions that the plant is rarely recog¬ 
nized by botanists at first sight. Equally beautiful, and still 
more unusual in this part of England, is the red flowered Pome¬ 
granate, Punica granatum, growing more than four feet over the 
nine foot wall. This flowers so profusely that a Cornishman who 
saw it could not recollect having seen a finer specimen in 
his favoured county. Berberidopsis, Lardizabala, Stauntona, 
Cnnodendron, and Apios tuberosa have also places upon the walls. 
In a dry, sunny corner of this garden is a mount which 
sufficiently fulfils the conditions required by the Cacti, and induces 
several varieties of Opuntias to flower and bear fruit.. Agaves, 
Echeverias, Mesembryanthems, and other succulents withstand 
