THE GARDENS OF WARLEY PLACE. 
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apple trees, and among them the rarely seen Essex Spice-Apple, 
the garden is now given almost wholly to flowering trees and 
shrubs, which do well, for the sun can shine upon them, and they 
are amply protected from cold wimds. Bushes of various 
Himalayan Rhododendrons, growing without peat, in the natural 
soil, have attained the height of fourteen or fifteen feet, and 
flourish freely. Amongst these are R. arhoreum, cinnamomum, 
gloxiniflorum, shilsoni, fulgens, barbatum, aucklandi, thompsoni, 
and others. Rhododendron jalconeri bears a few trusses of flowers 
in favourable seasons. These Rhododendrons have accommodated 
themselves wonderfully to conditions which here obtain, and 
flourish as they rarely do in a bleak country. 
Other shrubs in this garden are Citrus trijoliata, which 
flourishes well and bears fruit. Colletia spinosa nine feet high, 
Pilosporum tenuifloruni fourteen feet high, Raphiolepis ovata ten 
feet in diameter, Erica codonodes ten feet high, around which 
seedlings come up spontaneously and freely, and a bright coloured 
E. mediterranea, nearly as tall. Various Magnolias flourish well 
and a tree of Eucalyptus coccijera is forty feet high, and flowers 
and fruits every year. It has passed unscathed through all the 
inclement weather of the last twenty years. 
Against the wall are fine flourishing plants of Rhyncospermum 
jasminoides variegatum, which bears myriads of sweet scented 
blossoms every year. Billardiera longiflora, Edwardsia micro - 
phylla, Clematis cirrhosa, with its varieties balearica and 
calycina, Bignonia Mme. Galen, a very free flowering variety of 
B. grandiflora. 
Herbaceous plants are cultured here in a natural way, which 
suits their requirements admirably. All the old favourites are 
to be found as well as the novelties which are coming in 
almost daily. It was in this garden that th ePhloxes showed such 
grand vistas of floral colouring when it was visited by the Essex 
Field Club in 1911. 
The little village of Great Warley is near by, and was in years 
past probably of more importance than now. It is a quiet 
country village, with its old time green and inn. Roses and 
Jasmins climb around the village casements, and wallflowers 
edge the paths ; there are flowers in the old cottage windows 
and glimpses of gay little gardens. The village appears to have 
been inspired with a love of flowers by its neighbour,Warley Place. 
