September 16, 1893. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Orchids generally are not a speciality here, but a 
fine lot of Calanthes might be seen bearing one or 
two crowns of leaves each, and from which an 
abundance of bloom may be expected in winter. 
Crotons, Pandanus, Nephrolepis Duffii, N. exaltata, 
and other Ferns are also grown in the pit in plants 
of a useful size. Cypripediums and Oncidium 
flexuosum were flowering in another house, while 
Peristeria elata (the Dove Orchid) was throwing up 
some fine flower spikes. Adiantums in variety 
occupied the opposite benches. 
The garden is encompassed by high brick walls, 
affording an excellent opportunity for fruit culture. 
Wall standards and other forms of Apricot trees 
bore a variable crop, but some of them were loaded 
with fruit at that time well advanced towards 
some are relegated to a piece of ground outside the 
walls of the garden proper. Onions were a good 
crop, and the bulbs had attained a respectable size, 
both in the case of spring and autumn sown lots, not¬ 
withstanding the long continued dry weather and 
burning sun. The early batches of Celery were also 
looking well. Late sown Peas had just been earthed 
up. Sea Kale was healthy and strong as were 
Asparagus, Salsify, Scorzonera and Chicory. 
Several of the borders in the kitchen garden, but 
particularly by the principal and more prominent 
walks, are planted with hardy flowers of various 
kinds, and some of them in quantity for the supply 
of cut flowers, including Campanula persicifolia 
coronaria, Anemone japonica alba, German Irises, 
and Pyrethrums, most of which were over,with excep- 
China Asters, Iceland Poppies, Solidago canadensis, 
Actsearacemosa, Eryngiumamethystinium, Echinops 
Ritro, and others of a similar nature. In other places 
we noted masses of Bocconia cordata, Hemerocallis 
fulva, Malva moschata alba, and a border in which 
hardy flowers were planted in triangular masses. 
The Roses were over for the time being, and one 
could hardly expect them to be otherwise, considering 
the remarkably dry and warm nature of the season 
for four-and-half months previous to the date in 
question. 
The grounds of Wycombe Abbey extend to zoo 
acres, very little of which is on a level, but rises from 
the lake at the bottom to a hill of the chalk forma¬ 
tion. The lower slope is in grass, while the heights 
are clad with umbrageous old Beech and other trees 
Wycombe Abbey, Bucks. 
maturity. Solfle'of the Peach trbes Were also laden, 
but they were even better in another part of the 
garden where a narrow space of ground was sur¬ 
rounded by two high walls. Apples and Pears in 
the same place also varied, but some of them "were 
heavily laden. Morello Cherries were an exception¬ 
ally good crop ; some of them had been gathered, 
and on others the fruits were assuming their final 
dark colour. Some young trees were almost black. 
Raspberries had been good, but had mostly been 
gathered. Bush Apple trees, according to the 
variety, were fruiting heavily. They are kept low 
and well spread out.' 
Vegetables are grown in the squares of ground, 
which are mostly surrounded by fruit trees, but 
tion of the Anemones, which Were then pushing up 
their flower stems. Carnations were plentiful includ¬ 
ing Raby Castle, Red Clove, and a very long bed of 
seedlings fenced round to keep up the flower stems, 
which were really very crowded. The seeds were 
obtained from Martin R.Smith,Esq.,Hayes Common, 
whose collection of fine varieties of his own raising 
is now justly celebrated. Stocks were abundant and 
flowering freely. Hedges of Sweet Peas on either 
side of a walk were in full bloom and fragrant. 
Rudbeckia speciosa and Helianthus multiflorus 
plenus had just commenced to flower, giving a fore¬ 
taste of the yellow autumn flowering Composites 
now so plentiful in every garden. Another border 
was devoted to Phlox Drummondi, Stocks, Zinnias, 
that thrive on such a geological formation. The 
park is divided into two equal portions of too acres 
each. The upper portion has however been recently 
added to the lower, and ornamentally planted. Trees 
planted about twelve years ago are now zo ft. high, 
so that the skirts of the forest wood on the top and 
the flanks of the hill where it recedes into valleys or 
glens, have now become very interesting. About 
thirty-five acres of this portion of the park have 
been specially reserved for the people of Wycombe, 
for the picnics and holiday outings of the church, and 
dissenting schools and other bodies, who have the 
exclusive use of it on special days by prearrange¬ 
ment. Parties from London also sometimes secure 
the use of it. 
