November 26, lb98. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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12 ft. high; F. Display, rose, shaded violet; and F. 
marginata, a light variety. A fine batch of Salvia 
splendens on the shelves, Mr. Wright humorously 
said, "did good service under many names.’’ 
Leading off from the conservatory is an interest¬ 
ing Fern rockwork, sunk below the ground level for 
about three parts of its height. Ferns, Begonia 
Rex in variety, &c., grow luxuriantly here. On the 
east aspect of the mansion are the orchard houses 
and the old vineries. The fruits in the former were 
mostly gathered, but the Vines were mostly in full 
bearing. The Vines of Muscat of Alexandria are 
between sixty and seventy years of age, yet they 
bore a heavy crop of bunches just then ripe, and in 
many cases beautifully finished and amber-tinted. 
The young Vines of Black Hamburgh, Madresfield 
fine houses, side by side and parallel, but all con¬ 
nected along their north ends by means of a corridor, 
behind the back wall of which are the stokeholes, 
bothies, and potting benches, so that plants being re¬ 
potted need not be taken outside at all. Everything 
here is always spick and span, and never without 
flowers of various kinds from January to December. 
The corridor itself is always interesting, if only for 
the great variety of climbers, some or other of which 
are in flower at all times. On this occasion, par¬ 
ticularly fine were Pelargoniums, Heliotropes, 
Bougainvillea sanderiana, Begonia metallica (.8 ft. 
high by 6 ft. wide), and Lasiandra macrantha (14 
ft. high and 8 ft. wide), both the latter being very 
floriferous. 
No. 7 is practically a conservatory, and perennially 
Canham, C. oenanthum superbum, C. grande, C. 
chamberlainianum, C. leucorrhodum, and C. Ash- 
burtoniae expansum Cooksonii, the best form 
measuring about 5J in. across the petals. One 
scape carried twin flowers, the dorsal sepal measur¬ 
ing 2§ in. across. Somewhat curious was a seedling 
Cypripedium, having a variegated scape, the colour 
running through one of the petals. C. Mrs. G. 
Botterill is another of Mr. Wright’s hybrids, and a 
very pretty one. The dorsal sepal had a dark purple 
centre, with broad white margins. The lateral 
sepals were also more or less coloured. 
The stove is always filled with a wealth of fine 
foliage plants, and on this occasion particularly 
noticeable were Anthurium warocqueanum, Cyano- 
phyllum magnificum and Ananassa saliva variegata, 
The Parterre, Falkland Park. 
Court, and Muscat of Alexandria carried many 
grand bunches. 
The propagating pits and cool Orchid houses are 
situated at the back of the principal range, and here 
some hundreds of seedling hybrid Orchids were un¬ 
dergoing the process of re-potting into thimbles and 
thumb pots, the compost used having been sterilised 
by boiling water to keep down weeds of the lower 
orders and destroy insects, &c. In this house are 
many interesting foliage plants, including Pellionia 
pulchra and P. daveanana in fine condition 
One of the neighbouring houses contained fine 
batches of Cyclamen, twelve months old, Begonia 
Gloire de Lorraine and Saintpaulia ionantha, all in 
bloom. Amongst the cool Orchids was a very fine 
variety of Odontoglcssum vulcanicum. 
The principal range, almost new, consists of seven 
filled with hard and soft-wooded greenhouse flower¬ 
ing plants. Noticeable at this time were large 
baskets suspended from the roof, and having long, 
pendent stems of the beautifully variegated Nepeta 
Glechoma variegata, which does well under glass, 
though a hardy British plant. A pleasing adjunct to 
this house is the rockery, fresh with Ferns, and 
mixed with flowering Orchids in spring and summer. 
Seasonable Orchids then in flower in the next 
house were Cattleya Loddigesii, Pleione Lagenaria, 
Odontoglossum grande, and several fine varieties of 
Laelia pumila of the recent grand importation. 
In one of the East Indian houses were many 
Cypripediums in bloom, including the beautiful C. 
Io grande, one of the best forms, having two-thirds 
of the length of the petals richly marked with black 
spots. Well known and fine things are C, Charles 
with yellow and deep red edges. Choice flowering 
subjects were Dipladenia hybrida, Aeschynanthus 
speciosus and Ae. lobbianus. 
In a cooler house close by were fine batches of 
Bouvardias from root cuttings, Rivina laevis, in 
berry, and tall plants of Begonia President Carnot, 
trained to the roof and carrying large cymes of its 
showy fruits and flowers. Another house was filled 
with Tomatos in pots, still fruiting. On the side 
shelves was the variegated and hybrid Campanula 
balchiniana, and a fine batch of Reinwardtia 
trigyna for winter flowering. Very conspicuous 
elsewhere was the edging to the side shelves of Cam¬ 
panula isophylla alba, while the central staging was 
edged with the golden Creeping Jenny, and the red- 
berried Fuchsia procumbens. 
At the far end of the corridor is another cool 
rockery, with dripping fountains, and planted with 
Begonia Rex and choice Ferns in great variety. 
