September 9, 1899. 
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Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER gth, 1899. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, September nth.—Sale by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris 
at Mr. H. B. May’s Nursery Upper Edmonton. 
Tuesday, September T2ih.—R.H.S. Meeting at Drill Hall; 
Auction Sale by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris at Messrs. B. 
Mailer & Sons’ Nurseries, Burnt Ash Road, Lee. 
Wednesday, September 13th.—Royal Caledonian Horticultural 
Society’s Show ia Waverljy Market, Edinburgh (j days); 
Messrs. Protheroe & Morris' Auction Sale at the Nurseries 
ot Mr. J. Fraser, South Woodford. 
Thursday, September 14th.—Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
Auction Sale at the Nurseries of Mr. J. Mailer (Mrs. 
Thomson), Brimsdown, Enfield Highway. 
Friday, September 15th.—Auction Sale by Messrs. Protheroe 
& Morris, at the Longlands Nursery, Sidcup, by order of 
Messrs. Gregory & Evans (ieeond sale). 
Jf|i T RFORD Lodge, Dorking.— At whatever 
season a visit is made to this, the 
residence of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 
there is always something interesting to see, 
discuss and study, but particularly during 
the summer months, from June to Septem¬ 
ber. The president of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society is one of the keenest of 
plant lovers; hence the reason that his 
garden is always well stocked with plants 
of a vastly varied description, many of 
which, both under glass and in the open air, 
are far from being common or generally 
cultivated. Burford Lodge nestles close 
under the steepest escarpment of Box Hill, 
which rises with remarkable abruptness 
from the River Mole, which, in our opinion 
is responsible for the North Downs in 
Surrey being cut through at this point. 
The steep, almost perpendicular, slope on 
this side, no doubt owes the preservation 
of its steepness to the fact that the white 
chalk is thickly clothed with sombre Yews 
and Beech, now much embrowned with the 
summer heat and drought, but remarkably 
fresh compared even with trees of the same 
species grown in the sandy alluvium near 
the Thames in the vicinity of London. 
There is also a sprinkling of White Beam 
trees, White Poplars, wild Cherries and 
other subjects that enliven the hill side, 
especially when stirred with a gentle 
breeze. The effects of the sinking sun 
upon this arboreal picture would make a 
study in themselves for the landscape 
painter. We went to see the garden, how 
ever, and finding Mr. W. Bain, the genial 
gardener, we were soon deeply engrossed 
in the study of the rich collections of 
plants. 
Sir Trevor believes in cultivating plants 
under more natural conditions than usually 
obtain ; and with that object in view many 
subjects usually grown in stoves or green¬ 
houses are grown in the open air during 
summer with most satisfactory results. One 
of the most striking plants at present is a 
large plant of Solanum Wendlandii trained 
to a wall in a sheltered corner close to the 
entrance of several of the glass houses. It 
was planted out at the end of May, com¬ 
menced flowering in June, and at present is 
a sight worth seeing. The foliage is 
leathery and healthy, and great trusses of 
bloom are fully expanded, while others yet 
in bud will keep up the disp'.ay till the 
advent of frost. The plant is lifted and 
taken indoors in winter. Its congener S. 
seaforthianum is planted in the open ground 
and trained to supports ; it has finer foliage 
than we have ever seen under glass, and is 
laden with darker flowers. Next year it is 
to be trained over an arch in summer. 
Aristolochia elegans is flowering and fruit¬ 
ing alongside of S. Wendlandii. Here also 
Antigonon leptopus is being tried, but is 
not yet strong enough to flower, Swain- 
sonia galegifolia spendens is a richly 
coloured variety ; the white one, S. g. alba 
is very floriferous trained on a pillar. 
Near these plants are some tanks contain¬ 
ing such Water Lilies in bloom as Nym- 
phaea devoniensis, and a variety of N. 
stellata ; while seedlings of a white species 
from the Soudan are approaching that 
stage. In an open area between the houses 
is a collection of hybrid Nymphaeas in 
tubs sunk in the ground, and which Pave 
been flowering for a long time. The crim¬ 
son-red N. ellisiana is very handsome. 
A varied and prolonged display is pro¬ 
duced by other exotic and tropical or warm 
country subjects more or less sheltered by 
the glasshouses, but in the open. A large 
plant of Romneyi Coulteri, with its huge, 
white Poppy blooms, put out in spring, 
flowered freely. Roscoea purpurea, at the 
foot of the wall, has been blooming for 
some time past. Very pretty and uncom¬ 
mon are Alstroemeria peregrina and A. p. 
alba, the former being dark rose along the 
centre of the segments, and spotted on the 
