July 23, 1904. 
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Views and Reviews. 
Old Warden Park. 
The above ancient estate is beautifully 
situated at the foot of the low sandhills run¬ 
ning through Bedfordshire, and much sur¬ 
rounded by woods and park trees, some of 
which are evidently of great age and saw 
the light- when gardening was in a much less 
advanced 1 stage than it is to-day. The visi¬ 
tor, on approaching Old Waiden Park, the 
seat of Col. Shuttleworth, passes through a 
small village of houses belonging to the 
estate, and forming quite a model for country 
cottages, such as we seldom meet with in 
the various, counties which we pass through. 
The cottage® are built sufficiently far apart 
to allow of a, good garden behind each or 
more or less surrounding the house', and are 
enclosed in the near distance by the woods 
which crown the low hills. 
We recently had the pleasure of passing 
through the grounds in company with Mi'. 
W. C. Moidrae, the gardener, who has been 
on, the estate for the last thirteen years. In 
the Rose garden, which was only planted 
about two- years ago', we noted some very 
florifewus beds of several of the Roses of 
recent introduction. Madame Abel Cbat- 
tenay, a Hybrid Tea of comparatively recent 
origin, was flowering most profusely with 
bloom’s from 3 in. to 5 in. across of a bright 
salmon-pink. The well-known Mrs. Edwaid 
Mawlt.y, with rose-pink flowers shaded with] 
white, is evidently well adapted for bedding 
purposes. Two small beds were filled with 
1,200 plants of Papa Gontier, another Tea 
Rose, also in splendid form. 
We were greatly interested ini the tall 
trees forming the pleasure grounds of this 
rustic seat-, and noted the 1 trunks oif some 
English Elms in their last stages of decay 
that must have been planted some hundreds 
of years ago, and have now lost, their tops. 
Some trees of the Wych Elm (Ulmus mon- 
tana,), 60 ft,, to 80 ft. high, are still in 
robust vigour, and displayed their charac¬ 
teristic trait, of throwing out in a straggling 
sort of way enormous limbs, each of which 
would make a respectable-sized tree. Quite 
a o-iant in its way was Picea excefsa rianbra-si- 
liana, about 9 ‘ft. high, and, as far a® we 
remember, the tallest- we have seen of this 
phnny variety. The ordinary Norway 
Spruce, however, not very far off, and planted 
at sufficiently remote intervals, shot up to 
the height of 60 ft. to 80 ft. in the form of 
pyramids feathered to the ground, and form¬ 
ing objects of great beauty when, so planted. 
Weare accustomed to see, this- tree confined 
to plantations where the trees are so crowded 
for the purpose of producing timber that 
all the lower branches get killed in the early 
stages of growth. The Honey Locust formed 
a tree about 45 ft. high, and the Sugar Maple 
ran up to 60 ft;., making a finer specimen 
than we usually see-in the case of this hardy 
American species. 
Some of the Portugal Laurels have 
evidently been planted for a, great many 
years', for one, single specimen when spaced 
round about was found to measure 45 yards 
in circumference, forming an, immense, 
dome-shaped mass of foliage in full bloom, 
about the beginning of the month. Skim- 
mia japonic-a,, 5 ft. to 6 ft. high, was also 
a, giant, in its way, as we usually see this in 
the form of hushes 18 in. to 2 ft. high. 
Numerous specimens of the Chinese Juniper 
and other conifers of that, class: formed speci¬ 
mens about 40 ft. high. 
In the lower part, of the grounds wei noted 
a sunk informal garden, with a, flower bed¬ 
ding design in the centre, on the outskirts 
of which vegetation, began, to ascend in the 
form of shrubs, with taller trees behind those 
again tier upon tier, with a green background 
of giant Cedars. Not very far from this 
garden was: a grotto, which felt very cool 
and agreeable owing to its shady character. 
It is built, of Pulhamite stone, and has, the 
pockets or crevices filled with tree and other 
Ferns, thriving beautifully. Amongst them 
we noted a very fine specimen of Wood- 
wardia radio ms, which produced a young 
plant- near the tip of each frond. In, spring 
this grotto, is filled with spring-flowering 
plants from the hothouses, and then forms 
a pleasant retreat, more especially if the 
weather outside; is yet cold and disagreeable. 
A number of the Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga 
Douglasii) form stately specimens 70 ft. to 
80 ft, high, showing that, they can make 
gigantic trees in this country when planted 
m-faitua,tiers where their long slender leaders 
may protected from wind, especially-when 
growth is made. Climbing up one of the 
trees, we noted a specimen of the Traveller’s 
Joy (Clematis Vitalba), reputed to: be two 
hundred years old, and* having a stem of 
enormous- thickness, for a, climber of this 
class. In, other parts- of the ground we came 
upon very old specimens apparently of 
Cupreskus lawsoniana, erecta viridis, varying 
from 12 ft. to 15 ft., and even 35 ft. m 
