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THE GARDENERS* MAGAZINE. 
January 4, 1913. 
interesting phase of gardening, as the walls 
face either west, south, or north. Then, 
too, these terrace walls shelter large num¬ 
bers of beds and borders, and here again 
choice plants are to be found in abundance. 
The Terrace Gardens. 
The upper terrace is rough-flagged, and 
between the stones all sorts of tiny plants, 
notiibly saxifragas, thymes, and sedums 
find a home. Climbing plants twine round 
the oni a mental tops of the retaining walls, 
and roses abound on every hand. At the 
southern end of the terrace and in close 
proximity to the mansion is a series of ten 
large rose beds, each edged with Saxifraga 
positifolia, and surfaced with viola 
aggie Mott. Each bed is filled with one 
variety of rose, and the kinds planted are 
Hugh Dickson, Corallina, Kaiserin Augusta 
stant, LTdeale, Antoine Rivoire, and 
Caroline Testout roses, while each bed has 
a broad encircling band of Mrs. Sink ins 
pink that is attractive at all seasons of the 
year. Clematis Nellie Moser adorns the 
walls near at hand. 
Lower still, a very sheltered, walled-in 
garden has water lilies for its central fea¬ 
ture. This is the Nymphsea Terrace, and 
an illustration of it accompanies these 
notes. In the centre is a square pool of 
water, in which such nymplueas as Jas. Bry- 
don, gloriosa, and chromatella are quite at 
home. At either corner is a bed of mois¬ 
ture-loving shrubs, the principal occupants 
being Rhododendron praeoox, Andromeda 
floribunda, Kalmia latifolia, and Menziesia 
polifolia, with standards of the fine Hydran¬ 
gea paniculata grandiflora rising well above 
them. The inner margins of these beds 
barbara, from the Southern United States, 
and also known as Forsythia sCandens; Os- 
teomeles anthyllidifolia, from the Pacific 
Islands; the Papaw (Asimina triloba); and 
the beautiful yellow-flowered Jasminum 
primulinum, are a few other plants not 
commonly found in gardens, and more 
rarely seen out of doors. 
Around the Terraces. 
Although the walls of the house and the 
several terrace gardens contain so much of 
horticultural interest, it must not be ima¬ 
gined that all the good things are grouped 
here, and that the rest of the gardens and 
grounds possess few attractions. The lower 
terraces are of recent date, and have been 
built and planted during the last six years; 
they, in themselves are ample evidence of 
the keen interest Mr. Lewis Harcourt and 
VIEW ACROSS THE TERRACE ROSE GARDEN, NUNEHAM PARK. 
The Carfax Monument is seen in the distance to the right. The rose in the border on the left is Madame Abel Chatenay, and that 
in the first bed on the right is Souv. de Pi'esident Carnot. 
Victoria, Grand Due de Luxembourg, 
General Schablikine, Caroline Testout, 
Frau Karl Druschki, Mdme. Abel Chate¬ 
nay, Francois Dubreuil, and Countess of 
Gosford. The advantages of thorough soil 
preparation are very evident in these be<ls 
of roses, for the bushes grow and blosfiom 
with the utmost freedom. 
A “blue’^ border has been planted just 
outside this end of the terrace, and the 
chief occupants are anchusas, violas, lupins, 
asters, and anemones, with clematis on the 
walls. 
Descending, the west terrace garden is 
found to be largely devoted to roses, eight 
large beds being here grouped. Viola 
Maggie VIott is again pressed into service 
as a carpeting plant beneath the vigorous 
bushes of Killamey, Pres. Carnot, Hugh 
Dickson, Francois Dubreuil, Beaute Incon- 
are planted with various irises, but princi¬ 
pally the variety Victorine. Boxes of sal¬ 
via Glory of Zurich adorn the steps of this 
terrace throughout the summer. 
If the summary of the climbing plants 
on the mansion creates some surprise, then 
the list of plants growing against the walls 
and in the sheltered borders of the Nym- 
phsea Garden, will prove still more surpris¬ 
ing. Cestrum Newelli, a popular green¬ 
house climber, and Leonotus Ijconurus, an 
orange-spiked warm bouse flowering plant, 
are here, though the latter has, so far, 
only stood out one winter. Plagianthus 
Lyalli d<^ well against the wall, and so 
do Abutilon vitifolium and Medicago ar- 
borea, and the prett y Helichysum ros- 
marinifolium—the “Snow in Summer’’ of 
Tasmania. Hoheria populnea, Fabiana im- 
bricata, Sophora tetraptera, Decumaria 
his family take in their gardens, but there 
is plenty of further evidence elsewhere. 
A wide semi-circular slope below the 
lowest terrace has been made beautiful 
planting it thickly with Rosa Wichuraian»j 
the true species ; this rose is especially suit¬ 
able for clothing slopes and banks, and 
here it is seen at its best. Just outside the 
Nymphaea Garden a long border is largel.^ 
filled with the pretty Leptospermum sco- 
parium, an Antipodean Myrtaceous shrub 
which flourishes here so well that self"suw^ 
seedlings are quite numerous. Near by ^ 
splendid specimen of the lovely Rosa sinica 
Anemone clothes the wall, and farther 
round groups of Soleil d'Or and Cap¬ 
tain Hayward roses adorn the borders. 
Continuing northwards the use of rosemai^^ 
kept closely trimmed, and trained to th^ 
pillars and buttresses of the lower wall, 
