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THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
:i: AN OLD-ESTABLISHED SUFFOLK % 
t NURSERY. I 
In more than one respect Mr. R. C. 
Notcutt's nursery at Woodbridge has an in¬ 
dividuality quite uncommon among the 
nurseries of Britain. It has Been in exist¬ 
ence Well over 150 years, and the records of 
the early days reveal the fact that business 
was done with county families whose descend¬ 
ants are still numbered among the firm’s 
regular clients. Until less than twenty years 
ago the name of the owner of this old-estab¬ 
lished nursery was John Woods, but in the 
of tall Scots pines, and in a sheltered hollow 
in this plantation one finds a splendid colony 
of bamboos growing with a luxuriance that 
bespeaks entire satisfaction with their en¬ 
vironment. Not many nurseries have a col¬ 
lection of bamboos to equal that at Wood- 
bridge, for, in addition to towering masses 
of Phyllostachys, Bambusa metake, and 
Arundinaria anceps, there are fine clumps of 
the handsome foliaged Arundinaria nitida, 
the neat little B. nana, the graceful Phyllo- 
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d^s wonderfully well here,there heir g 
of bushes 5ft. or 6ft. high, and 
much through. Eremuri were pr.T^c, 
past at the time of my visit but the 'v 
spikes carrying innumerable ^ pod. w 
witness to the glory that had beeVthf n 
Some beds of the newer varieties of Ht 
sanguinea were aglow with crim^.u 
coral-red. The Shirley varietv of H. ut 
guinea grandiflora was exoeptionallv* 
and it is open to question whether anV 
dazzling but delightfully elegant plant 
a circular bed, or for a group in tin- 
ceous border is available. Curioiu, ►.j. 
quaintly beautiful, was Salvia turkeV»„-T 
hybrida, with large cordate, somewhat boarr 
foliage, and dense spikes of almost 
flowers, arranged in tiers surrounded Vt 
mauve-coloured leafy bract.s. A coI^-ht V 
this plant grows on‘the rising margin/, f» 
newly-formed water garden wherein 
plants have already established tbrns^h,-, 
Diamond Jubilee year, after the death of the 
last male representative of this highly- 
respected family, the business passed into 
Mr. Notcutt’s hands; who had already estab¬ 
lished a reputation as a chrysanthemum spe¬ 
cialist with a nursery in Ipswich, which, by 
the way, is still retained, it being here that 
a varied collection of stove and greenhouse 
plants is grown. 
One scarcely has passed through the en¬ 
trance gates to the Woodbridge Nursery ere 
he is confronted with unmistakable evidence 
of the great age of the garden. For it is 
more in the nature of a garden than an or¬ 
dinary nursery—afforded by the remarkably 
fine magnolias that completely cover the 
front of the house. There are also in the 
nursery noble trees of Cedrus Deodora, and a 
magnificent fern-leaved beech and the 
maidenhair tree that must have waved their 
spreading branches in the breeze for many a 
long year. 
At one end of the nursery is a plantation 
A BEAUTIFUL WATER GARDEN 
In the Wcodbridge Nursery. 
stachys anrea, and P. quadrangularis, with 
curious four-cornered canes. As a matter of 
fact, almost all species of bamboos found in 
this country are seen growing in the Wood- 
bridge Nursery, and Mr. Notcutt is justly 
proud of his extensive and valuable collec¬ 
tion. 
That the nursery is more like a garden 
than an ordinary trade establishment is 
largely due to the fact that great care is 
exercised in order that even the stock beds 
of flowering plants are so arranged that in 
height, colour, and season of flowering each 
may contribute its proper share to the har¬ 
monious effect of the whole display. The 
ground rises from the roadside in a gentle 
slope, so that one obtains a fine view from 
the offices, and at all periods from spring to 
autumn a pleasing picture is presented. 
Hardy perennials are extensively grown, and 
the collection includes a large number of 
the best subjects for the border, the rock 
garden, aad for bedding. Romneya Coulteri 
the water has been "5^" L, , 
aeas funkias, irise.s, and . 
iig plants. Astilbe Cere.-. • . 
incre^itoingly ’ 
owing up a tt- '■ 
noble leaves of '* 
nes of Arundo - • 
enteum produced an 
iirianee. ,^irprv in " 
ding yellow flov^ers aphon?-/ 
med^ admiration and - 
b the flowering stage, ta¬ 
ction of saxifrages, ^. 
,ted and /^^ftention ' 
ms receive the the , 
uty deserves and 
;s varieties ‘ jt 
ticularly pleased me. 
