MRS. BERKELEY, OF SPETCHLEY. 219) 
Cormorant Golden Plover 
Shag Lapwing 
Grey Goose Oyster-catcher 
Pink-footed Goose Common Sandpiper 
Sheld-Duck Redshank 
Pintail Greenshank 
Teal Curlew 
Wigeon Common Tern 
Pochard Little Tern 
Goldeneye Great Black-backed Gull 
Goosander Great Northern Diver 
MRS. BERKELEY, OF SPETCHLEY. 
>SSEX still possesses many distinguished scientists and 
much else of which she may be proud, but she has sadly 
fallen from her former high position of being one of the leading 
Counties for accomplished and learned gardeners and plant 
lovers, amateur as well as professional. So many of her gardens 
were famed far and near that to enumerate them would fill 
pages. 
In the present dearth we cannot afford to cede to Worcester- 
shire the whole credit to such a distinguished amateur gardener 
as was Mrs. Berkeley of Spetchley, but must accentuate the 
fact that half of her all too short life was spent at Warley where 
she learnt garden craft from her mother, Mrs. Willmott, who 
was herself skilful in the art and the third generation of enthusi- 
astic amateurs. 
Mrs. Willmott was one of the pioneers who broke away from 
the Mid-Victorian tradition of carpet bedding and ribbon borders 
and she sought to make her garden beautiful with the former 
denizens of English gardens. 
A. few of Evelyn’s plants still survived at Warley and they 
were carefully tended. Other old favourites were enthusias- 
tically collected from allover the country. They were not so easy 
to come by as they are now and had to be hunted out of old gar- 
dens such as Mrs. Willmott’s old home, Fitz-walters, where the 
gardens remained as they had been for generations. 
