JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER .  215 
Supplement  to 
March  14,  1901. 
employed  between  the  chinks  of  a  steep,  southward  sloping  brick  wall. 
This  phase  of  gardening  is  no  more  overlooked  than  any  other  section 
of  outdoor  embellishment  at  Holland  House.  Earl  Ilchester  is  an 
enthusiast  among  plants,  and  his  wishes  are  ably  executed  by  his  head 
gardener,  Mr.  Charles  Dixon,  who  has  superintended  the  gardens  here 
for  thirty-seven  years. 
The  Dutch  Garden. 
Having  made  the  circuit  of  the  north  side  a  gateway  leads  the 
visitor  through  to  the  west  front  and  the  Dutch  garden,  whioh  is 
(Physianthus)  albeus,  so  called  because  bees  and  butterflies  are  trapped 
by  the  flowers.  From  a  flat -roofed  tower  situated  to  the  left  of  the 
Dutch  garden  a  splendid  view  of  a  largo  portion  of’the  grounds  can 
be  obtained.  All  our  illustrations  of  the  gardens  are  from  photographs 
taken  by  Mr.  Dixon.  At  present  the  head  gardener  is  busily  engaged 
in  preparing  a  catalogue  of  the  plant  species  cultivated  here,  a  work 
that  has  been  undertaken  at  Lady  Holland’s  desire.  The  trees,  shrubs, 
and  plants  of  the  Abbotsbury  collection,  in  Dorsetshire,  have  been 
catalogued  and  issued  in  the  form  of  a  handsome  little  book.  Abbots¬ 
bury  and  Melbury  are  country  estates  of  Earl  and  Lady  Ilchester. 
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depicted  on  the  page  opposite.  Here  and  there  along  the  right  hand 
wall  statuary  is  placed.  The  beds  are  edged  with  tall  Boxwood,  and 
during  summer  they  are  filled  with  tuberous  Begonias,  bedding 
Pelargoniums,  and  such  like.  It  was  here  in  this  garden  that  the 
earliest  Dahlia  first  blossomed,  which  fact  was  commemorated  by  the 
third  Lord  Holland  in  a  verse  dedicated  to  his  lady. 
The  Dahlia  you  brought  to  our  isle 
Your  praises  for  ever  shall  speak  ; 
’Mid  gardens  as  sweet  as  your  smile. 
And  in  colours  as  bright  as  your  cheek. 
On  the  south  wall  to  the  right  the  Pomegranate  flourishes,  together 
with  Vitis  rubrum,  Wistarias,  Magnolias,  Clematis,  particularly  the 
Traveller’s  Joy,  and  the  Bladder  Flower  or  Cruel  Plant,  Araujia 
The  Rock  Garden. 
In  the  rockery  (including  an  effective  “dripping  brook,”  which  runs 
off  among  the  artificial  boulders,  and  in  its  lower  courses  feeds  a 
number  of  pools  in  the  Japanese  garden)  we  find  fragrant  beds  of  the 
purple- flowered  Thymus  serpyllum,  the  liitle  yellow  Hippocrepis  oomosa, 
the  blue  Lithoepermum  prostratum,  the  scarlet  or  orange  red  Delphinium 
nudicaule,  and  the  sky  blue  D.  Belladonna.  Ramondia  pyrenaica  and 
its  white  variety  are  well  established  on  perpendicular  slopes,  the  tender 
Linum  arboreum,  the  spreading  Veronica  prostrata,  the  useful  Sedum 
acre,  Dianthus  Napoleon  III.,  Brodiaoa  coccinea,  and  a  host  of  other 
plants,  such  as  Aubrietias,  Saxifragas,  Geums,  Campanulas,  Platycodon 
grandiflorum,  Dicentra  eximia,  Globe-flowers,  and  Veronicas  are  also 
established.  Around  the  waterpools  one  finds  the  beautiful  Ranunculus 
