The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . the west beingchiefly planted wi(h the lilack Hamburgh central division contains the Muscat of Alexan-dria only, and the remaining division contains LadyDownes, Alicante, and other late sorts. All theVines are healthy and clean, and carrying heavycrops. They are all heated by common fire-flues, andMr. Squibbs does not find overhead syringing neces-sary. In another vinery, heated by hot water, the In a small lean-lo plant stove Roses and otherplants are successfully forced, and for this pur
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . the west beingchiefly planted wi(h the lilack Hamburgh central division contains the Muscat of Alexan-dria only, and the remaining division contains LadyDownes, Alicante, and other late sorts. All theVines are healthy and clean, and carrying heavycrops. They are all heated by common fire-flues, andMr. Squibbs does not find overhead syringing neces-sary. In another vinery, heated by hot water, the In a small lean-lo plant stove Roses and otherplants are successfully forced, and for this purposeMr. Squibbs prefers dwarf standards worked upon theDog Rose. There arc .also three small span-roofedplant-houses glazed on Beards principle and healedwilh hot water, where various kinds of stove andgreenhouse plants are successfully grown. On theroof of one of them we observed a fine example ofthe Marechal Niel Rose ; on another Allamandagrandiflora, and Bougainvillea glabra, Stephan-otis floribunda, &c. We noticed also a fine plantof the old lasminum .Sambac, useful for cutting,. Fig. 24.—coronilla emerus : hardv shrub ; i-lowers yellow and red. (see r. 104.) Oaks, one of which, with a peculiarly twisted stem,we jjarticularly admired, and all of them appeared tohave been at some lime pollarded. There are alsomany fine examples of more modern introductions,such as a fine Iicea cephalonica, Picea magnifica,elegant Cedars of Lebanon, and gigantic Yew trees,&c. The park corresponds with the mansion, andis of great extent, containing close upon 2000 acres ofexcellent land, a portion ot it being well stocked wilhdeer. It is said to be something like twelve miles incircumstance, and has at least ten entrance galeswith lodges, or gate-houses, attached to the principal entrance, or, at least, thatnearest to the town of Pury St. Edmunds, is near tothe church in the very pretty village of iron entrance gates here are exceedingly massive,and of a unique pa
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