. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . e side being clothed to their summitswith many beautiful trees, gro>,Tiug out, it would Beeci, ofnothing but thesolid rook. , the routewere many singlespecimens, lines,and clumps of thechoicest Conifeiie,which seem tohave been plantedwith the greatestprofusion every-where about theplace during thelast few years, andnearly all seem tobe thriving beautiful isthe appearance ofPinns iosignis inits bright livelypea green colourin contrast withthe darker shades!In a very fewyears, if taken careof, the
. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . e side being clothed to their summitswith many beautiful trees, gro>,Tiug out, it would Beeci, ofnothing but thesolid rook. , the routewere many singlespecimens, lines,and clumps of thechoicest Conifeiie,which seem tohave been plantedwith the greatestprofusion every-where about theplace during thelast few years, andnearly all seem tobe thriving beautiful isthe appearance ofPinns iosignis inits bright livelypea green colourin contrast withthe darker shades!In a very fewyears, if taken careof, the trees willform a sight ofthemselves worthgoing all the wayto Ireland to see. Essaying now toepeak of the gar-dens proper, wherethe high culturalability of is so welldisplayed, I willtake a hurried ranthrough the vari-ous ranges of glasshouses, which arerather extensive,and present manyspecial features of attraction. The collection of stove plants, &e., is altogether , ,splendid, winning as they do for Mr. Dann many prizes at the i exceedingly pretty,. The PowerEcourt Waicrfi! hot-water pipes. Along the front shelves were fine lots ofplants for winter decoration, such as Poinsettifts, Euphorbiajacquiniseflora, Dracffinas, Crotons, &c. The third division is aplant stove, in which I noticed many fine specimens of finc-foliaged plants. Ferns, and Orchids. Amongst the formerAuthurium cordifolium stood out well, having leaves 34 inchesby 2G inches ; Cyanophyllnm maj-nificum, grown as it oughtto be from enttinns annually, wo>j very lino, upwards of 7 (eetin height, and clothed with splendid leaves, 39 inches by 25, tothe very surface of the pot; Sphrerogyne ciDnomcmea, over5 feet high, equally perfect end beautiful; Sphserogyne lati-folia ; a huge plant of Dieffenbachia picta, 8 feet in htii^ht and9 feet in breadth ; Alocasia macrorhiza variegata, A. Veitchii,Pandanus Veitchii, Pandanus javanicus, nine or ten those now popular plants, Marantas, amongst which V
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