The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . THE SATURDAY, JUNE ii, 1881. LAMORRAN. TO many readers of the Gardener^ Chroniclethe name of the Hon. and Rev. J. T,Boscawen is famihar as one fired with zealfor the advancement of gardening, an enthu-siastic kivcr of plants, which he knows well,a clever hybridist, and a man of great naltiraltaste cultivated by constant practice. Hisgarden at Lamorran, near Probus in Corn-wall, is so picturesque and so full of interestingplants, that a slight notice of it will be of interestto our readers, and will ap
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . THE SATURDAY, JUNE ii, 1881. LAMORRAN. TO many readers of the Gardener^ Chroniclethe name of the Hon. and Rev. J. T,Boscawen is famihar as one fired with zealfor the advancement of gardening, an enthu-siastic kivcr of plants, which he knows well,a clever hybridist, and a man of great naltiraltaste cultivated by constant practice. Hisgarden at Lamorran, near Probus in Corn-wall, is so picturesque and so full of interestingplants, that a slight notice of it will be of interestto our readers, and will appropriately accompanythe engraving we give of a view in the garden. The hill on which the house and groundsstand slopes to the south and south-west,looking down on a branch of the tidal river Fal,perpetual water being secured by means of adam across the narrow part of the valley form-ing a freshwater lake (well supplied with trout),with a pretty bend in it, and of about a quarterof a mile in length. The present shrubbery was, up till 1S50, abare field, subject to the usual courses of till
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