Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . et Geraniums, Calceolarias,Verbenas, &o. Trained against the house, as seen in theengraving, are large specimens of the White Banksian Rose,Magnolias, and Glycine sinensis. In front of the lawn isthe lake, and by a tasteful treatment of its boundaries con-siderable indefiniteness is obtained. At the head of thelake is a natural rockery, secluded, and approached fromthe pleasure-ground walk; it is composed of arches mantledwith climbers, and narrow winding passages, steep andabrupt, canopied and darkened with evergreens. The crev
Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . et Geraniums, Calceolarias,Verbenas, &o. Trained against the house, as seen in theengraving, are large specimens of the White Banksian Rose,Magnolias, and Glycine sinensis. In front of the lawn isthe lake, and by a tasteful treatment of its boundaries con-siderable indefiniteness is obtained. At the head of thelake is a natural rockery, secluded, and approached fromthe pleasure-ground walk; it is composed of arches mantledwith climbers, and narrow winding passages, steep andabrupt, canopied and darkened with evergreens. The crevicesare filled with Ferns, seedling Azaleas and Rhododendrons,Orchis, Primroses, Foxgloves, and other and more rare sortsof British plants. The masses of Rhododendrons and hardyAzaleas with other shrubs of trailing habit on the rockymargin of the lake, which is vaiied by indentations andfirojections, must appear gorgeous in spring when coveredwith bloom and reflected in the water. The quiet characterof the lake, its caverns, and its rockery, combine to make. WHTTLEY ABBEY. this place a scene of picturesque and artistic beauty. It istruly delightful to saunter through these lovely scenes witha mind capable of feeling the beauties and the glories of thecreation, displayed in the insects climbing up the spirygrass or disporting on the fragrant flowers; in the scatteredfish, of various colours, poised on tennuous fins; in thefeathered inhabitants of the grove that make the welkinring with theu- sweet music, and in the contrasted wondersof vegetable life, from the Cedar that gioweth in Lebanonto the Hyssop that springeth out of the wall. In the pleasure grounds are fine specimens of EvergreenOaks, Pinus exoelsa. Deodar Cedars, and other Coniferse,planted by Colonel Hood, who was killed in the Crimeanwar, and on that account they give a hallowed and melan-choly charm to the place. The kitchen garden of three acres is some distance fromthe Abbey. It contains three vineries and a Peach
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