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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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n extension of planculture and the improvement of the fruit crops undeiglass. The garden is under the superintendence 0Mr. Payne, whose heart is evidently in his work, ancwhose capabilities are well exemplified in the excellent condition of everything under his charge. VV. B SEfTEMBER 3, iSSl.j THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 301 OCKENDEN, The Sussex seat of T. \V. Boord, Esq., M.P., isjasily readied by the London, Brighton, and SouthCoast railway, and is situated in a district of unsur-passed beauty, about 12 miles from Brighton, 38 milesfrom London, and but a short distance from thellaywards Heath Station. The landscape of the which place the drive to Ockenden is but a shortdistance. At the entrance to the house the visitor will findthe walls draped with lovely climbers, both evergreenand deciduous, and some grand old Fig trees in fullbeauty of foliage ; a very good way of combining theuseful with the ornamenlal, as the trees are bearingnice crops of fruit. The house is said to be over 700
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-!;vi\se-2--- - Fig. 56,—SENECIO STENOCElntALA, VAR. & COMOSA : MUCH REDUCED, FLOWERS YELLOW. (SEE P. 30O.) district is very beautiful, and in bright weather thedrive from Hay wards Heath to Ockenden is renderedinteresting by the vast tract of country which the eyetraverses, including the Sussex Downs, presentinga variety of landscape scenery which at once rivetsthe attention of even the most casual observer. Thedistrict, too, is dotted with quaint old villages, builtpartly of wood and partly of bricks, many of whichare said to date back some centuries. A short drive of less than 3 miles brings you to thevillage of Cuckfield, a model English village, from years old, its Ivy-clad walls and curious architecturalfeatures bearing marks of great antiquity. One wingof the building appears to have been an abbey at onetime, and is not the least interesting portion to lookupon. The principal part of the building, however,appears to have been built in the Early English styleof architectur

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