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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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d Porlock arthe Osmunda, Lastrea recurva or fcenisecii, anAsplenum viride and septentrionale. Hymencphyllum would probably be found, too, by the patiersearcher. All the villages in North Somerset ha^allotment gardens. Round Hawkcombe especialljunder the fostering care of Sir Thomas Dyke Aclanca model landlord, there is abundant evidence of thsuccess of a system which adds materially to thcomfort and prosperity of the labourers on his largestates. But for cleanliness and good cultivation tlallotments at Minehead are still better, and the charg November 5, iSSi.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 601 is only 31;. a yard, an area equal to a pole or perch. clean street and handsome old church ; we notice here, tortunate Minehead workmen, with such a soil and too, that there is scarcely a house in the village with- climate, and such an opportunity of making substan- out its healthy group of window plants. Before us tial additions to the daily meal! on the steep wooded hill stands the famous Dunster
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Fig. 116.—helianthus decapetalus. (see p. 600.; to be allowed to look round. There is so much tosee, however, in the short time at our disposal that Ican make only a few hurried notes on the more inter-esting features of the place. Flower gardening is notextensively done at Dunster Castle, but what there isis in excellent taste. The nature of the ground, asteep incline on all sides, does not allow of extensiveparterres. The largest area of lawn is on the site ofthe ancient keep, and is now used as a bowling green.It is margined, however, with choice shrubs and ever-greens and bedding plants. The view from thebowling green which overlooks the Castle is mag-nificent, richly wooded deer parks backed by therolling masses of Exmoor, and northward the cloud-chequered waters of the Channel. On a south wallI noticed a fine old Lemon tree loaded with fruit,Magnolia, Gloire de Dijon, and Ampelopsis Veitchii,the latter forming an elegant tracery to the stonemullioned windows. Bright and concen

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