THE GARDENS OF WARLEY PLACE.
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sambucina, O. morio, and the "Bee," the "Spider," the "Fly,"
the "Lizard," and the "Hanging-Man" Orchises.
A grotto to the south is devoted to "Filmy-ferns," and in
passing from the open into the cool diffused light the contrast
is delightful. In this grotto one finds Trichomanes cruentium and
T. reniforme from New Zealand, T. radicalis from Killarney,
Hymenophyllum tunbridgense from Westmoreland, and H.
demissum from New Zealand.
The gorge ends at the old Watergate-pond, from which in
old times the villagers of Great Warley drew their water. It
stretches southwards, and is fed by a little stream of pure
water. No longer serving its former utilitarian purposes, it
is now devoted to the welfare of aquatic and moisture loving
plants. The pink Nymphaea sphaerocarpa from Sweden, men-
tioned and figured in the Flora Danica, is grown here, and also
many of the hybrids raised by Latour Marliac and Lagrange
from the plant. Here, in the shade of some White Poplars,
grow fine clumps of Cypripedium. C. spectabile sends up its fine
pink slipper-like flowers, 18 inches high, showing that they are
as thoroughly content with their present conditions in the old
world as they were in their North American home. Here also
Cypripedium calceolus from Savoy, and its variety from Pralognon,
C. macranthum, C. fasciculatum and C. punctatum are thoroughly
well established, and show increase from year to year.
Between the Bowling-green and the Alpine-garden is one of
the finest bushes of red Venus Sumach in the country; Erica
mediterranea and E. multiflora grow some six feet high. Indigo-
phora gerardana and large bushes of Fuchsia globosa, which
have not been cut down by any winter for the last eighteen
years, Desfontainia spinosa, five feet high, flourishing in an
exposed position, bears myriads of little red and yellow flowers
every summer.
Plants which always attract much attention are a fine bush
of Juniperus sabina var. tripartita, spreading twelve feet in
diameter from a central stem, and a very beautiful and unique
Ceanothus.
Alpine Rhododendrons and Daphnes, and many varieties of
Asters grow naturally on the water-fringes of the Alpine-garden,
and in spring rare flowering bulbous plants from many distant
regions give a charm to the whole which would be difficult to