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JOURNAL OF HOBTICULTOBE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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correct name was Kil-hart, in allusion to his speed and strength 

 as a deerhound. The prince, returning home and seeing the 

 dog bloody and the child's cradle overturned, hastily plunged 

 his sword through the dog, suspecting him of destroying the 

 child, and then, too late, found the child asleep beneath the 

 bedclothes by the side of a dead wolf. The prince, tradition 

 further adds, founded an abbey at the place now known by the ' 

 greyhound's name, and the friary at Llanfaes, in gratitude for 

 his child's preservation, and, let us hope, to show his repent- | 

 ance for his hastiness. { 



Passing on we reached a semicircle of seats, from before i 

 which a flight of stone steps descend to the garden, a portion 

 of which is represented in the accompanying engraving from a 

 photograph taken by Mr. .T. W. Ambrose, Beaumaris. 



The view across this part of the garden extends over a foun- 

 tida beyond, to the main walk which seems to lead away to 

 the mountain scenery afar otT, and is very effective. The beds 

 are tastefully planted, and the growths here are as healthful 

 and luxuriant as elsewhere. The soil being a loam 5 feet deep 



resting on a rocky subsoil, added to the sheltered position, 

 sustains the good gardening. We need note but one or two 

 examples. The masses of Pampas Grass are grand, as may be 

 judged from the fact that one mass bore 150 spikes of flowers. 

 A Pinus macrocarpa close to them increased its height .5 feet 

 in two years. 



In passing away from this beautiful domain we halted to 

 look upon the view, as seen from the terrace in front of the 

 house. With the park and its scattered woodland for the 

 foreground, and the Menai Strait in the mid-distance, beyond 

 rise up the peaked chain of Carnarvonshire mountains, full 

 fifteen miles in a line of which are seen from the Great Orms 

 Head to Penrhyn Castle. At the feet of that range are visible 

 the fields and woods around, as well as the white walls of the 

 houses of Llandudno, Peumaenmawr, and Aber. 



Lastly, in close — too close — vicinity we must note the vinery 

 and greenhouses. The two vineries are each 50 feet in length, 

 14 feet in breadth, and 1.3 feet in height. The early vinery 

 contains Black Hamburgh, Muscat of Alexandria, Black Prince, 



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and Strawberry Vines ; the late vinery Black Hamburgh and 

 Black Alicante Vines. All of them were models of health and 

 vigour, though they are old, and their size may be appreciated 

 by the fact that on a Muscat of Alexandria there were seventy 

 bunches, averaging certainly 2,J lbs. each, and from which Vine 

 at thinning time two hundred bunches had been cut away. On 

 remarking the cleanUness of the Vine stems and branches, 

 Mr. Gough, the head gardener, said that it was owing to the 

 Gishnrst compound with which they were dressed ; but we 

 must add, the entirely healthy large leaves and abundant well- 

 coloured Orapes testified to good and well-attended culture. 



The greenhouse and plant-house are respectively <i9 feet and 

 .'1 feet long, which are certainly not half the amount of glazed 

 shelter that is nsnally allowed for the quantity of plants those 

 two stmctures have to provide, and we are puzzled in en- 

 deavouring to discern how ^^r. Gough obtains them. The 

 beds of about twenty acres of dressed ground at Baron Hill, 

 and thirty plants changed every second day for the drawing- 

 room and entrance hall, besides flowering plants for about 

 three-fonrths of an acre — all flower-beds — at Nant, have to 

 come from those two houses. 



New we ranst pass on for a full mile to Fryara, where is the 

 kitchen garden. It is about five acres in extent, snrronnded 



by a 10-feet wall, and subdivided by other similar walls. Tha 

 Peach wall, covered with glass, is 270 feet in length. The Cu- 

 cumber house, in which also are cultivated Melons, Dwarf 

 Kidney Beans, and Strawberries, is 12.S feet long, but divided 

 by a glazed partition. This length is required, because Sir 

 Richard Bulkeley wishes for a Cucumber to be on the table 

 every day — whether he gets it we did not inquire, but we saw 

 plants, all vigorous, in various stages of growth, as if there 

 was the effort made to gratify the requirement. 



Another glazed range, also 12H feet in length, is devoted to 

 the production of Potatoes, Asparagus, Tomatoes, and other 

 forced vegetables. 



The walls are well furnished with Pear, Plum, and Cherry 

 trees, and the crop upon them, perhaps, was just below an 

 average. The kitchen vegetables need no particular notice ; 

 but here, as in all other departments, we must express our 

 high estimate of the evidence cf Mr. Gough's skill, as we also 

 do of his intelligent courtesy to ourselves. Nant is the flower 

 garden of Baron HUI, but we must endeavour to do justice to 

 it separately. 



EvERGKEENS APPAiiENTLT Gnawed. — Like your correspondent 

 " H. B., Hawkhurst," I have been puzzled by what seemed to 



