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JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GAKDENEB. 



( Much 13, 188C 



no reason Tvh; seeds sboalil be catalogued as Ipom.-ea, Bellis, 

 Tagetes, Matkiola, &c., v,hen they ore well known as t'onvol- 

 vtJus, Daisy, Marigold, Stock, <tc. Cannot we have an Englieh 

 nomenclatore eetabliehed which shall be intelligible to all ? 

 -D. S. 



HUNTROYDE PARK. 



{Continued from page 478.) 

 For the last two months the weather has been very unfa- 

 vourable for the alterations which have been commenced, never- 

 theless, much has been done ; a great portion of the draining 

 has been completed, and a large belt of trees that constantly 

 enveloped the kitchen gardens, shutting out from these the 

 sun and air, has been grubbed up. Owing to these trees the 

 produce of the gardens Lad for many years past been of a very 

 inferior kind. The ground the trees occupied is now being 

 trenched and will be taken into the kitchen garden, the outer 

 walls of which will be removed on the south side to a distance 

 of 50 yards. Here a sunk fence has been commenced vohich 

 will extend about 600 feet along the south front of the kitchen 

 garden. A little below this there is a public footway which is 

 at times thronged with people, especially on Simdays ; and as 

 the family cannot at present enter the kitchen garden without 

 crossing this path, my object in making the sunk fence is to 

 hide the gardens as much as possible from public view. The 

 fence will be 6 feet deep, IG feet wide at top, and 10 feet wide 

 at bottom, and a walk ti feet wide will be made at the bottom 

 of the sunk fence. The soil excavated will be all thrown out 

 on the south side ; this will form a bank which will completely 

 block out the view from the public road. To increase the 

 height of the back of the bani all the lai'ge tree roots have 

 been dragged down and placed parallel with the sunk fence ; 

 they will also form a good drainage for the bank, which will be 

 made very ornamental on the south side, and as the road above 

 mentioned is one of the principal approaches to the Hall, my 

 intention is to plant an avenue of Cedrus deodara on each side 

 of it about the centre of the fence. A tunnel will also be made 

 by which access may be gained to the walk at the back of the 

 sunk fence. This tunnel will be about 50 yards long, and will 

 be commenced in the pleasure ground on the south side of the 

 carriage road, and by this means the family wUl be enabled to 

 pass from the pleasure grounds or the Hall without being over- 

 looked by the pubUc. 



In the pleasure grounds extensive alterations will be made. 

 These, however, will not be commenced for some httle time 

 yet, my object being to concentrate the most of my attention 

 on the kitchen and fruit gardens for the first year, so that they 

 may be progressing while my attention shall be engrossed with 

 the alterations in the pleasure grounds. 



I may here state, in order to more fully illustrate the ope- 

 rations now in progress, that the present flower garden, which 

 is at a considerable distance from the spot where the mouth of 

 the tunnel on the south side will be situated, is to be converted 

 into a pinetum. This wiU be divided into eight quarters by 

 eight 12-feet walks, all converging to a raised moimd in the 

 centre. Here eight magnificent perspective views wUl be ob- 

 tained by cutting through the wood in each dii-ection. I pro- 

 pose clearing a space of about 30 yards for each walk, levelling 

 the sides, and planting them with choice specimens of such 

 coniferous trees as will be likely to thrive in this cold, wet, and 

 smoky climate. Three of the walks will cross a trout stream 

 which can be made vei-y beautiful without much trouble. A 

 large reservoir will be made at some distance above this point, 

 and a series of cascades and waterfalls will be constructed 

 down the brook. These are intended to form an important 

 feature in the beauties of Hnntroyde after it has undergone 

 the various alterations in contemplation, and which are neces- 

 sary for giving prominency to its natural advantages. 



One of the three walks mentioned above as intended to cross 

 the brook in another direction, will bring us out exactly oppo- 

 site to the moutli of the tunnel. At the north end wUl be a 

 flight of steps leading from the walk at the bottom of the sunk 

 fence. Here a field about three acres in extent is being drained, 

 preparatory to its being converted into a fruit garden. Through 

 the centre of this field, in a straight line from the tunnel, will 

 be the principal approach to the kitchen garden. A main 

 walk about 15 feet wide will be made, and on each side of this 

 walk will be a grass plot 20 feet wide, in which will be cut out 

 beds for Eoses, bedding plants, fine-foliaged plants, &c. At 

 the back of these, on each side will be formed a bank about 

 5 feet high, and on the centre of the bank will be planted an 



evergreen hedge of some kind, probably Holly. Then there 

 will be a IS-foet slope on each side of the hedge. The slopes 

 towards the broad central walk will be for ribbon-borders. Here 

 1 intend to use five shades of colour, which will give 3 feet of 

 each shade. The number of plants required for these borders 

 wiU be about 30,000. 



Another walk, 10 feet wide, mnning parallel with the sank 

 fence from east to west, will intersect the walk leading from the 

 tunnel. This walk will be about 300 yards long, commencing 

 at the east end in what is now the old kitchen garden. On 

 the right hand is a range of good houses which have been used 

 for a variety of purposes, they are in good condition and only 

 want modernising. They are about 90 feet long. In one of 

 them I have a fine lot of Pines, and some excellent ]x>t Vines, 

 supplied by Mr. Meredith ; the other two contain a miscella- 

 neous collection of Pines, stove plants, &c. During the spring 

 these houses arc to be altered, and they will thenceforth be used 

 as vineries. 



At the end of this range, and parallel with the walk, a site is 

 set apart for a fine range of three-quarter span-roofed houses. 

 The range will be 104 feet long by 20 wide. This brings us across 

 the present kitchen garden, where we enter the field before 

 mentioned. In the front of these houses will be a sort of 

 terrace-wall, on which will be placed ornamental vases for 

 plants. On the opposite side of the walk, in front of the houses, 

 will be a border for mixed flowers, such as Hoses, Dahlias, 

 herbaceous plants, &c. 



After passing through the kitchen garden wo enter the field, 

 or what will be the fruit garden. Here the mixed border will 

 be continued on each side of the walk, after passing the houses, 

 tin we come to and pass across the main central walk. The 

 rest of the walk westward I purpose covering with wire trellises 

 in the form of an arch. This will be for training Apples, Pears, 

 &c., on, and at the end of this walk will be a summer-house. 

 The effect when looking from this point I think will be very 

 pleasing. At the back of the borders on each side will be 

 planted a row of fruit trees to be trained as pyramids. The 

 four quarters, divided by the walks above described, will be laid 

 out in beds of about 30 feet each. These wUl be thrown con- 

 siderably above tie general level of the ground. In the centre 

 of each bed will be planted a row of pyramidal-trained trees, 

 on each side of these a row of bush-trained trees, finishing off 

 the edges on each side with a row of cordon-trained trees. 

 The whole <of these raised fruit-tree borders will be made 

 parallel with the walks, and the sloping banks at the back of 

 the ribbon-borders will be planted with Strawberries, that 

 facing the east will be planted ^with the latest-fruiting kinds, 

 and that facing the west with the earliest, and the sloping 

 bank on the garden side of the sunk fence will be set apart for 

 Alpine Strawberries. 



I will now go back again to the kitchen gai-den for the pur- 

 pose of describing a range of forcing-houses built in a very 

 creditable and workmanlike manner by the Messrs. J. & L. 

 Eirtwhistle, of Padiham, near Burnley. Although the range 

 was only begun about the last week in November, we shall in 

 another fortnight have it completed, and the weather during 

 the greater portion of the time has been very unfavourable. 

 The range is a three-quarter span, 144 feet long and IG wide, 

 inside measure, and divided into five compartments. Two of 

 these will be devoted to the growth of Pines ; one to Cucum- 

 bers ; the fourth to Melons ; and the fifth will be used as a 

 propagating-house. In tliis house I have had constructed 

 what I shall c:Ul Wills's model propagating apparatus. Li\ing 

 near a manufacturing town where almost anything can ;be 

 formed out of iron, I have been able to surmount a ihfficulty 

 which has always tried me sorely. I may now^ truly say I Uve 

 in an iron age. Well, the difficulty I have hitherto had to 

 contend with has been how to construct a tank suitable for 

 propagating-purposes — I mean a lank that a hot-water pipe 

 shall pass through immersed in water. I have had several 

 constructed in this way ; they have been built on firm and 

 solid walls, the bricks laid in cement, the bottom and sides 

 covered with Portland cement and tUcs, and on these, again. 

 another coat of Portland cement with a proper quantity of 

 good sand in it ; yet after all had been finished, as soon as 

 the pipe that passes through the ends of the tank became 

 heated by the hot water circulating through it, it expanded, and 

 then the cement cracked, away went the water, and instead of a 

 nice moist heat I have been obUged to do with a dry heat, 

 which is not at all favourable for propagating-purposes. A tank 

 of this description I had built at Woodlands, near Stanmore, 

 some years ago, when I had a controversy with my old friend 



