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JOUKNAL OF HORTICULTUKE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



[ June 11, 1874. 



another flower garden, called the Lower Terrace Garden. This 

 is seen from the grass on the terrace, but hardly noticed from 

 (he house. In this garden there are some nice ftandard Eose 

 trees, and the walls are well covered with Peaches and Figs. 

 There is an old vinery in this garden placed sgairst the 

 terrace wall. The Vines in this house are supposed to have 

 Veen planted over one hundred years. They are mostly Black 

 Hamburgh, and bear well every year ; the bunches are small, 

 but they colour remarkably well, and are of good quality. I 

 question very much if they are not of superior quality to 

 Grapes from younger Vines. 



Eelow this terrace garden is a fruit garden of about one 

 acre well filled with trees of Plums, Gooseberries, and Easp- 

 berries ; and on the walls are Pears and Plums trained fan- 



shape. Against the south wall of this garden is placed a range 

 of hothouses, about ISO feet long, consisting of an early Peach 

 house, 50 feet long, with trees trained on the back wall, and 

 young flat-trained Peach trees in front bearing excellent crops. 

 On the shelves were a number of Strawberry pots of President, 

 which setms to be an excellent variety for fruiting in March 

 and April. In the middle is a greenhouse with a number of 

 very useful plants for cutting and drawing-room decoration, 

 such as Primulas, Cinerarias, Heaths, Epacrises, Azaleas, and 

 many others, all in good health. At the west end is a vinery 

 30 feet long, which has been planted about twelve months 

 with Muscat of Alexandria. The old Vines are left growing so 

 as to produce a few bunches till the young Vines come into 

 bearing. In this house, and also in a range of cold frames in 



MES. FINCH S FLOWER OAKDEN. 



ihis garden, there are great numbers of bedding-out plants. 

 Bedding-out is carried on rather excessively, there being three 

 flower gardens to fill besides a great many borders. In all 

 from thirty-five to forty thousand plants are used in these 

 gardens every year. Much credit is due to Mr. Temple, the 

 gardener, for the manner in which he supplies such largo num- 

 bers of bedding plants, which were all in excellent condition. 



Leaving the fruit gardens, we pass through some pleasure 

 grounds till we reach the kitchen gardens, which are rather 

 hadly situated, being, to my mind, too much confined by 

 large trees. Within the walls there are about three acres, and 

 one outside. The old Apple and Pear trees are being removed 

 gradually, and young Apjjles and Pears are being planted as 

 pyramids to replace them. Young Plum trees are also being 

 planted as standards. On the south wall young Peach and 

 Nectarine trees have recently been planted, and they are 

 making nice young healthy wood. In this garden there are 

 three houses ; one a vinery 45 feet long by 12 wide. In this 

 house the Vines have been planted about three years by Mr. 

 Temple. The Vines have made excellent wood, and are show- 

 ing well for fruit. The sorts are Black Hamburgh, Muscat 

 Hamburgh, Trebbiano, Trentham Black, and Eoyal Musca- 

 dine. On the latter variety I counted from sixty to seventy 

 bunches, but these have been reduced to six or seven on each 

 Vine. The border in this house is composed of good turfy 

 loam and brick rubbish, and nothing could be more satis- 

 factory than the state of the young Vines. There is a stove 



recently built with a north aspect, and which, I believe, was 

 erected according to Mr. Temple's instructions. The inmates 

 do him credit, for they were in good condition. There are 

 some nice young plants of Begonias, Allamandas, Sanchezia, 

 Gardenias, and Ferns, and at one end a few good Orchids, 

 Caladiums, and Gloxinias. The Cucumber house adjoins the 

 stove on the south side ; it is 45 feet long, the same length as 

 the stove. Telegraph is the variety mostly grown here, and 

 when true few are better for either winter or summer supply. 

 There are about fifty lights of frames for growing Melons, early 

 vegetables, salads, &c. 



Altogether the general keeping of the gardens and grounds 

 shows that Mr. Temple is master of his profession. — James 

 Sjiith, Exton Park. 



NOVELTIES IN THE EOTAL GAEDENS, KEW. 

 Feemontia califoknica is in bloom on the wall of the her- 

 baceous ground. It appears to have a profusely-flowering 

 habit. On the spurs of one branch there are ten flowers in the 

 space of a foot, seven of which are open ; they are bright 

 yellow, about 2 inches in diameter, and similar in form to a 

 single Eose, but of greater substance. It branches with great 

 regularity, and has neat fohage evenly produced over the 

 entire tree. To do well it should be planted against a wall, 

 and be protected during very severe weather ; in that position 

 it is very handsome. It is the only representative of the order 



