November 11, 1876. J 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 



425 



some Horse Chestnnta grown naturally — that is, with their 

 lower branches tonohing and lying on the grass. Those who 

 only see these trees as usually grown can have uo idea of the 

 added beauty when the lowest boughs are as these are. 



Besides the trees and shrubs on this extensive top lawn 

 there is one object of particular interest, a copy of the famous 

 Warwick vase out in one solid piece of Bos stone, which when 

 hewn was over 10 tons in weight. This is unfortunately placed 

 too much on one side; whereas, did it stand just in the middle 

 where is now an old Ash it would overlook the two lower gar- 

 dens, and would form a fine object to look up to, and serve as 

 a connecting link to the eye with the house. 



Passing, or rather strolling, along this lino lawn I come to 

 the Beech walk, a very dangerous place indeed for young 

 people to enter, being highly suggestive of engaged liogs. Not 

 far o£f is one of several summer houses, but this one I notice 

 is on an artificial mound, placed there for the view. Where 



stands the mound was a pit, which the late Mr. Poynder had 

 filled up and the fummer house put on its apex. I thought 

 what a good thing such alterations are for the poor, as bring- 

 ing to them many days of labour and labour's recompense — 

 wages. How much good people of fortune often do by alter- 

 ations, which give employment ! how much more good is done 

 in this way to the poor than by almsgiving ! I now take my 

 leave of the pleasure grounds, just observing in passing that 

 as the finely-undulating and beautifully-wooded park is only 

 separated from these by an iron paling, the idea of space is 

 given, and all cramping quite avoided. 



Next comes the kitchen garden, in which, in itself, is nothing 

 remarkable, but in it stands the conservatory, which with the 

 fernery is 70 feet long and 23 feet wide, and the height of the 

 lantern 24 feet. The stove, conservatory, and fernery (one 

 building) is in three compartments. This structure is very 

 elegant. Up its slender pillars run various bright- coloured 



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Fig. 94.- 



Blue Lobelia, edceJ witb Sirs. Polloc!:. 

 PelargDuium Stella, ed^'ed with Qolileu Chain. 

 Pelargonium Tom Thumb, edgeJ with Silvti- Chain. 

 Pelargonium Chiistiae, edged with Silver Chain. 

 Altemanthera, edged with Golden Pjrethrum. 



-Flower garden at hahtham park. 



creepers, and crossing high np from pillar to pillar they hang 

 in festoons. Taesonia Van-Volxemi was there in its beauty, 

 and the Lapageria rosea with its gorgeous bells. There, too, 

 were Bignonias and the AUamanda cathartica with its striking 

 yellow flowers. The centre compartment is the conservatory, 

 the other compartment the fernery. There was the Thun- 

 bergia Harrisii; the Golden Fern in its gorgeousness, with 

 Adiantum Farleyense, and many others of magnificent growth. 

 In this stove conservatory and fernery what particularly struck 

 me was the heilthinesa of every plant and the admirable way 

 in which all were kept. lu the stove division I noticed a fine 

 plant of Hibiscus splendens with its intense carmine-scarlet 

 centre. 



Next in order come the vineries. The length of the large 

 vinery is 80 feet, its width 21 feet. The height of the back 

 wall is 23 feet, with a half-lantern top. This is a grand 

 vinery, and it was a pleasing thought to know that not only 

 on its hospitable owner's table its beautiful Grapes appeared, 

 but they reached many a poor invalid's lips, and their grateful 

 moisture comforted those almost past earthly comfort. The 

 vinery is in four compartments. The first contains Pope's 

 Hamburgh, Lady Downe's Seedling, and that troublesome 

 Grape to grow in many soils, Mrs. Pince. In the second com- 

 partment I found Muscats of Alexandria with splendid berries. 

 This house is heated by six rows of ■i-inoh pipes. la the 



6., Centre Iresine, with white and pntple Verbena, edged with Mesem- 

 bryanthemum. 



7. Pelargonium Roltieson's Unique, edged with Golden Pyrethrum. 



8. Grass. Centre Tase. 



I third division again Muscat of Alexandria, in the fourth the 

 Muscat Hamburgh and Black Hamburgh. Besides this large 

 vinery is a small one H7 feet long, half-span roof, with eight 

 rows of pipes. I saw, too, another kitchen garden chiefly 

 devoted to fruit of about an acre in extent, with its Pear crop 

 a sight to see. 



I I next come to a very noteworthy part of Hartham Park gar- 

 dens — viz., the frameyard, with offices and sheds around it. I 

 remember looking once through the house of a gentleman 

 famous for giving good dinners, and being struck with the ex- 

 ceeding smallness and inconvenience of the kitchen and ad- 

 joining offices. I remarked upon this, and pitied the cook. 

 So also in visiting some extensive and well-kept gardens I have 

 often noticed that the offices for the gardener's use — tool 

 houses, potting sheds, &c. — were like the small kitchen for the 

 cook, and I pity the gardener. This, however, is not the case 

 at Hartham Park, but quite the contrary. The gardeners' 

 kitchens, so to speak, are on a gr.ind sxiale. Imagine half an 

 acre and uiore of an oblong form, with the centre made into 

 a cold-frame yard, with offices, sheds, A-i;., on one side and end, 

 the other side and end devoted to wall fruit and houses. Here 

 I found half-span houses over 100 feet in length, divided into 

 four compartments. First is the winter forcing house, second 

 is devoted to Pines and Cucumbers, third to Cucumbers, fourth 



, to greenhouse plants. Next is a Peach house 37 feet long, half- 



