GST Descriptio?i qf Harewood House and Grounds. 



splendens, very tall and graceful plants, with amazing clusters 

 of flowers. The "new stove" is 100 ft. long, 30 ft. broad, and 

 1 5 ft. high. It is used principally as a pine-house, but has, more- 

 over, abundance of grapes. There are in it two very fine plants 

 of the granadilla ( Passiflora quadrangularis), which for a long 

 period have annually ripened in the greatest perfection plenty 

 of well grown fruit. * In this house I observed a number of 

 pots of theTrevirana coccinea, of very fine growth, and covered 

 with the greatest profusion of flowers. There is only one 

 plant in a pot, by which mode of culture they are grown more 

 strong and bushy than when several stems are suffered to rise ; 

 they seem to have much heat given them, being placed near 

 the back flue. The " Calcutta house," built purposely for 

 pines, is 80 ft. long, the back wall little more than 8 ft. high, 

 the lights at a very small horizontal angle, and nothing trained 

 within the sashes ; so that the summer's sun has greater effect 

 on the temperature of the house than where the inclination of 

 the glass is greater, and the light and heat of its rays obstructed 

 by the foliage of vines. The pines in this house are of the 

 finest growth and beauty. The conservatory is but small ; it 

 contains a very fine and wide-spreading heliotrope ( JWeliotro- 

 pium peruvianum) trained to a trellis, choice varieties of 

 Ipomce v a, JPxia, and other herbaceous plants. The green-house 

 is a very light, airy, and handsome structure, upwards of 70 ft. 

 long, well stocked with the best pelargoniums, orange and 

 lemon trees, Australian and Cape plants; several fine varieties of 

 Alstrcemerzar, capitally grown, larger and more luxuriant than 

 any 1 have seen ; a fine collection of cockscombs of the greatest 



* In the Hart. Trans, may be found a paper on the cultivation of this fruit, 

 which was written by Mr. Robert Chapman, who was then the able and in- 

 telligent gardener at Harewood. Mr. Chapman is a native of Scotland, 

 and, I believe, in early life worked under Aiton ; he was upwards of forty 

 years in the only situation as head-gardener which he ever held: a more 

 upright and industrious man never entered His Lordship's service. In the 

 rigours of winter, the heats of summer, early or late, call when you might 

 at the gardens, there was this sedulous man to be found, always at some- 

 employment : neat, clean, and respectable in his person and dress ; affable 

 and cheerful in his demeanour. He retired from Lord Harewood' s service 

 about three years ago, and now lives, as he ought, in comfortable retire- 

 ment, free from all fears of the " res angusta cfojHi" [poverty], having re- 

 ceived from the hands of his noble master a handsome piece of plate, of 

 the value of 50/., as a token of the respect and estimation in which he was 

 held, as a skilful, industrious, and upright servant ; a memento, certainly, 

 not the less honourable for Mr. Chapman to have deserved, than for His 

 Lordship to bestow. There are, in many parts of England, nurserymen 

 and gentlemen's gardeners who have had the advantage of Mr. Chapman's 

 instructions, and the benefit of his example; and who, if this note should 

 Ml under the observation of any of them, will be pleased to hear of the 

 honourable exit from their fraternity of an intelligent and honest roan. . .'. 



