560 Notices of Gardens in Yorkshire: — 



Like many old gardens, it has been made at diiferent periods, 

 by successive additions of portions of ground, as the more varied 

 requirements or greater consumption of the family needed : for 

 our homely ancestors seem to have been satisfied with a very 

 hmited variety of garden productions. The principal garden is 

 a parallelogram, divided into quarters by walks, which are mostly 

 bordered by fruit trees of different kinds. I observed here (what 

 I never saw elsewhere in the north) a standard Kentish cherry 

 tree, loaded with fruit. The peach-wall, on the north side of this 

 garden, is covered by fine young trees ; which, however, as is the 

 case in most places this year, have very little fruit upon them. 

 A large green-house was built, a few years since, about the middle 

 of this wall : the front of the house is on a line with the wall; and 

 the ends, being behind it, are not of glass ; and this, in conjunction 

 with vines trained to the rafters, causes the house to be ill adapted 

 to the growth of plants. An original, but expensive, method of 

 forming espalier rails has been adopted : iron rods, of perhaps 

 half an inch in circumference, are stretched horizontally one 

 above another, about a foot apart, and supported at intervals by 

 iron uprights t to keep the rods straight, a framework of iron, 

 sunk into a large stone, is fixed at each end. At one end of this 

 garden there is a double row of pine-pits, heated by hot water 

 and by dung linings : the latter are sunk into the ground, and 

 covered with a framing of boards. A somewhat similar pit, but 

 without linings, and heated by smoke-flues, is used for the growth 

 of grapes. The vines are planted outside, and introduced through 

 the front wall. The entrance is at the back, descending by stone 

 steps to the paved floor of the house, which is several feet below 

 the level of the ground. The vines cover the whole of the roof, 

 and are pruned according to the system described by Mr. 

 Mearns [Hort. Trans., vol. iv. p. 246.), only Mr. Cuthbertson (the 

 gardener) allows them three years to reach the top of the house,, 

 instead of two : the principle, however, is the same ; and in 

 practice it suceeds admirably, for the house contained an immense 

 crop of very large fruit : in fact, the vines were overloaded, and,, 

 in consequence, the Hamburghs were not colouring well. The 

 Tottenham Park muscat (generally considered identical with the 

 white muscat of Alexandria) was in fruit in this house, as was 

 also the Cannon Hall and the white muscat. From a comparison 

 of the fruit (full grown, and beginning to change colour,) of the* 

 three vines in question, I am incUned to think that the Tottenham 

 Park muscat is a distinct variety, but less strongly marked than 

 the Cannon Hall ; and Mr. Cuthbertson, who has had the op- 

 portunity of comparing the plants and fruit in every stage of 

 their growth for several years, has no doubt whatever of its dis- 

 tinctness. There is a sort of stiffness in the appearance of the 

 bunches, resembling in that particular the Cannon Hall rather 



