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than the white muscat, and the berries are longer and more 

 pointed : it is possible, however, that these differences may not 

 be permanent. 



Sea-kale is planted in raised beds, the sides of which are kept 

 up by flag-stones set on edge : the plants did not grow well before 

 this plan was adopted, probably owing to the shallowness of the 

 soil ; but now they are very vigorous. A large and commodious 

 gardener's house stands very conveniently at the west end of 

 this garden ; and a broad and straight gravel-walk, with flower- 

 borders on each side, leads from the house to a door which is 

 the principal entrance to the garden from the park. This slip of 

 flower-ground separates the garden above described from two 

 other walled compartments, one of which contains a fig-house 

 and two pine-stoves, all having vines on the rafters. The fig- 

 trees are planted in a border in the house, and trained as dwarf 

 bushes \ and there are likewise trees growing in narrow stone 

 cases, about a foot wide, and two feet deep, which are fixed 

 against the back wall. All the trees are young, but they seem to 

 bear well. Nearly all the area of the south division is occupied 

 by a pond, stocked with various kinds of waterfowl, and having 

 a small island in the middle, inhabited by tame rabbits and guinea- 

 pigs. This division contains a very narrow vinery, used for 

 early forcing, which, with the pit before mentioned, was formerly 

 heated by hot water; but Mr. Cuthbertson found that, when bad 

 weather made it necessary to keep the house closed for several 

 days, its atmosphere became so heavily charged with moisture, 

 that water constantly stood in drops upon the leaves of the vines : 

 he therefore substituted smoke-flues. This defect, however, must 

 have arisen from some other cause ; for water cannot, under any 

 circumstances, penetrate through iron ; neither can there be any 

 difference in the nature ordesiccative properties of the heat given 

 out by hot water and by smoke, if the channels through which 

 they are conveyed be properly constructed. 



Besides the houses I have enumerated, there are two fruiting 

 pine-stoves : in these the bark bed fills the whole of the house, 

 and a door in the back wall serves for admission, when watering, 

 or any other operation, is necessary. An experiment is now 

 in the course of trial by Mr. Cuthbertson, to ascertain whether 

 bottom heat might not be advantageously supplied to pine-plants 

 by means of hot-water pipes. 



An orchard, containing a great variety of the most approved 

 hardy fruits, was planted, a few years since, by the present 

 gardener, whose judicious improvements in most of the depart- 

 ments of the garden under his charge are highly creditable to 

 his judgment. The kitchen-garden, at the time I saw it, was 

 in excellent order, and exceedingly well cropped : the pine-apples, 



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