570 Notes on Country Seats and Gardens. 



Coup-d'oeil sur Beloeil, par le Prince Visser's Views in Holland. Anister- 



de Ligne. Beteil, 1786. dam, no date. 



Millin's Antiquites Nationales. Paris, Ornemens de Berain. Paris, no date. 



1790. Fontaines, par Le Brun. No date. 



Vuesd' Amsterdam. Amsterdam, 1805. Teatro di Venezia. Venezia, No date. 



Voyages dans I'ancienne France, par Oppenort's Architecture. No date. 



Taylor, Nodin, &c. Paris, 1815. Plafonds de la Galerie de Florence. 

 Laborde, Monumens de la France. No date. 



Paris, 1816. Vitruvien Denmarken. No date or 

 Falda, Fontane di Roma. Roma, place. 



no date. Architecture des Jardins, par Filet. 

 Works of Visentini. No date. No date or place. 



Besides a great number of county histories ; and a great variety of old 

 works on chivalry, heraldry, fetes, and processions. 



In the kitchen-garden, and also in a large garden, which may be called a 

 nursery, hardy and house plants of various kinds are bringing forward for the 

 terrace gardens and conservatories now forming at Harlaxton new Manor; 

 and for stocking the indigenous woods there. There is also an excellent col- 

 lection of grapes, and the manner in which these are cultivated by Mr. Wade 

 the gardener, particularly in one house, having a pit for pines or other plants, 

 is new, and well deserving of imitation. 



The back wall of this house is flued, and the space allotted for the back 

 alley is given to the vines as a border for their roots. If the pine-pit walls 

 had been thrown upon arches, a greater increase of space for the extension 

 of their roots would of course have been available. The circumstance of 

 root and branch being thus out of the reach of the atmospheric changes belong- 

 ing to the early months of the year is very important to early forcing, and 

 the back wall having a flue running very contiguous to these roots places the 

 climate, and the period of commencing their growth, completely in the power 

 of the cultivator. It is only in such a situation that the delicate and perfumed 

 sorts, such as Purple White Constantia and the Grizzly Frontignan, perfect 

 and mature their growth and ripen their fruit. 



The mode adopted at the Royal Gardens at Kensington, as detailed in some 

 of the early volumes of this Magazine, of constructing the top sashes of the 

 roof of a size exactly to fill up the space and height from the back pit wall 

 up to the roof of the house, is a very great and ingenious improvement ; for 

 by this means the back wall crop can be made to have a winter, or rather 

 state of rest, and the main body of the house still kept for its usual purposes ; 

 the back alley being alone detached from it, and exposed during the latest 

 summer months to the open air. 



This forms the arrangement for the first crop of grapes. The second, or 

 intermediate, crop is obtained by allotting the space for the front alley as a 

 border for the vines, so that the roots are here again never submitted to atmo- 

 spheric changes ; but, as there is no flue which can be said to be sufficiently 

 near to this border to lend to it an increased state of heat, it has been found 

 that the afore-named tender sorts, with a very luxuriant growth, and great 

 vigour and size of bunch, will never ripen on this border, although they do so 

 very successfully in the same house on the back wall, where there is a flue 

 worked with a very gentle fire. The Hamburg, Sweetwater, and Muscat have 

 ripened in that situation. These vines are trained to the rafters. 



The third crop is derived from the border out of doors, in the usual way, 

 and the vines are trained to the rafters. The succession is obtained by wintering 

 them along the front uprights of the house, and placing them between two 

 walls or screens of glass. They are, by this glass chamber, if we may so call 

 it, never exposed to the entire rigour of the winter, and are introduced into 

 the house to their rafters at the option of the gardener, or as late as their 

 tendency to break their buds admits of. 



This arrangement utilises as much as possible the area both of glass and 

 ground, does not destroy the facilities of circulation, or of cultivating pines 



