— Novmuser 6, 1858.| THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 813 
k. Clipsto upposed ve bee orks of irrigation and draining, more especially on the 
before the Conquest, en ‘having io rae seized | | Carburton and Clipstone oa of the ie. and 
, All the e buildings will be connected with the Abbey by by 
telegraph ! 
ies , The new kitchen garden, a yor tes y no 
= resided and kept a court in its palace. | o th piece of table Tand, ms the: rs : to 1h an “ 
Bat from these magnificent specimens of other | name "a eo late Duke of Portland. A pans S Vrak diately! faces the grand entrance s „the valley beneath, 
5 state of W elbeck contains possibly some of | w ected over _the broad water of the lake, and a of 10 acres së: excellent land 
ap ee et tee timber in England, get of it of half. d twice subdivided by lofty brick walls, 18 
rtions, and in one particular monde in the ange of the Abbey. Other works, too, of vast magni- shee | in thickness —and surely none more beautiful 
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trees of enormous height and remarkably ugit, ; at th e same period on the Fullarton estate in Ayrshire. | and the whole is coped with freestone of the best 
oe of them described by Mearns in 1836 was nearly | Coeval with these great works the garden assumed | quality and workmanship. he gate and ay 
100 feet in height, and at 3 fe et. from the ground | much pae i ratte ete Se, Thomp- | entrances are yet incomplete; they will however be 
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sod 88 straight as the mast of a stip In south- | — of grea alent, rare “application, and in-| any g one occasionally visits, where even the best 
estem portion of the park 1l ing to hr sargas Firka nares observer of Nature, and a writer on the | — are simply “ bee ay in a wall.” This garden 
there is a broad drive through the finest Spruces I ever | science and practice of horticulture. The old fore-|is again bounded ed by 7 : in by a 
beheld, and these are intermixed with Deodars and | ing struc aia oe remodel sth ages Limp nanan and | iron: pkt ence, Ahe altogether there are 17 acres 
ether Cedars of considerable size, all of which look | range a! after range of gas struct rected until | of excellent land for fruit and vegetable culture. On 
ing and well. Deodars however do best in the the largest — put in | one of the pete walls, 750 dle in length, the 
È m seem to thrive most on elevated ground | the country. Mr. "Thompson no main range of forcing houses will l be e —the gar- 
pond blast can freely reach them from all poi issu : r K 1 r~ aja a capacious us stone building, being very 
% is in such situations that they assume their true | garden, but the vew sa nage | approp laced in tl the windows, how- 
look beautiful in their luxuriance. Pamat ì diate d ever, are of § as l and mean appearance al 
Á subterranean passage under one of the approaches tio th ructure; nor are they suited to the 
was formed as the a Sap to the pleasure notes would ada a faint t tribute to the nah a of purpose for whlch ae hm oy to have been intended— 
gwands and kitchen —an original jdea of Rep- | this good man, for his 
ton’s which was soon i Pe erar and Southill. wom a pronta course lsooft dof the broad 
The earthing up of the Abbey was also used as a m tinued in a correspondence and "end to the “latest walk on fe princi entrance re eee which I 
for the grand work at Woburn, apparently without | riod = = ge In a gh w before me, dated | submit or. can “The other subdivision wall 
the difference of position in these noble structures being | Welbeck, h May, 183 Mr. "Thom "tates, will be covered vith what i u paw popularly known as 
taken into consideration. “Tam now ge 3p this p = after a servitude of 30 | the “Tr ag » but on a much nobler scale than 
Such were some of the great works formerly sieoatel | years and 6 months.” He was s y Mr. John | the inal, In Pe space behind the = range of 
the great pi w. bee 2 re Repton’s | Mearns, a well-known writer on horticulture, who held iat the northern wall, two ranges of 
> ll al were continued | the appointment for a few years, and again pf Mr. half os rs roofed "Pine house, extending nearly half f the 
over a space of ore hero voor re carried on sim- | Tillery, the present th d l ted 
iimiy. with other operations ren nal itude | intendent, a name well known to horticultural fi will be b t 
seat at eos Park, near Uxbridge, and ed has now the brightest gardening fu sg a on the now taimers “fashionable wer viz., de 54 
lasting monuments of taste and genius. before him. of boilers; and I observed that those about to be 
pron extend from the south and Welbeck within the last five years has seen the | suc- | Re oe tain 
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northward, bounded on the one hand by the walls of | 82 and princely munificence, is ing Iso been taken to secure emt supply, of 
the kitchen garden, and by the margin of the water | most sweeping alterations poe magni ioen improve- ereet air in connection with the heating apparatus. 
on the other. These nds were remodelled by | ments, al ltogether unexampled in modern times. The|The whole of the warming will be area f to Mr. 
Lord aeti de Walden about the year 1830, a| Orangery at the soith esta -eastern angle of the Abe and | Meredith, who an pote gardener at Cliefden, but 
symmetrical garden of considerable size „having been | the costly iron bridge which spanned the wide ex who now resides at Garston, near Liverpool. Pits of 
laid out eile res middle of the place, in a position of water have been removed. The capacious ieties another dition » will (mile the a half 
however in no way defin yp stables, steward’s offices, and other buildings, forming | sp hind th o doubt 
elar object, and unenriched by any architectural | three sides of a large square, and the whole of t ! it ew be 
emament whatever—a mere square of figures filled | garden walls are in the process of demolition, tho such Mushroom houses 5, pott Soe 
with the usual description of bedding plants—a medley the | &e whew bh Te of. the ground has been frenched ren 
ofcolour over which the eye wandered vaguely, without present ; ; and these pens Ba the same appearance | levelled, a7ponsl side rable por rti m. of t the bsoil hav mg 
4 single resting place on which to fix. At |they did some 30 years si portion. In 
the extreme end of these unds the stream |0r three extra houses loving a (ded during that |a small space which has been pray cropped with 
is crossed by a bridge, and the walk leads pon. sa me oe oe now peste to be cl d 
owards a considerable. distance to the Botanìç|away have bee 0 yea The character. “Such a the effects of new soil in conjunc- 
incl f tent the higl q | buildings hitherto existing Hest Leg to the aller“ er tion with abundance of air and light,in an elevated 
and E facing the pleasure ground on the|the gar arden walls have all n remov e | situation. Trees ain Mr. pe ement 
apposite side of the water. Here, in 24 clumps of home farm on the Sg ground at the north end is | no doubt thrive equally well, edt 
reclame inthe system of dae nseus was illustrated by | 2/so in a transition state, and the whole of this ground | and borders will doubtless soon be 
collection of herbaceous plants; a sym will be laid down in Grass a ERT, E EA pee Pamietaj: SE ess such as the old garden in 
metrical garden occupied Ee "side and the whole was ; | pleasure ground. The shrubberies and pleasure grounds deplorable sit could never be Pa to Ea. 
Eira De oe of ev tke ee a walk | are being opened up by, es or etn te Sanh is a faint ¢ of the en! tong ‘ing out by the 
from thence led onwards to se, atthe! the | trees of value | to other -si Duke of Portland at Welbeck. D. 
> pre ining ‘one of the main wall : g sarong 
e ground. But such nd|g gin of the 1 32 h = 
scientific collections however ep ar oe apige; face of th h ee anag area 
ill with rað, oad of the tr “ds, = bottom oe been formed into as, of ae Tid Cumm —For the information of your 
a large dem e | perfect eggs which -are .now being in | corresponde ee a ern yl the whole stock 
en at A bd now being E A Sag ; the uildings in course o of erection ; 5. and this new por- | this i is still in in he raiser’s d can popan 
ite being assimilated with the surface of the resent Teis a Broc 
afford browsi nd for deer. | ine place’ ewe ao There Lek be out | but little known, it having been but once “extibie, 
ituation, size, |88_@ site for a grand conserv ues e space | viz., at the Cambridge Horticultural Show, 
Ilelogram, inclosed and subdi- | — s: Lord ghee de Walden’s Garden, which | the only sort to which was a ed a prise, Es 
ï will soo clea: way—a building which will no| seen it in a tion, and believe it to be ur- 
| doubt be = oy noble proportions and in harm irons with = rivalled for beanty and excellence of flavour as well as 
ce e o around. The public road, too, which “ee | diness. If comes in for m the 
by the hunting stables, malt- | grand pis veg will pe directed ari other of May; I feel satisfied that when it bet tong ore 
i ith the northern | exterior to all pro) improvements, and n which, a ree, nore it will be a sei favourite. James 
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‘rom nd runs pin s Prize jor Moker e Horti “et : 
pas into this garden. lso an | mile in a straigh iece = it on | jn Societe Zohn St James's al ring the wi 
the pleasure ground on the eastern side. | a considerable elevation at the exterior of the new por- | t tanding 
forcing pane oF this rds doing the tion of the . And here I Mig r vig that the | prize I offer f for Dioscorea Bata tatas. I distinctly st stated 
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experiments darted. outs and hig | 10 > in length. Within this vast circumference there | cg I have heard that several parties intend to put 
the cultivation i “the Pine ‘Apple and exist a n competition ara mon a É wil be etl 
he pes of which was peruni in Tast Saris & the fence and at the en at f the p if allowed to do so nei ‘Paranips, or kó 
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are iniedibe an dards of Be dealt toa considerable distance, as far as the piers entrance | verbo Se rae main two years ‘Il Poe 
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= ie “very father o of Vine e growing,” | side three long ranges of ‘olldings are also in progress; | vided there i bs suficient Se E T ted H also ienee nt 
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> ng grown the largest bunch of Sra a has | for strangers” horses. Further to the left a neat dairy and | I am sure that it wo would ete Fe, t 0 es ei it isa a 
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g produced a bunch 19} Ibs. i left between these buildings and the kitchen amiga for | class vegetable, and 
to he age. Sia o i ft as artificers’ shops; on the right hand ai variably find more eats mates r se sath 
any of bear enormous bunches, a single shoulder $ from | and offices for the steward, and a canteen or kab p | purchase anything new — 
ee formed material for a very good sized dish, | as far as the first floor. tedere onwards to “the than in any Se Nov. & 
Wai of: the: present ee saw | kitchen garden there is on the right hand side a Cutbush, Hi ee h 
en the auspices of a new yl sq tabli ing, and now some 4 or 5| Sesamum —Can 
of a utilitarian ¢ great magnitude re, i | feet above und, sufficient 1 
pace rere than ornamental cara} were weve, 10 Saket in the centre of this la 
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ows ion unfitted for successful | there is a site marked out for a gas house. T 
wore unde nc mse wae dth “bre the basis on which ail | these buildings will be in he ret Baia and chaste | 
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w covered with thriy stes on Sherwood aa | style « of eg u S SARAT paria pasion: ated. lis 
