THE 
AUGUST 14, 1875.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
without blame. About Montem Ње have the same 
fear of animal manur ine-producing vineyards 
are stacked in heaps is rot, ev 
*mould, which may оа together, I believe, 
ү} the us. resulting from Vine- used as fire- 
ee n why the flinty dust (if it be 
aye B of the Bordeaux 
id i one who can explain 
eculia 
e graves, the we own Bor- 
deaux white wines, are grown on. the gravelly soils— 
made wd lar gely 
e and its tributaries. "The late inundations 
ineral composition. of the soil differs, 
mething to'do with 
€ 
Ithink, has now been said to justify the 
aper on “The Alimentation of 
w that “J. S. W."i z a little un 
йу: d a ктер who writes 
thing, 
writing about an other. 
M. Dubois, not m 
credit of the dn which strives If spread, if i 
The “flin ng,” 
A Lien of пай бы ol ld servant, who 
regards with contempt eve po which 9 
stigmatises as ''inventio If a new plough or 
ме drill is brought home gs tries it for a day or twee 
en disposes of it with the faint es ** It's all 
ЖУ well, but I "ike the old one 
ember, Joseph, you 
er went down it was likely to 
a тори chanel Tor you," 
this PE Joseph thinks the barometer an 
*t invention," 
LONGFORD HALL, STRETFORD, 
THE RESIDENCE OF J. RYLANDs, EsQ. 
DESPITE adverse conditions of soil and a smoke- 
. more encouragement is given to horticulture, or where 
. greater efforts are counterbalance the unfa- 
F hI 1:4; + *4 " жй. 3 
Ping. 
than Stretford. Neither is there any other neigh- 
urhood where the comparatively short distance, 
say six or eight miles, that separates the east and 
north from the sor: == of the town, offers such а 
wide difference in the conditions conducive to success. 
. . And it is not alone to the wealthy that the pursuit is 
confined, for east and northwards from this enormous 
hive of industry, in the immediate vicis of what 
may be called its ramifications—the owns that 
in these directions stand so closely to а and each 
mpm to make it nar dou 
and another begins—are to be met with in the humbler 
walks of life, hundreds i vio devote their leisure hours 
to the cultivation h things as Арея 
side, y wet 
retentive nature of the clay soil, the wind for ten 
of the carries the smoke i in this ion. 
‘to the ungenial waste. * 
eta apo ofa mie a m iep 
э. 
ы, 
‚ floor of the house Aor 
B 
season, One past T Aur 
Blue 
and cool, containing a good deal of sand quite devoid 
very fertile, suffering little 
ford and Chorlton, overlooking the meadows on the 
banks of the M T gehe W which divides the counties of 
ire es 
ancashir The carriage drive winds 
its way through a piece ot meadow land in ne highest 
Rar gm cultivation, being provided with iron piping 
aid un 
БР 
the е surface, from whi ch the whole can be 
e 
many mi 
does not admit of E in the shape of fine distant 
n has been i. ed in 
y 
to the enormous quantity of glass devoted to the culti- 
vation of fruit and plants, The different houses, as will 
men, of w. 
mployed i i: oors, curbs, and 
shelving, which, although pre to begin with, when 
once done is done, and has a finish about it that more 
materials never possess. Mr. Rylands, in 
thened and con- 
the centre is the. Guest erg hel ‘of iem Are 
mansia leversaw. It is 14 feet in hei enl. nd was 
sheeted i 
flowers, The iron 
racter, the knife ал biis used to keep them 
eep 
within reasonable boun Interspersed about the 
permanent plants are 
ical i оороо паде іа 
sweet-scented 
Adjoining the eastern us conservatory is 
large Try fuc t) wid эга, 74 feet by 49 originally 
intended for fruit growing in pots. In such a house, if 
anywhere, with its great width and equable tempera- 
ture, which in a house of these dimensi be had 
at command, ч might have been i to onm 
answered, wit uiring an an unreasonable 
of attention ; yet Mes, as in most other places, : Si: та 
not found to be the case, and they po age. since been 
done away with. It is now filled a very fine lot 
С Camellias and Salt o Bays in 19 here also 
a magni e eec ond well fur- 
nished down to the pot. T conde vo Bator 
wded, but have plenty of 
that intersect it the 
There is no description 
gh n 
too often. seen, 
no. 
the floor, and from the wal 
la: 
f house t e, and 
her than necessary to accommodate the plants 
it contains, they always loo From pillar to 
pillar ‘that support the roof spring iron arches ; 
each pillar is planted a Vine, is trained with a 
single rod — a and over ants in ordinary Although not 
ines ovër 
an advocate Hich very light a hand wher 
yet insuch a a house as this, which 
sequently not 
very effective | 
when carrying a nice ыр: ЖЕР? sci even fruit, 
case visit. 
formi egular 
t 
ps KE. division, 59 и abe 18, 1 is тл 
flo lants. 
square. 
to close so з io creare the 
succeed in either stove or соси, Тһе other 
od ts of this house were such as 
nservatory. 
ringing on into flower through the win 
m this we enter the hard-wooded plant house. 
IO iy oS I8. The occupants c E. ЕЗ9 1- 
Aphelexis, Hedaromas, Phcenocomas, Poly- 
galas, and similar асар То ће 
f the stage, 
looking remarkably well, and so grown, аа long 
for any requir pose.- 
18 feet by 18, 
e now come to asm small house, 
anges t 
continuation of this three-sided But 
was a large plant of Musa amm carrying a fine 
cluster of fruit; with it a re good specimens o 
Seaforthia elegans, Latania borbonica, and Chamærops 
umilis, intermix 
18, where, amongst 
the large quantities = stalin gent houses of these 
dimensions hold, mos polices were fine niles of 
of Clerodendron LM of 
w m vr and proportionately more 
so as they increase i 
The next house, 60 foot by 18, is | filled with " 
clear 4 feet stem, a splendid head, 10 feet across, 
leaves drooping down to the ground ; De рк has 
twice flowered, I believe, within the 
This is the last in this 
first 
E by 20 20 feet, s Muscat with 
as 
ore was forced 
The Vines are planted on 
ir bearing bilities, carrying 
e koi 12 to 15 inches in "баамы, still 
the wood correspondingly strong 
The next is another of the small curvilinear hi 
s еу alluded to, 
with the others in size—18 feet by 
8. 
by a beautiful pyramid Bay, 20 feet high by 
е base, clothed perfectly from 
the ground upwards. is bear the 
winter out-of- Le in this locality, an 
hat ma in p 
soil in which are roots are placed is 
way, ^ mor -room a Vine e the stronger it 
iei I the — it will last ; a result simply in 
with ltivat 
sin any ма lant. The sorts are—Lady Downe's, 
Madresheld Court Black Alicante, Barbarossa, Mrs. 
Pince, Muscat of "Alexandria, ‘Trebbiano, and Childe 
of Hale, They were in fine condition, carrying five 
