NOVEMBER 7, 1874.] 
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GARDENERS. 
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rted by one ajte also moving on a hinge; the 
a oat ad of t trees, a fire-place near one 
> Men were piety; go ood plac 
Sainani, ‘nome one it till Novant; 1838, 
as I found it. 
“My ~ ainen was with Mr. John Mc- 
Naughten, father of my 1 worthy chief, to g 
as n to Edmonstone House, near Edinburgh 
Mr. McNaughten was well wn amongst Scotch 
gardeners about half a century ago, and at one time 
is profess the time I enter 
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lace, notwithstanding which à bó "liked to ‘fight his 
les o'er again,’ which he often did, in my hearing, 
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i was is aae if 
nae oa keep it 
“On one occasion, either in the an a 1839 
or 184o, if T remem ember right, a specia 
for the best dish of Mushrooms 
wever, come o 
was i ected. 
ee g the lively gesticulations and happy face of 
when his attenti t directed 
to inquisitive rivals. 
mstone, and immediately entered on 
Present E saasa 
“A few months poe, General Sir Sk jia ae 
ad su 
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Eat of Stair and the Wigtonshire ellie The sont 
a awas mostly non-resident, and took little interest 
3 consequently the gardens a or ounds 
g long period literally allowed to run wild. 
arriving here, on walking ro met T 
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as a man’s leg, had established them- 
. been a fine range of Rl 
with half the glass out, and were other- 
The Vines indide had 
e, and were tied up to the roof 
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then 
had been laid out by 
"a century before, in the ancient 
Sa Most of the old trees had lately 
Stig t down and sold ; the quaint old grass terraces 
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sme food, as seen in its ota upon the fruit, 
e| obse that when Vines were | 
of the 
all but isg Ah by cattle being allowed " graze 
neglec verywhere apparen 
of Things wh which could not be long tolerated by the new 
s were ina 
most A pa state, and that they "a long been 
the of my predecessors, and t 
sAn ey and manured 
m attended to, the c 
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old Vines, the more so as 
a I commana by iting = rete inside the 
one year and o e the a portion of 
new sal tidk. told Bxvonrably at they remained in 
it, but I found they soon left it, and p "a ated into 
the abel, and sbanking once more se 
“ After a series of experiments with Vine, roots about 
this time, I was much stru 
I was 
surprised , to ve 
y aitis inside a vinery, = perfect freedom, to go 
out, they were soon fou utside in the proportion 
a plainiy teaching tha t Vin 
under. Tam ai crops amine a 
sn baal which shold presume ee 
sweeter than inside, on account of shade 
paved, t 
roots inside the made aa and that a deep border 
is preferable to a broad one, because less liable to 
suffer from drought. 
**T also observed that in a ne heya d well- dened 
border, neither v under nor ap done, other condition 
being favourable, the Vine grew with 
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earlier 
ectly. drained — Si fee not 
in in such borders, 
as a state | 
chambers, hot-water pipes, flues, &c., have been intro- 
I have found to answer t, and 
recommended, is a moderately-drained, deep border, 
ith openi utside, communicati ith the sur 
face inside, and so place o cause a slow current 
with some of its caloric ; and this reais the te ra- 
ture of the border a few degrees during the growing 
season, This I first ppt rng the old vineries at Castle 
Kennedy in 1844, and again on the new ones, which 
commenced to b eem in 1858, and have since 
adopted at numerous other places. The advantage 
does not appear to me os te i 
increased Sapratare dur 
summer, a n the 
growing betas ind went rom in 
at these periods, root action 
fruit buds at the latter ‘part ss ve a is cannot be 
dons unless the oth are aon 
‘In 1841, the yea peraji ion with this 
place comme enced, it w was decided by the then Earl of 
Stair, after much ces nsideration, to rem 
Kennedy, keeping 
h 
and continuing thes ancient style of gardening 
fying it to a limited extent to suit modern ideas as 
ar as 3 peniddale or old C ly was con- 
cerned, and to form a park be which 
und Castle Kennedy. The Lou 
pleasure of making the wilatehes of this pena 
le and hear him at great length expound his 
e, and what 
o e to improve it. ad a 
part of the grounds T when en which has 
since an put in executio 
ugh at first engaged only to manage = 
end my s 
Big ol n to ext 
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eee their execut sie 
“At a period when almost every authority on - 
j ed Conifers, we had 
to and a limited allow- 
ance to purchase plants. with, which would not go far 
in purchasing when most of the newer sorts cost 
inea or upwards ea s I propagated the 
finer and rarer sorts by grafting—for I could not propa- 
gate maar of ver any other he ground 
ain unplan Reasoning from a 
I could AF pio if a ite stock was ae sen, 
and the opera ation , Properly pefiormed, how a grafted 
| Conifer would n of grow, as well as a grafted fruit or 
ornamental tree perse face of much 
Vi id bes very w 
particularly if the rain ase in nabundance during the time. | 
the 
wood was forming and the fruit swelling. More- 
over, I could not help veflesting that there was some- 
thing saion at fault in our management, seeing the 
great di £ temperature that we caused 
exist betwixt the root a 
inside which. ne 
mer Sera re lesared seamed à 
eee a: “wbich we 
ow, man ay Ei mens 
from 30 to 40 feet in wou pr 
Apie er, egies iy fart 
graft eans ; and by-and- i ie graed trees, 
abund.- 
still more mporn m 
fers, raised from home-grown ch | thi 
without sufficient experience, a ie unjustly con- 
wn observation aaya zong since led me to con- 
ved from healthy trees, 
whether the 
foreign trees. Oue i n 
| that seedling Conifers, of numerous species, 
ere and elsewhere s m., home-aro7e seed 
to be, 
in 1872, Nor can we omit 
