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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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site side of the walk being a Rhododendron border backed 
with taller shrubs. The walk between the two borders is 
100 yards long; and the borders sloping to the walk, and the 
walk itself to the Tyne Valley, afford an extensive view of 
the distant hills through a floral vista of great beauty during 
the spring and summer months. Such are some of the 
attractive features of Holeyn. We turn now to the more 
useful yet not much less enjoyable enclosures devoted to the 
growth of fruit and vegetables. 
In the walled kitchen garden we find what is rarely seen 
except in gardens that have long been under the charge of 
the same manager—namely, grand espalier fruit trees. These 
trees are models of good training, the result of years of atten- 
tive care. The branches of these trees are horizontally trained 
as “ straight as gun rods” and of great length. They are 
about a foot apart, and are studded with spurs “close at 
home,” and bear abundant crops of fine fruit. Than trees 
such as these few are more profitable considering the space 
| they occupy, and nothing imparts a better or more appropriate 
| appearance to a kitchen garden. The walls, too, are well 
| covered with well-trained and profitable fruit trees, such Pears 
| as Marie Louise and Jargonelle being grown on the south wall, 
and these produce splendid fruit. The vegetable quarters by 
their productiveness and cleanliness indicate that the same 
care is bestowed on them as on the ornamental portions of the 
grounds. At the front of the kitchen garden is the hardy fruit 
garden. It is bounded by shrubs, and intersected by grass 
walks kept close by the mowing machine. But the trees are 
the prominent attraction. The standard orchard trees have 
been trained, and are as regularly pruned as the espaliers ; the 
branches are consequently thinly disposed and are studded with 
spurs to the base. In a notoriously bad fruit year these trees 
were laden with fruit, the finest crop that came under my 
notice during the year of my gardening rambles from Kent to 
the Grampians. 
The glass structures remain to be briefly noticed. They are 
Fig. 60—HOLEYN HALL. 
not extensive. The vineries are about 100 feet in length, and 
produce a good supply of excellent fruit. Peaches, Plums, 
and Apples are also grown under glass in a lean-to structure 
150 feet in length ; Peaches being chiefly trained on the back 
wall, and the Plums and Apples being grown as bushes in the 
border. The latter consist chiefly of Calville Blanche, New- 
town Pippin, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Melon Apple, and Dutch 
Mignonne, all of which are well adapted for and are highly 
worthy of orchard-house culture. Smaller houses, also frames, 
are devoted to plants for decorative purposes. The houses 
were erected by Mr. Bowman of Newcastle, and were heated 
by Messrs. Walker & Emley of the Neville Iron Works— 
firms of good repute in the district, and even beyond it. It 
may be truthfully said of the gardens and structures at Holeyn 
Hall that every corner was occupied, and every portion clean 
and ornamental. 
The gardener’s house demands a note from its great age and 
comfortable character. A date on it is prominent— 1687. 
Though venerable, it, like its tenant, yet appears strong ; and 
those who best know Mr. Cooke hope that it will afford him 
shelter for many years to come. As prominent ornaments of 
one of the rooms are a handsome wine case, with an inscrip- 
tion telling that it was presented by Col. Burrell and officers 
of a regiment stationed in Newcastle in recognition of the 
excellent fruit supply from Holeyn; also gold medals ang 
silver cups which have been won in public competition. 
Mr. Cooke is admittedly one of the most useful members of 
the working Committee of the flourishing and successfu? 
Botanical and Horticultural Society of Newcastle—a Society 
that was seldom more successful than during the year when 
Major Woods was its honoured President.—J. WRIGHT, 
TEA AND NOISETTE ROSES. 
Ir is seldom that even the most critical reader can take 
exception to the opinions of the “HEREFORDSHIRE INCUM- 
BENT’’ in his remarks about Roses; yet I, as a tyro in Rose- 
growing, was struck with wonder at one or two of his remarks 
that recently appeared in the Journal. Surely the ‘“ HERE- 
FORDSHIRE INCUMBENT” has grown Bouquet d’Or, which is, 
unless Iam mistaken, a seedling from Gloire de Dijon. Is it 
possible that this lovely Rose does not open with him? My 
short experience, too, of the two Roses, President and Perle de 
Lyon, is just the reverse of his. I have grown both Roses in 
the Weald of Kent clay and in my present garden of light 
gravelly soil, and yet in both gardens President has shown 
himself a weak grower, while Perle de Lyon has been very 
robust. I may say that I have seen the latter in a very light 
