September 25, 1890. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
273 
Passing outside we come to the forcing houses, the first the Tomato 
house, in which was a good crop of fruit. The Melon house had a 
good late crop, Mr. Cromwell speaking in the highest terms of 
Sutton’s Scarlet Invincible, and certainly the fruit was very fine, with 
Sutton’s Monarch and Hero of Lockinge. In the Cucumber house the 
latest had just been planted, and here I noticed some grand plants 
resting of Dendrobiums thyrsiflorum, fimbriatum oculatum, crassinode, 
King, and Marie Louise, and Duchesse d’Angouleme being the best. 
Toe pleasure grounds are well kept, and contain some fine specimen 
Hollies, a choice collection of herbaceous plants, and I was pleased to 
notice a fine bed of Lilium lancifolium rubrum, with hundreds of 
flowers, in a sheltered position on the lawn, and an oblong bed of Lilium 
auratum. Altogether the place is kept up in first-class style, and certain 
to be with such a man as Mr. Cromwell at the head of affairs. My 
Fig. 32.—Mr. WILLIAM THOMSON (see page 2G3). 
•&c. A large roomy Peach case 90 feet long has been reared against a 
.■s >uth wall. The trees are specimens of good culture. A few fruits of 
Barrington large in size and of good colour, and Princess of Wales, very 
good, were still on the trees, the other varieties grown being Royal 
‘George and Grosse Mignonne, and of Nectarines Lord Napier, Pineapple, 
and Violette Hative. The frames are filled with a good selection of 
'Cyclamens, Primulas, Poinsettias, Gardenias, and other plants. About 
•GUO Chrysanthemums are grown, but of these I will speak later, as they 
will be worth noting. Fruit is very scarce, Lord Suffieid and Warner’s 
visit was a thoroughly enjoyable one, and I left Clevelly with a know¬ 
ledge that things were going on in the best possible manner.— 
R. P. Roby. __ 
THE AURICULA. 
Its Longevity and Times fob Repotting. 
By the life of any one stem, head, lead, growth, or plant the Auricula 
is a limited perennial. An individual growth will maintain its vigour 
