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a fruit. On the south-west wall we noticed the Marie Louise, remark¬ 
ably fine : some of its single fruit approaching nearly a pound in weight; 
also the Glou Morceau, literally covered with beautiful clear fruit ; 
Knight’s Monarch, a variety highly reccommended by Mr. Ingram, for 
a late keeping kind, and not only a good keeper but some will ripen a 
month before the others; and, after it is fit for table, it will remain 
perfectly so for four or five weeks—two valuable properties in the Pear ; 
and Van Mons Leon le Clerc, a very fine handsome sort. On the 
north-west aspect we saw beautiful crops of the Ne Plus Meuris, Seckel, 
and Beurre Ranee, the latter one of our best late keeping kinds. On 
the north-east the Dunmore, Fondante de Automne, Winter Crassane, 
Winter Nelis, Beurre Diel, Shobden Court, a useful late Pear. On 
each side of the centre walk there are some beautiful pyramid trees, from 
13 to 14 ft. high, and perfect in symmetry. The varieties grown in this 
form are the Louise Bonne (of Jersey), Seckel, Napoleon, Passe Colmar, 
and -Colmar de Aremberg. Independent of this garden, the south¬ 
west and north-west aspects in the large squares are devoted to Pears, 
about the same in character as what we have described. The varieties 
growing upon the south-west wall were Williams’ Bon Chretien, Passe 
Colmar, Chaumontel, Winter Nelis, Beurre Bose, Napoleon, Easter 
Beurre, Louise Bonne (of Jersey). All those varieties named appeared 
to thrive remarkably well on that aspect. On the north-west wall were 
mostly the same kinds, as named, in the Pear garden. 
We then passed into a garden with Apricots upon the south-east 
and south-west walls. Although these crops were just going over, we 
could judge what the trees had had upon them. We were told that 
from 30 to 40 dozen were gathered from each tree, this season. The 
varieties chiefly grown and approved of are the Moor Park, Shipley’s, 
Hemskirk, Frogmore Seedling, and Large Early; the latter a very 
useful kind, ripening fully 10 days before any other variety. The 
north-west is a Currant wall, and one of the finest we ever saw; they 
are trained vertically, and, covering a wall 12 ft. high, they have more 
the appearance of vigorous vines. The sorts are chiefly the Gloucester 
Red; Red Grape, and White Grape. 
The next of these gardens we passed into was devoted to Peaches and 
Nectarines against the south-west, south-east, and north-east walls. 
Here we saw again some examples of out-door fruit culture. The trees 
are what are termed standards or riders trained in the stellar form (a 
kind of fan system) ; they are planted 24 feet from tree to tree, leaving 
each one to cover the space of 288 square feet, and so perfectly have 
they done it that from one end of the wall to the other scarcely a brick 
is visible. Although they are now from 14 to 15 years old, they do 
not display the slightest inclination to become bare, and what appeared 
most strange to us was that they were more vigorous near the stem than 
they were towards the extremity. This, we were told, was owing to 
the plan on which they grow them in these gardens (a system that 
cannot be explained in this account, but will appear in the Florist in 
course of time). They had all beautiful crops without an exception, 
and we were astonished to find fine crops and well matured fruit of the 
Peach and Nectarine upon a north-east wall. We observed particularly 
