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better even than those in the first house. It is proper to remark that both houses 
are heated by hot-water pipes. The next house is a Peach-house. The trees 
are planted to root out into the outside border, and the branches are trained to 
trelliswork as in an ordinary Peach-house; but the trelliswork is kept low 
enough to allow the sun to reach the back wall, against which trees are also 
planted. I need scarcely remark that these trees also look well. This house, 
like the others, is heated by hot water, indeed the whole range is well heated. 
We understand the hot-water work was done by Messrs. Jones & Sons, of 
Bankside. The next house is a plant-stove, and contains a nice collection of 
all the leading kinds of good stove plants. There is a break in the range here, 
a walk from the enclosed garden leading through to the outer garden. Going 
onwards through the range the next house we entered was a greenhouse, con¬ 
taining a nice lot of young promising specimens ; the other three houses are 
vineries. All the best kinds of Vines have been planted, and have made remark¬ 
ably strong fine wood for the short time they have been established. There were 
a few bunches on some of the strongest, which were very good, fit to compete at 
the International at Edinburgh. There is a long wall of Peach trees covered with 
glass, but no heat. The trees looked very promising, the leaves being quite 
green and healthy, very different from our own trees and those of all our 
neighbours, which were unprotected, and which have been completely denuded 
of all their foliage by the myriads of flies which settled on them in the early part 
of September. Besides the glass already mentioned, there is an early vinery 
and early Peach-house; also two other vineries, one a very large one, which 
has borne immense crops for a number of years. These two, we understand, 
are to be removed in consequence of some contemplated improvements which 
are shortly to be made. Out-door fruits have been an average crop except, 
perhaps, Strawberries, which were only partial. We noticed a number of 
fine young Pear trees on quince stocks, laden with good crops of very fine fruit; 
but the soil of the district suits fruit trees. A fine sheet of water separates 
the kitchen garden from the mansion and pleasure ground. There are immense 
large patches of the white Water Lily in it, which have a fine effect when in 
full flower. By a bridge which spans the lake we pass over to the pleasure 
grounds, these are not very extensive, but they are very well kept, as indeed 
is the whole place. The flower garden is large, and is one of the old-fashioned 
kind ; some of the large beds and borders were planted with Boses and hardy 
perennials, but Geraniums and other bedding plants monopolise the greater 
portion of the garden. This garden is so well sheltered that if anything in 
the sub-tropical way were attempted, we do not know another place in Yorkshire 
where it would be so likely to succeed. 
M. S. 
NOTES OF THE FLOBAL AND FBUIT COMMITTEES. 
South Kensington, October 3rd. 
One of the “gems” submitted to the Floral Committee was a Nosegay 
Pelargonium, named La Grande, from the veteran Mr. George Smith, of Tol- 
lington Nursery, Hornsey Boad. The flowers are bright orange scarlet shaded 
with purple, remarkably stout and well formed for a flower in this section; a large 
and very striking truss, and the habit dwarf and stiff. A first-class certificate 
was awarded to it. A second-class award was made to Mr. Turner for seedling 
Fancy Dahlia Le Domino Noir, crimson tipped with white ; good outline, and 
close centre. Mr. Turner also had Arrah-na-Pogue ; Artemus Ward, pale choco¬ 
late ground, tipped with rosy purple, small, but promising; and Arthur, a full- 
sized flower, colour rosy lilac, large petals, and good outline. Mr. Bragg, of 
