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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
January 16 . 
TEMPLE NEWSAND. 
The Seat of C. H. M. Ingram, Esq. 
This fine old place, four miles from Leeds, formerly 
belonged to tlie Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and is 
very happily situated on a commanding emiuence over¬ 
looking the fertile valley of Airedale. The park is well 
clothed with noble trees, and there is a fine avenue of 
ancient Elms, shading the carriage drive from the 
scorching heats of summer, affording shelter to also a 
very large herd of deer. 
The gardens have been famous for many years for 
the,production of excellent fruit, especially Pine apples; 
and it is somewhat remarkable that the head-gardeners 
have been of one family, in succession, for three genera¬ 
tions. The first, Mr. Taylor, was a most excellent man, 
and, probably, was the first gardener in Great Britain 
that produced Queen Pine-apples weighing five or six 
pounds weight each. In his time, the place was quite 
noted for good gardening, and was reckoned the best 
school for young gardeners in Yorkshire. Unfortunately, 
when at the zenith of its reputation, a tremendous 
tliunderstorm, accompanied by a heavy shower of hail¬ 
stones, completely destroyed every pane of glass, and, in 
a great measure, the Vines, Pines, and other plants. This 
is more than forty years ago. I was living with my 
parents at the time, about three miles off, and perfectly 
remember observing the black clouds that overhung 
Temple Newsand. Such was the destruction, that the 
then proprietor did not think it prudent to repair the 
houses, and they remained in that dilapidated state for 
many years. In the meantime Mr. Taylor died, it was 
said, of a broken heart, and was succeeded by his nephew, 
who held the chief command of the garden establish¬ 
ment till that remarkable and deplorable year that the 
Asiatic Cholera visited the British shores. He was on 
a visit to London at the time, and caught the infection, 
came home, and died. His son, the present gardener, 
was then, comparatively, a youth, but the present owner 
of the place thought him a sufficient gardener to manage 
the place, and gave it to him. His judgment of the 
youth was correct. Under his fostering care, supported 
by liberal encouragement, the houses have been rebuilt, 
and there are now there as good Pines as at any place 
in the kingdom. 
The last of the old houses was pulled down last year, and 
handsome ones put up in their stead. The central one 
is for stove-plants, with a vinery on each side. Beyond 
these there is a lofty conservatory, of considerable extent, 
filled with noble Orange-trees, and Camellias in large 
pots and tubs. The back wall is covered with Camellias 
planted out, and very well they look, with foliage dark 
green, and healthy, and abundance of flower-buds on 
every shoot. The first year this house was finished 
almost every leaf was destroyed. The glass was of the 
usual kind, in large squares, and such was the power of 
the sun’s rays through this clear, transparent glass, that 
all the leaves of the plants inside were scorched and 
completely turned white! Mr. Taylor had it covered 
with whiting and various kinds of shades, and at last 
has recovered his plants, and got them into as perfect 
health and good colour as is possible. I visited the 
place on the 5th instant, and can bear testimony to the 
fact. Many of the Camellias were covered with bloom 
of the finest colours. 
The gardens are of great extent, placed on the sloping 
side of a hill facing the south. The situation is good, 
being neither too low nor too high. It is pretty well 
sheltered from the west winds by lofty plantations, and 
surrounded by good brick walls, covered with healthy, 
beautifully-trained fruit-trees. The principal cluster of 
glass houses is on the lowest part of the garden, but 
there is a range on the highest wall, occupied with Vines 
and Orange-trees. These two fruits, Mr. Taylor says, 
do well together; and, certainly, the Orange-trees looked 
beautiful. The house is lofty, and the Vine stems are, 
consequently, long, or rather, I should say, tall before 
the bearing wood commences. In a conversation I had 
with Mr. Taylor, he gave it as his decided opinion, 
borne out by experience, that “ the further the Vine 
extends its bearing-shoots the finer will be the fruit;” 
and, certainly, this idea is borne out by experience, for 
every Grape-grower will readily admit that the finest 
Grapes are, in general, those that are the furthest from 
the root. The Vine stems in this house are at least 
nine feet high, the front glass being that height, and 
these Vines produce excellent fruit and plenty of it. At 
each end of the house a Vine is planted. One is that 
famous variety the Blach Barbarossa, and the other is 
one known as Lady Doan's Seedling, a variety not much 
grown out of Yorkshire; but said to be a large, fine, 
black Grape, of an oval shape and good flavour, though 
rather tough-skinned, a circumstance that accounts for 
its good keeping quality. When this variety becomes 
better known it will be in demand, and more generally 
cultivated. The leaves, when decaying, change to a 
scarlet hue; they are very deeply cut, rendering the 
variety very conspicuous. The Orange-trees in this 
house, ten in number, were covered with fruit quite ripe, 
and of a good size. The trees are all standards, with 
fine heads, and good, healthy leaves. They are regularly 
pruned, and are certainly improved thereby, not having 
that close, dense, cropped appearance that many Orange- 
trees imported from the continent have. 
Large garden establishments, like the place now 
under notice, have, necessarily, a great number of fires, 
which, when early forcing is going on, and the fires for 
Pine-stoves, &c., are all belching forth their inky clouds, 
the garden looks something like a manufacturing district. 
This always appeared to Mr. Taylor as a capital subject 
for indictment under the Nuisance Act; and, therefore, 
to prevent such a catastrophe, he set to work, whilst the 
new houses were erecting, and so arranged the flues 
from every fire, however high or low, that the smoke was 
all collected into one main flue, two-and-a-half feet deep 
and two feet wide. This main is carried right up the 
garden, under every walk, wall, and hedge, into a field, 
some distance behind the garden, and there carried up 
a substantial brick chimney, some fifty feet high. The 
smoke from upwards of twenty fires is thus carried clear 
away from the gardens. In many instances, the smoke 
has to descend several feet to get into the main, but that 
makes no difference, the draught is excellent. I saw a 
piece of coal laid on the fire, the door closed, and in less 
than three minutes it was in a perfect state of combus¬ 
tion. Many were the direful prognostics of the wise¬ 
acres that the scheme would fail. Some said, the smoke 
would, nay could, not possibly descend; otherssaid.it 
would be neceessary to keep a fire constantly burning 
at the foot of the tall chimney, to cause a draught, or to 
dry up the damps, from the long flue through the garden; 
whilst others were sure that flue would frequently blow 
up by hot air meeting cold. All these Job’s comforters, 
which every man of genius has to contend with when 
he departs out of the ordinary mode, were, in this case, 
entirely proved to be false prophets; for there the smoke 
rises; there the flue stands, and every fire and boiler 
does its work regularly as clock-work. Formerly, the 
glass outside was smoke-begrimed, the slates of the 
sheds as black as soot, and even the plants inside 
became of a cloudy hue; but now—I speak from actual 
eyesight—the glass is quite clean, the slates are becoming 
white, and no plants anywhere look so bright and clean; 
even they are like the school-boy with shining morning 
face. Inis carrying away the smoke is not, however, 
confined to these gardens; the same is done atBadorgan, 
in Anglesea, and Osmaston Manor, near Derby, and 
probably in many other places; yet it is not carried into 
