August 18. 
TILE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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unfortunately consumed by fire some two or three years 
ago. In rebuilding it, it was thought advisable to re¬ 
move the kitchen-gardens, vineries. See. ; and this, so 
far as the gardens are concerned, is an advantageous 
I change. The site chosen is considerably elevated, with 
j a S 0 _°d, deep, open soil. There are three vineries of 
j considerable extent. This summer the Vines were 
planted, the border having been properly prepared, and 
j well-drained. The Vines had been started in pots, and 
J had made shoots. They were carefully planted; the 
j balls at as far a distance from the front wall as the old 
shoots would allow. These were buried three or four 
inches deep in the border, for the purpose of emitting 
: roots from the joints. All this care was taken, and a 
I good watering given, yet the Vines have not grown 
satisfactorily, and I cannot satisfy myself why they 
have not done so. In order to prevent the heavy 
plashing rains from falling upon the border, a four-inch 
wall has been built next the border, and three inches 
from the front wall of the houses, leaving a cavity that 
width, all the length. The stems of the Vines necessarily 
have to cross this cavity before entering the houses, 
and that portion of the stem is exposed to a constant 
cold current of air. This may be the cause why the 
lines have not grown as well as they ought. I advised 
the filling-up this cavity with pebbly gravel, and the 
stems to be covered with it also. I trust they will now 
improve in growth. I mention this peculiar case of 
failure in Vine-culture, for the purpose of asking any 
practical readers of The Cottage Gardener if such a 
case ever came under their notice, and I should be 
much obliged it my friend, Mr. Errington, would give 
his opinion as to the cause why these Vines have not 
grown properly. The new mansion is a fine building 
of Yorkshire stone, and is nearly finished. The intended 
pleasure-grounds around it are as yet covered with the 
debris from the building materials ; but there is a fine 
space for a flower-garden, rosary, American garden, and 
a conservatory, which I shall hope to see all laid out 
judiciously by the time I may visit this finely-situated 
place next year. 
; ^ Woodlesford House, the residence of Mrs. Bentley. 
This pretty villa is just one mile from the preceding—I 
visited it the same day. There is a Vine-wall here 
i sixty-nine feet long, and eleven feet high. It is covered 
j the whole length with one ^ ine. The gardener in- 
j formed me there are 350 bunches of grapes upon it, and 
j in order to ripen them and the wood for the succeeding 
j years, a glass front has been erected, something similar 
| to those I mentioned at Trentham. I was told they 
ripened well, and averaged nearly a pound weight each 
bunch. No artificial heat is used—the heat of the sun 
ouly being found sufficient to ripen the fruit. The tree 
was perfectly healthy, foliage large, and of a good colour. 
; Of course, the grapes do not ripen till late, but then 
they hang on the tree for a long season, and supply the 
family with grapes all through the winter. Now that 
glass is cheap, I expect wo shall shortly see most of our 
fruit-walls covered with it to protect the early blossoms, 
and ripen the wood in the autumn. 
Mrs. Bentley is a judicious lover of flowers, and has 
a good collection of Carnations, Pieotees, Pansies, and 
Pinks. The ground before one front of the house is laid 
| out in beds cut out on the turf. Here were masses of 
j scarlet Geraniums, Verbenas, Petunias, Calceolarias, 
| &c. Ono large bed was planted with the old common 
China, or as it is commonly called, the Monthly Rose ; 
! and it was completely covered with flowers of a much 
j higher colour than usual. I am quite certain this is a 
desirable and useful plant for the bedding-out system. 
I was delighted with it, and almost longed that my 
j friend Beaton had been with me to join in my admira¬ 
tion. L never saw so effective a bed of flowers. In 
another part of the grounds, I met with a considerable 
hollow, the sides of which have been formed into a 
rockery, and with good elfect. ft is a cool, glen-like 
retreat, and there are the usual Alpine plants occupying 
the interstices between the fissures of the rocks. Several 
Saxifrages and Sedums were in good bloom. 
Jn the kitchen garden a new kind of Celery was 
pointed’out to me, and the name given was Jackson’s 
Solid Red. It was the finest Celery I have seen on my 
journey. 
Middleton IIall, the seat of T. Embleton, Esq.— 
This place is about five mile's south of Leeds. Here I 
was gratified to find a tolerable collection of Orchids 
thriving well, but sadly crowded. There is, however, a 
new house erecting to give more space for them. I 
noted a nice plant of Aerides crispum. This species, as 
is well known, does not branch out freely, and, to cause 
it to do so, the gardener here bent the plant down, and 
has succeeded in inducing it to throw up a young shoot 
from the bottom, which has attained now some four or 
five leaves. A hint to the wise is enough; this is a 
notch to be added to the culture of Aerides. 
Against the back wall of a stove house there is a 
large specimen of the Night-blowing Cereus, or Cactus. 
It had grown several years, and did not flower. To 
induce it either to grow better or flower, a wire trellis 
was affixed to the wall, and behind it was stuffed a 
layer of moss: during the summer this was frequently 
syringed. The consequence of this treatment was, the 
Cereus threw out roots among the moss, which caused it 
to grow strong. In the winter following the water was 
withheld, to give it a degree of rest, which had the 
effect of causing these strong shoots to show flower the 
summer following; and it has flowered freely every year 
since this plan was adopted. On one part of the plant, 
a branch of the pretty Cereus Jlagyeliforme has been 
grafted, and trained to the moss likewise. It has grown 
rapidly and strongly, and flowers most abundantly. 
This plan is a good one for both species, and might be 
practised with many other species of the tribe. Grown 
m pots, in the shade, here is a fine collection of Lyco- 
pods in the highest health and luxuriance. I noted, 
especially, a fine specimen of that beautiful species, the 
Lycopodium lapidopliyllum. It was the finest plant I 
ever saw, measuring full five inches in diameter—a large 
size for .the tiniest of all Lycopodiums. 
T. Appleby. 
(To be continued.) 
ROSE CULTURE. 
( Continued from page 30(1.) 
Pruning.- —Having given our readers, to the best of 
our knowledge, the characteristics by which the various 
classes of Roses may be distinguished, I shall, in this 
paper, give instruction how to prune them. This ope¬ 
ration is an important one, inasmuch, that if the pruning 
is improperly performed, or at the wrong season, the 
plant will not produce flowers so abundantly, and, in 
some instances, not at all. In order that the pruning of 
the Rose in every class may be perfectly understood, i 
shall run through the classes as I have already given 
them, and for this reason, that some of the classes 
required different modes of pruning, and a different 
season, in some cases, for the operation. 
Class L.— Rosa Gallica .—The whole of this class 
should be pruned in early spring. If any of them 
produce a strong shoot during the summer, that is evi¬ 
dently robbing the rest of their due share of strength, 
it should be cut out entirely, even during that season, 
in order to divide equally, amongst the rest of the 
branches, the support the roots have drawn from the 
soil lor that purpose. Towards the end of Eebruary, or 
