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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
October 24, 1885. 
APPLES FOR VILLA GARDENS. 
“Nonsense!” I fancy I Rear some one remark 
“ wliy you can buy them far cheaper than you can 
grow them.” True, but when it comes to quality the 
grower turns matters in his favour, and there are many 
fruits that are really only good from the tree, and the 
marketing even spoils their appearance and flavour. 
The culture of these trees is as simple as possible, when 
received from the grower, just shorten all the coarse 
roots, and plant them as recommended, each week in 
the core of Pears. Plant the trees as shallow as pos¬ 
sible, and as firmly as can be done, and to ensure fer¬ 
tility in a limited space, lift, and not prune half the 
trees the third year after planting, and the rest the 
fourth, so that a portion are always established, and 
the result will astonish the operator. 
As in the case of Pears, I would not advise any very 
late Apples, though they keep better stored in an up¬ 
per room than Pears. The whole of the kinds here 
enumerated are suitable for Cordon, Espalier, Bush, or 
pyramidal trees—except where noted—and as the very 
prolific kinds will make but little wood they need not 
be root pruned or lifted. They are all preferable on 
the Paradise stock, getting them budded close to the 
ground if possible, and if set with fruit buds and 
planted before Christmas many would carry a crop the 
first year. 
Cox's Orange Pippin on Paradise Stock. 
Dessert varieties. 
July, August. —Mr. Gladstone, a free bearer; prune 
slightly, as it bears on the points. Devonshire Quarren- 
den, very handsome and fertile. Sugarloaf Pippin, an 
enormous bearer on either stock. 
September, October.— Kerry Pippin, rich flavour 
and fertile. Yellow Ingestrie, a children’s fruit, very 
prolific. Worcester Pearmain, handsome, and good 
when fresh from the tree. 
November, December.— Cox’s Orange Pippin (see 
fig.), the best as a small tree, and for flavour ; several of 
this should be planted. King of Pippins, very prolific. 
Ross Nonpareil, russety and delicious. 
This list may be extended by adding the following 
to come in after Christmas, Adams’ Pearmain, Rein- 
nette du Canada, and Sturmer Pippin. 
Cooking Apples. 
August, September. —Early Julian, yellow, most 
prolific. Duchess of Oldenburg, very handsome and fer¬ 
tile. Lord Suffield, good for a warm place, most useful. 
Cellini Pippin (see fig.), very prolific and handsome. 
October. —Domini, Keswick style, fine. Pott’s 
Seedling, very large and prolific. Grenadier (true), best 
of all the codlins. Stirling Castle, an enormous bearer, 
and as good on the free stock as the Paradise. 
November, December. —New Hawtliornden (sec 
fig.), wonderfully productive, large, and useful. Small’s 
Admirable, a good bearer and keeper. Lord Derby, the 
finest Apple of its class, most prolific. Winter Peach, 
most productive. Warner’s King, the largest and best 
as bush or pyramid. 
January. —Lane’s—Prince Albert, enormous bearer, 
and very fine on either stock. 
Add for very late fruit, Annie Elizabeth, Dutch Mig- 
nonne, and Alfriston.— Geo. Bunyard, Maidstone. 
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TYNINGIIAME. 
Picturesquely situated on an eminence in the midst 
of an extensive and beautifully wooded park, through 
which flows lazily the broad winding waters of the Tyne, 
three miles in a north-easterly direction from Preston- 
kirk and the East Linton station (close by) on the 
Great Northern main line of railway, twenty-one miles 
south of Edinburgh, and one mile westward from the 
German Ocean, is Tyninghame, the commodious baronial 
East Lothian residence of the Earl of Haddington. The 
mansion, in the Tudor style of architecture, with its 
small tapering towers, chimneys, and minarets, presents 
a graceful though imposing outline to the approaching 
visitor, particularly so should he happen to be directing 
his footsteps from the north or south confines of the 
park. It is well sheltered, as it needs to be, from the 
fury of the north and east gales coming from the sea, by 
stately avenues of spreading Beech, &c., of venerable 
growth, and which, together with the plantations and 
fine specimen trees of Oak, Beech, &c., which adorn 
and diversify the outline of a very pleasing landscape, 
harmonizes well with the character of the place, which, 
in a circumscribed space, is rich in a variety of quiet, 
beautiful, and rugged scenery—scenery through which 
I shall now endeavour to take you, my readers, in 
imagination. 
It was my good fortune to be accompanied through 
the pleasant scenes of which I write by the best and 
most interesting of guides, who was not only well versed 
in the geographical position of the place and the names 
and history of the objects of interest within the line of 
vision therefrom, but also possessed a good knowledge 
of trees, wild flowers, and, indeed, everything that is 
beautiful in nature ; so that I shall be the better able 
to explain the objects on the way as they present them¬ 
selves. Proceeding eastward from the vicinity of the 
mansion by way of the “Farm Avenue,” at the top of 
which, on high ground, and within a short distance of 
the said mansion, is situate a lofty obelisk, commemo¬ 
rating the memory of one of the present noble earl’s 
ancestors and predecessors in the title, whence, through 
this grand avenue, composed mostly of Beech, a glimpse 
of the sea (to which it leads from the house), sparkling 
and scintillating in the sunshine, is caught. Proceeding 
in a northerly direction from the “Farm Avenue,” 
which is nearly a mile in length, through a Fir wood, 
I am directed by my companion to look 
“Through opening vales and see hills on hills arise ; 
New objects vary still, and still surprise.” 
Enquiring as to the name of the silvery-foliaged tree 
forming quite a plantation within a few dozen yards of 
the German Ocean, my guide said it was the Sea Buck¬ 
thorn (Hippoplne rhamnoides). The salt spray, with 
which it is frequently washed, has no injurious effect on 
it. It makes a capital shelter, and is one of the few 
trees that will flourish in such close proximity to the 
sea, and the bright orange-coloured berries with which 
the individual Willow-like shoots are studded are very 
effective when contrasted with its’.silvery leaves. A 
little further on, in a north-easterly direction, we reach 
“Whitberry Point,” a kind of promontory, whereon 
has been considerately fixed a large stone double seat, 
haring, as a protection from the wind whichever way 
it listed, a high back or division and two ends of the 
same more durable than comfortable-to-sit-upon ma¬ 
terial. However, on it we rest a while to contemplate 
the surrounding scene. Far below us is the sea, lashing 
itself against the shelving rocks. “There !” said my 
friend, ‘ ‘ see how the water dashes with tremendous fury 
against that jetting rocky prominence in the distance, 
“And how it bubbles and seethes, as it hisses and 
roars, 
And the spray of its wrath to the welkin up-soars. ” 
Having crossed “ Whitberry Point,” we climbed 
“ Ravensheugh. ” From this elevated position pano¬ 
ramic views of great extent and beauty are obtained. 
That, said my guide, is the Bass Rock (at which point 
the waters of the Firth of Forth mingle with those of 
the German Ocean), some two miles out from the land; 
Cellini Pippin on Par.adise Stock. 
and on which, in days gone by, there was a prison, 
supposed to be one of the principal State prisons of 
Scotland ; but now, remarked my kind guide, the Rock 
is the home of “Solan” Geese. About two miles 
round the coast, northward from Ravensheugh, are to 
be seen the ruins of Tantallon Castle, once a strong¬ 
hold of the Douglases. It is built on the very edge of 
the rocks, and though now, as already stated, in ruins 
it was at one time one of the strongest Castles in the 
kingdom. Berwick Law, about three miles from Tan¬ 
tallon, is also a conspicuous object in the distance. On 
a clear day the towns and villages along the coast of 
Fife can also be plainly seen from here (Ravensheugh); 
as also can the Isle of May, about fifteen miles out 
from the land. 
Leaving Ravenshough, we direct our footsteps in the 
direction of Garleton Walk. This being flanked on 
either side in the most natural way by large Rhodo¬ 
dendrons, Laburnums, &c., is a charming walk, one 
mile in length, and leads to Binning Wood, one of the 
finest woods in the county : it was planted in the year 
1707. The trees are 'principally Beech, Oaks, Limes, 
Firs, and other trees are also abundantly represented. 
Making a slight detour westward from Garleton Walk 
we proceed by pleasant and interesting paths to Ivy 
