May 15, 1886. 
The gardening world. 
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fine quality of the samples of this much esteemed 
vegetable, which he has been turning out for months 
past; and Beans are to be seen in many of the houses 
we have already passed through. Beans are a speciality 
and they are done well. The sorts most relied upon 
are Negro Long-pod, and Ne Plus Ultra, the latter 
being the greatest favourite ; and the quantity of seed 
used in a season amounts to no less than nine bushels ! 
A similar house to the last named is planted entirely 
with Cucumbers and Beans, the former being the main 
crop, and consisting wholly of Mr. Mclndoe’s Verdant 
Green, just coming into bearing. Mr. Gough stated 
that it was an extraordinary cropper, but for market 
purposes the fruit would be all the better if it tvere a 
Chrysanthemums, 
Of which no less than 115,000 plants are to be grown 
this season, and which, at the time of our visit, had all 
been potted off from the cutting-boxes, and were dis¬ 
tributed among the large number of houses yet to be 
noticed. Chrysanthemums are here a great speciality, 
about 30,000 being grown on this year in pots, and the 
remainder planted out of doors to make their growth, 
and then be lifted and planted in the autumn in the 
immense houses used for Tomatos now. For planting- 
out, Mr. Gough prefers to grow them for a time at first 
in pots, as they are found to lift w r ith better balls in 
the autumn than when planted-out without the roots 
having been submitted to some form of restriction at 
with Melons ; a long Peach-case, 4 ft. wide and 11 ft. 
high, the trees in which have set a tremendous crop ; 
two good houses of strawberries, Sir C. Napier, Sir J. 
Paxton, and La Grosse Sucree, and next proceed to 
The Orchard, 
A somewhat recently enclosed part of the grounds, 
twenty-two acres in extent, and either planted with 
trees or covered with glass, of which there is enough 
already up and designed to shelter a very respectable 
army. The orchard proper promises to be as remarkable 
a feature as the glass in this truly wonderful garden. 
The trees planted in quarters and again in rows, with 
the greatest precision, broad grass walks dividing the 
different [sections, are just getting into the bearing 
Harefield Grove and its Proprietor : Views in the Garden. 
little longer. The next house of the same length as 
the preceding, but somewhat wider, contains Black 
Alicante Grapes, planted inside and showing for a 
splendid crop. Then followed a Tomato-house with 
the plants trained on a trellis under the glass. They 
were carrying a fine crop of fruit at Christmas, have 
yielded some 4,000 cuttings since, and are now in bearing 
again. Next we come to a Melon-house, this time 
planted entirely with Mr. Gough’s seedling, The 
Harefield Grove, a white-fleshed variety with a yellow 
rind, which Mr. B. S. 'Williams sent out last season, 
and which has a first-class market reputation. It 
is a good free setter, and consequently a good anu 
certain cropper, and a free kindly grower. A long 
lean-to pit which we next entered, is filled with a new 
Melon received from Scotland with a strong recommen¬ 
dation, and concerning which we shall doubtless hear 
more anon. Near the cottage before mentioned are a 
couple of small span-roofs, which have been devoted 
to the propagation of 
first. The flowering Season is a long one, commencing 
in autumn with Madame Desgrange, and ending in 
spring w r ith Ethel, Grandiflorum, Princess Teck, and 
Meg Merrilees, &c. Some idea of the value set upon 
the leading varieties may be gained when we state the 
numbers of each grown, which may be set down as 
18,000 of Elaine, 15,000 each of Sceur Melanie, Peter 
the Great, and Mrs. Bundle, 10,000 each of Julia 
Lagravere and Fair Maid of Guernsey, 6,000 of Ethel, 
2.500 of Princess Teck, and 10,000 mixed varieties. 
Summer-flowering sorts also meet with much favour, 
some 4,000 of Madame Desgrange and Mrs. Cullingford 
being cultivated, and for next season Mr. Gough has 
1.500 of the new white Boule de Neige, figured in our 
number for Jan. 9tli last, a sufficient number certainly 
to test its merits. Dismissing the Chrysanthemums for 
the nonce, we must proceed on our tour, and first pass 
through a large span-roofed Peach-house, the standard 
trees in which have seen their best days, and are under¬ 
going renewal; through a long house to be planted 
stage, and for neatness of form, health, and vigour— 
but not the rampant vigour that means all wood and 
no fruit—are all that any man could desire to possess. 
They consist of Apples, Tears, Plums, and Damsons 
(of which there are 8,000), Gooseberries and Currants, 
and a break of 2,500 plants of the new American Black¬ 
berries. To this part of the garden we hope to refer 
again at some future time. Suffice it for the present to 
say that the trees all came from Messrs. B. Smith & 
Co., St. John’s Nurseries, Worcester, and are in every 
way a credit to their renowned establishment. The 
gigantic ranges of houses forming 
The Bemarkable Village of Glass, 
For we can call it nothing else, forms one side of the 
orchard, and for extent puts in the shade anything of 
the kind that we are acquainted with. Proceeding 
through the houses in consecutive order, we note the 
first one as a span 250 ft. long, planted with the Hare¬ 
field Grove Express Cucumber, a black-spined variety 
highly prized for its free-growing and fruitful qualities. 
