August 29, 1896. 
831 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
Nectarines out of doors. —Oh yes, Amateur. 
Nectarines may be grown out of doors just as well as 
Peaches. A south wall will be the best place for 
them. In your locality, Reading, they should do 
well. 
THE NURSERIES, BATH. 
Just as the great heat and drought of the summer 
season gave place to cooler and more changeable 
weather at the end of July, we paid a flying visit to 
the nurseries of Messrs. Geo. Cooling & Sons, Bath, 
The only one thing we regretted, was that we had 
not paid the visit earlier in the season when the 
garden Roses, of which we have seen so much at the 
■shows in June and July, were in the height of their 
glory. The plants were there all the same, some 
were still in bloom, and we noted various other 
things, besides. Messrs. Cooling have several 
nurseries, but we had only time to visit that at 
Batheaston. 
The Houses. 
Near the principal end of the nurseries we entered a 
Cucumber house, 6o ft. long, in company with Mr. 
Nash, the courteous manager. The house was a 
span-roofed structure of no great height, and was en¬ 
tirely occupied with the improved Telegraph ' for 
seed. The crop was enormous, and the fruits, 
developed in succession from the base to the apex of 
the plants, measured 18 in. to 20 in. each. The 
plants occupied a shallow bed of soil on the top of 
thick slate benches on either side of the house. 
There is a great demand amongst market growers 
and others for the seed. Besides this house, there 
Rose Lawrence Allen, 
were nine frames 6n the sloping terraces of this part 
of the nursery, all occupied with the same variety, 
and marked by the same productive nature. The 
frames all slope to the south-east and receive all the 
advantage of the sun's rays, besides the heat of the 
beds of manure on which the frames are stood. 
Two lights were occupied with Melon Bishop's 
Favourite. There was a heavy crop of dark green 
fruits just becoming netted, and each weighing 4 lbs. 
to 5 lbs, 
A houseful of young vines in pots next arrested 
our attention. The rods were of various sizes 
according to age, and included good rods of Black 
Hamburgh, Muscats, Alicante, Foster’s Seedling, 
Gros Maroc, Buckland's Sweet Water and others. 
From here we entered a house of Marechal Niel 
Rose, planted out and in the pink of health. This 
and all the other houses are each 60 ft. long. Close 
by was the fernery mostly occupied with Adiantum 
cuneatum for cutting, The orchid house was 
occupied with Cattleya gaskelliana, Laelia digbyana, 
in bloom, Brassavolas, Dendrobiums, Cypripediums, 
Phalaenopses, the latter of which do well here. 
Stove plants may also be seen in the same house, 
including Caladiums, Acalyphas, Asparagus decum- 
bens, and seedlings of it, as well as seedlings of 
Myrsiphyllum popularly known as Smilax, The 
seed was ripened on plants out of doors, Useful 
decorative subjects included Carex elegantissima, C. 
argentea, Eulalia japonica variegata, and Panicum 
variegatum, all variegated. 
Clematis in great numbers and variety occapied 
the larger portion of one house, where they were 
being grafted and grown to some size, preparatory to 
being placed outside. The varieties included Jack- 
