June 17, 1893. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
661 
their beautitul growth most pleasing. The pictorial 
trees, deciduous and evergreen, have a delightfully 
fresh and bright appearance, and a walk along any 
of the main drives through the nursery brings some 
beautiful object into view at every step. It is a cold 
place in winter, and well tests the hardiness of any 
an extensive collection of named varieties, though 
Hodgin's variety, Golden Queen and the old silver 
variegated are grown in the largest numbers. Azalea 
Mollis is also very extensively grown in named 
varieties and mixed seedlings to meet the growing 
demand for plants for forcing. Roses also are done 
propagation and training of fruit trees, of which some 
sixty-five acres are under cultivation. Of one sort 
and another, from 50,000 to 55,000 fruit trees will be 
under training this year, necessitating the use of 
some 200 tons weight of stakes, of which bamboo 
canes form the greater proportion, these being found 
plants put out. Among the variegated Conifers we 
noted Thuja occidentalis lutea, very bright in colour. 
This is a very fine Conifer and thoroughly hardy. 
The Rhododendron quarters, some ten or fifteen acres 
in extent, have carried a grand head of bloom, afford¬ 
ing proof, if any were now wanted, that peat is not 
essential to their cultivation, and that they will do 
well in any loam that does not contain lime. Hollies 
■ also do splendidly here, and the company has quite 
extensively and well, especially as dwarfs on the 
seedling brier and brier cutting. Among Conifers 
the Company are going in extensively for Abies 
Douglasii, a plant that has never been cheap, and of 
which they will have some 80,000 to 100,000 to sell 
at a reasonable price during the coming season. 
The Hoole Nursery is close to the Royal Agricul¬ 
tural Society's show-yard, situated about a mile from 
the station, and is almost exclusively devoted to the 
the most economical Apples, of course, are grown 
in the largest numbers. Plums coming next, and the 
stock is singularly clean and free in growth. A 
piece of 70,000 Apples, budded last year, is a picture 
to the eye of a “knifeman,” and another field con¬ 
taining 130,000 maidens as well illustrates as any¬ 
thing else the skilful manner in which fruit tree pro¬ 
pagation is manipulated, the growths being beauti¬ 
fully clean, regular, and healthy, Gooseberries are 
