THE GARDENING WORLD 
823 
August 27, 1898. 
impossible to free the plant from the mealy bug 
otherwise. Fumigation is no use, and liquid insec¬ 
ticides will not penetrate the net work of fine leaves. 
The only thing therefore is to cut the dirty growths 
away and have a fresh start. Keep the plant a little 
drier at the root after it is cut back until the young 
growths show. 
Peas,— Mearns .—The Peas have got mildew badly. 
You can do nothing except see that the plants get all 
the nourishment possible, and that during periods of 
drought they do not suffer from lack of water. 
GORING HALL GARDENS. 
The accompanying illustration shows a view in the 
well-kept garden of Major Lyon, Goring Hall, near 
Worthing, Sussex. The close-mown green sward 
has numerous large beds distributed in suitable 
situations over it. A bold display of herbaceous 
plants occupies a border on the left, many of the 
ALLINGTON NURSERIES. 
Altogether the Royal Nurseries, Maidstone, run 
to something like 310 acres, including the nurseries 
proper and the seed farm, besides 66 glasshouses, 
chiefly in the town of Maidstone itself. Messrs. 
George Bunyard & Co. are known to our readers 
chiefly as pomologists or fruit growers, but they 
really transact a general nursery business, as we 
shall endeavour to show. Their seed business is 
also growing, and they grow the seeds of their own 
specialities themselves. 
The London, Chatham and Dover Railway runs 
alongside of their Allington Nurseries, where the 
thousands of hardy fruit trees are raised to be dis¬ 
seminated broadcast all over the country. Every 
convenience for alighting at this spot is afforded by 
the station at Barming, for the visitor has only to 
cross the line to find himself in the midst of the 
trees which bear the far-famed Kentish fruit, par¬ 
ticularly Apples. The Allington Nurseries are about 
preventing the loss of moisture through evaporation. 
This is one of the great secrets of success, and an 
example that might well be followed by every fruit 
grower. 
Medlars, Plums, Cherries, Peaches, Apricots. 
We saw so many useful things and samples of good 
culture that we must necessarily be brief, so as to 
cover the wide field as we hurredly paced it. We 
first came upon a plantation of Medlars, grafted on 
the White Thorn, and observed two-year-old trees 
fruiting, as a result of two successive dry summers. 
Usually they take three or four summers before they 
commence bearing. The red and yellow fruited 
varieties of the Myrobalan Plum are the favourite 
stocks for standards. There are 30,000 trees of the 
wild Mazard used as stocks for Cherry trees. There 
are also Plum stocks and the thorny wild Pear stock, 
and all of the above stocks have made excellent 
growth. 
A collection of Japanese Plums, which have been 
E. Edwards.] 
Goring Hall Gardens. 
[Excelsior Studio, New Street, Worthing. 
June and July subjects being in bloom at the time 
the photograph was taken. Araucarias, Cedars and 
deciduous trees, which shelter the garden, and some 
of the glasshouses, may be noted over the top of the 
well-kept hedges. The general upkeep of the place 
does great credit to Mr. W. Greenyer, the gardener. 
The photograph from which the illustration was 
taken and lent us by Mr. Ed. Owen Greening, was 
sent to the "One and All" flower show photo¬ 
graphic competition, in connection with the National 
Co-operative Show at the Crystal Palace, an account 
of which we give on another page. Prizes have 
been offered for photographs of gardens, large and 
small, garden and sylvan scenery, window boxes, &c., 
for the last three years by the "One and All” 
association, and the recent exhibition of photographs 
was the largest that has yet been got together, so 
that this competition has now become a well- 
established and important section of the great 
annual show. 
i£ miles out of town, and lie on rising ground com¬ 
manding a fine prospect of the North Downs on the 
other side of the valley, with corn, Hop fields and 
orchards spread out like a panorama before the eye. 
The soil here is a rich sandy loam, overlying the 
Kentish rag, and that it is rich one has only to look 
upon the cornfields, which, however, aie well 
farmed. It was a burning hot day on the occasion 
of our visit, but the splendid breeze made us equal 
to the occasion of tramping over the wide acres 
without the slightest sensation of fatigue. 
In spite of the heat and drought, the fruit trees 
have made excellent growth, though none of them 
are mulched, while watering is entirely out of the 
question. The ground beneath the trees is bare and 
clear of weeds, for an Exmoor pony is kept at work, 
and nimbly but patiently steps over the ground up 
one row and down the other, dragging a kind of 
five-toothed hoe or cultivator, which scarifies the 
surface and keeps it loose, killing the weeds and 
creating a considerable amount of discussion in 
America, has been got together here, and amongst 
them we noted Prunus Maine and P. Satsuma, both 
belonging to the same section as the Myrobalan. 
We may here mention that Burbank’s novelties have 
found their way here, including Giant Prune, Apple, 
America, Chaleo, Wickson, and the Burbank Plum. 
The fruit of the latter is about the size and shape of 
Monarch, and when approaching maturity becomes 
first clear, sub transparent jellow, then overlaid 
with pale to deep rosy-purple. The flesh is yellow, 
flavoured like an Aprioot and very pleasant. It is 
very distinct in its way, and from all appearances 
will be a great acquisition for orchard house culture. 
It also does well at Margate in the neighbourhood of 
the sea, and should also prove hardy in the south 
and west of England. 
Elsewhere we came across a fine plantation of the 
well-known Plum, Monarch, in maiden trees that 
have made growths 3 ft. to 5 ft. high, and propor- 
