October 24, 1903. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
891 
Kinnell, Auchmore. 
Kinnell is one of the properties of the Most Noble the 
Marquis, of Breadalbane, K.G., and is situated close to the 
village of Kill in, Perthshire, a, very romantic spot at the south¬ 
west end of Loch T'ay, and in being situated in a, valley is 
everywhere surrounded by high hills and mountains. The 
garden,, however, being situated at a low elevation, about 
400 ft. above the sea level, it is possible to grow both useful 
and interesting subjects in this Highland glen. 
The Plant Houses. 
About the middle of September we had the pleasure of 
being conducted through the gardens 1 and houses by the gar¬ 
dener, Mr. John Cant, who has had charge of 
the: gardens for the past twenty-eight years. 
Two houses were devoted to Melons, from which 
he commenced to cut, fruit early in September. 
Those in the late house were about half grown. 
In the Cucumber house: there had been a heavy 
crop all the season. The back and one end of 
this house was covered with wire, so: that plants 
and creepers could be grown to cover the same, 
including such things as varieties of Begonia 
Ilex, Tradescantias, Nepeta, Gleclioma, variegata, 
etc. On the staging of this house advantage 
had been taken of the space to grow such Ferns 
as Lonraria and Nephrolepis, of which there 
were large and healthy specimens. Foliage 
plants included Phyllanthus nivosus and P. an- 
gustifolius, the latter by no means a common 
plant in private establishments. 
In another house were two, grand specimens 
of Davallia Tyermannii in first-class condition. 
On the back wall of this house were several 
varieties of double zonal Pelargoniums about 
10 ft. high and flowering freely, although we 
have seen, them more floriferous in spring. 
For some time past a considerable amount of 
discussion has been going on about the produc¬ 
tion of blue Hydrangeas. A curious case of 
their turning blue occurred here: during the past 
summer. Last year a,bout a dozen large plants 
of the 1 common, Hydrangea, were planted out in 
the open border to be out of the way. In the 
autumn they were lifted and potted up. When 
they flowered during the summer of the present 
year all were of a decided blue except one, and 
the normally white one, Dr. Hogg, which re¬ 
tained its white flowers as, usual. It is im¬ 
possible to state what caused these plants to 
develop blue flowers, but we may here state 
that they were planted out of the greenhouse in 
June, and had the misfortune to have their 
foliage cut down by frost in that month. We 
have no desire to lead anyone to infer that they 
became blue owing to this accident, but either 
the soil in, which they were planted or the fact 
of their being planted out and then repotted in the, autumn 
may have had something to do- with the occurrence. 
The roof of the greenhouse is covered with climbing Roses, 
and many of them were flowering freely on the occasion of our 
visit. The varieties consisted of Marechal Niel, Gloire de 
Dijon, Adam, and Devoniensis. Adam is a, veiy old variety 
not often seen, in cultivation, considering its beauty. The rosy 
pink flowers are of fine form and very handsome. It, has been 
thriving here for the last twenty years. During the past 
season Devoniensis produced a dozen flowers in one cluster. 
All of them were very healthy and still flowering splendidly on 
the above date. Fine plants of Asparagus, Sprengeri are also 
grown in this house. A fine strain of Streptoca.rpus was also, 
located here, carrying blue, pink, purple, white, mauve, and 
violet flowers. Several varieties of Tom at os are grown, in¬ 
cluding Frogmore, Stirling Castle, Golden Queen, and Orange- 
field. The latter is a large-ribbed red variety that never fails 
to produce a heavy crop, and is grown here for cooking pur¬ 
poses. 
The Kinnell Vine. 
Undoubtedly the most interesting and most remarkable 
plant on thei establishment is, the big Vine, which is probably 
the largest and most regularly kept Vine in the country. 
Like all the rest of the big Vines, the variety is Black Ham¬ 
burgh. It was planted in 1832, and fills, a whole house, which 
has been doubled in size for the accommodation of the Vine 
since first planted. It rises with a single trunk for a height 
of 6 ft,., at which point it branches into two main arms, each 
going to the far end of the house, the Vine being planted in 
the middle. At a, foot from the ground the trunk measures 
28 in. in circumference, and at 6 ft. it measures 23 in. 
The house is 171 ft. long by 25 ft. wide, and has about 475 
square yards, of glazed surface. The average weight of each 
bunch of fruit allowed to come to, maturity is, from If lb. to 
2 lb., but we noted some shapely bunches, that weighed over 
4 lb., and some that had been cut weighed 4 lb. 3 oz. On 
each of the two main arms,, which are trained horizontally 
along the eaves of the roof are straight rods that run to the 
top of the house like ordinary Vine rods,, as usually seen. 
The arms each bear about three dozen rods, making a total 
of seventy-two upon the Vine. 
The big bunches are obtained from the young rods, which 
are trained up from time to time by the cutting away of old 
rods in order to allow the production of young ones. The 
ends of these young rods are allowed to grow as much as 
Anemone sulphurea : Flowers sulphur yellow. 
