Febbuabt 15 , 1913 . 
119 
THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
wealth of evergreen shrubs in the Hart- 
pury gardens. 
Lavender and Herbaceous 
Borders. 
To reach the kitchen garden from the 
mansion you pass along a broad walk, 
f>assing on the way the wall of the stables, 
on which you notice some very large fig 
trees, annually giving good crops of 
fruit, and are much prized by Mr. and 
.Mrs. (lordon-Canning. A grand old Wis¬ 
taria sinensis has wandered far on the wall, 
and a Banksian rose hard by is a pretty 
-ight at the end of May. You notice good 
plants of Homneya Coulteri as you pass 
along, and a herbaceous border filled with 
f^inspkiious clumps of choice plants. In 
order to reach the kitchen garden you must 
cross a drive, and through an iron gate, 
leaving the Queen Charlotte walk, with its 
“ Lavender sweet, your soft grey flowers, 
Bring to our memory rest from cares; 
Bid us hope that the simlight hours. 
May throw shadows of love in the coming 
years.” 
Fruit and Kitchen Gardens. 
Inside the enclosure, where fruit and 
vegetables are grown, the glass structures 
are located, and perhaps the chief feature 
here is tlie up-to-date collection of 
perpetual-flowering carnations, and the 
plants are grown remarkably well, for the 
carnations is one of Mrs. Gordon-Canning’s 
favourite flowers. Another is the violet, 
and in their season frames near at hand 
are filled with plants that never fail to 
bloom freely. There are plant-houses and 
forcing pits, vineries and peach houses to 
provide the needs of the establishment, and 
in final reference to flowers let me add 
that Mr. Prentice is no mean expert in 
the champion silver cup for the highest 
number of points gained at the Glou¬ 
cester Root, Fruit, and Grain Society, 
and last autumn he exliibited a very credi¬ 
table display of apples and pears at one 
of the R.H.S. meetings at Vmcent Square. 
It only remains to be said that Mr. and 
Mrs. Gordon-Canning, whose charming es- 
the AVest Country, think also of the wel¬ 
fare of their workpeople and those about 
them, for a cricket club is maintained on 
the estate, with tea for the players on 
match days; a reading-room is provided 
for the use of the villagers, and many other 
acts of generosity might be record^. In 
short, the whole atmosphere of Hartpuiy 
is suggestive of a mutual imderstanding 
and good feeling between employer and em¬ 
ploy^ and landlord and tenant. 
G. H. Hollingworth. 
VIEAY IN WATER GARDEN, HARTPURY HOUSE. 
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into the v through an ire 
A r^Jfg^teble and fruit d^ar 
seeing “ laveU 
the follfwrnaX « 
«^ing lines are inscribed : 
the culture of sweet peas. In short, the 
head gardener at Hartpury is an all-round 
man, and how he manages to keep the 
household supplied with vegetables from 
the comparatively small kitchen garden at 
his disposal is best knowm to himself; but 
he does it, and manages to get a fe\v speci¬ 
mens for winning prizes wuth at the shows 
as well. 
Gardener and employer have co-operated 
in getting together a choice collection of 
apples and pears, which are mostly grown 
as cordons, three of each variety, and a 
continuous arch of this type of tree over 
one of the walks is not only effective but 
productive. Pyramid and bush trees sur¬ 
round the vegetable quarters, and the idea 
seems to have been to put a fruit tree 
wherever there was room for one. In the 
show arena Hartpury is not unknown, for 
on three occasions Mr. Prentice has won 
Ripening: Strawberries.— As the 
forced fruits change colour remove the 
plants to a lower temperature, dis¬ 
continue liquid manure, and give air 
freely. Plants which are swelling their 
fruits may be given a night tempera¬ 
ture of 60 to 65 degrees; liquid manure, 
weak guano water and soot water, are 
all useful at this stage. Later plants in 
bloom should he kept as near 55 degrees as 
possible. Go over the blooms each day with 
a brush to fertilise them, and remove all 
unnecessary flower spikes, and weak blooms 
from the trusses as early as possible. Thin 
the fruits to about nine on eiach plant, and 
syringe well underneath and above the foli¬ 
age to prevent red spider. The present is a 
good time for those who have little or no 
convenience for very early forcing to intro¬ 
duce the first batch of plants where they 
can be kept near the glass, as they will now 
soon respond and grow freely. —F. Jordan. 
