. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ng to son, where a magnificent wall-tree of thevariety Negro Largo is the best in the neighbour- 2 inches high in frames, and are already throughthe soil in the open garden, as also are BroadBeans. Spring Cabbages appear very promising,and Cauliflower plants under hand-lights are in aforward condition for transplanting when theseason is a little further advanced. There are numerous Peach-trees under glass,two houses with hijj-shaped roofs having a lengthof nearly 200 feet. One house of 120
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ng to son, where a magnificent wall-tree of thevariety Negro Largo is the best in the neighbour- 2 inches high in frames, and are already throughthe soil in the open garden, as also are BroadBeans. Spring Cabbages appear very promising,and Cauliflower plants under hand-lights are in aforward condition for transplanting when theseason is a little further advanced. There are numerous Peach-trees under glass,two houses with hijj-shaped roofs having a lengthof nearly 200 feet. One house of 120 feet lengthis provided with means of heating, and the otheris not. All the best varieties of Peaches andNectarines are cultivated in these houses, andthe trees are excellent specimens of goodtraining; the crops observed upon them fromtime to time have been abundant. Not-withstanding this, very heavy crops of Tomatosare obtained from the same houses fromplants put into the borders and trained as hori-zontal cordons. The earliest Peaches are inanother lean-to house, which, being in two divi-. FlG. 34.—GARDENEUS COTTAGE COVERED WITH WISTARIA AT COBHAM PARK. Giood, although standard Fig-trees in the openare common there. The kitchen garden plots atCobham are for the most part surrounded by•espalier fruit-trees, and though some of these are?aged, such specimens are being gradually removed-and young trees of the best varieties planted in??their stead. There is an orchard on rather?iiigher ground than that of the garden, so thataltogether the garden and orchard supply ample•crops of hardy fruits. Kitchen-garden produce,being of great importance, is given close study,sand such crops of Onions, Asparagus, variousBrassicas, ic, as were obtained last season wereithe result of an intelligent use of manures, inwlhich animal and chemical manures wereemployed. Early forcing of vegetables is carried•out here as thoroughly as in most places, for atChristmas there were supplies of new Po
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