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out pleasure-grounds, so to plan a charming wood, as that he who 

 is in it shall not know whether he be in a grove or a house. We 

 have on the continent many exquisitely formed gardens, under the 

 name of English ones ; but an English park I have only seen in En- 

 gland. The Botanic Garden at Kew is surrounded by high walls, 

 and intersected into long squares. With regard either to its plan, or 

 its nine or ten stoves, it will not bear a comparison with those of 

 Malmaison, or the Grand Duke of Weimar, of Prince Esterhazy at 

 Eisenstadt, or even with the botanical division of tlie Imperial Garden 

 at Schonbrunn. A Supplement to the Hortns Kewensis, under the 

 inspection of Sir Robert Brown, will soon be published : many species 

 which were formerly cultivated here, are said to be lost. Our 

 countryman, the celebrated flower-painter, Mr. Francis Bauer, with 

 whom I had the honour of being acquainted some years since at Vienna, 

 resides at Kew. I regretted his absence from home when I called 

 to pay my respects to him. 



The garden of the Horticultural Society at Turnham Green, scarcely 

 half an hour's distance from Kew, is of far greater importance to 

 the art of gardening, which is indeed the proper design of the study 

 of botany. This establishment, which is described in the Horticul- 

 tural Transactions, is likely to prove of incalculable advantage to 

 Britain and to all Europe : every branch of Horticulture, except the 

 ornamental, being here pursued to the greatest extent and according 

 to the purest scientific principles ; such as the cultivation of fruits 

 and vegetables, both forced and in the open air ; and of flowers, 

 whether abroad or under glass. No less than thirty-three acres of 

 land are destined to the accomplishment of the necessary experi- 

 ments, surrounded by a lofty wall, and again walled off" into par- 

 titions. By this plan, however, the Society appears to have inten- 

 tionally sacrificed the picturesque. About forty workmen are kept 

 in this Vineyard of the Lord, who are under the superintendence of 

 a very able gardener, Mr. Munro. At present there are five stoves, 

 two of them built after the newest plan, with convex windows, which 

 are found to be highly advantageous. A very large house is to be 

 erected next year, and heated by steam. We of Germany must 

 long want a great advantage which the English possess in their 

 stoves ; namely, the very slender iron frame-work in which the panes 



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