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fORKIGN NO'lICHS. 



preventing long drouths, by bringing about season- 

 able rains, thereby romlcring (he earth more pro- 

 ductive! We hope tliis new French weather phi- 

 losopher, \vlio. we are lolil, is an '• ancien chef li'- 

 elablissenient ilMnstr'iction,"' will jirove more suc- 

 cessful as a storm king, than our Phokkssor Espy. 

 In the same journal is slated an interesting fact, 

 regariiing the culture and manufacture of the Sugar 

 Beet, — at present so important a matter in France. 

 A sugar house recently established in Gallicia, has 

 manufactured the past year, lo, 000, 000 kilogram- 

 mes of sugar, antl the ojiinion is given, that such is 

 the progress maile in tiiis manufacture, that, in a 

 few years more, no foreign sugars will be needed, 

 at least in France. It has been found, that by liry- 

 ing the beet root, at that stage when it contains 

 most sugar, it may be preserved without any sac- 

 charine loss for years; the sugar may then be ex- 

 tracled at leisure, anil at much less cost. The small 

 cultivators can cut up their beet roots into slices 

 and threads, dry them, and keep them in a store 

 room or granary, ami not be obliged to carry them 

 to the manufactory till most convenient to them- 

 selves. The remains ol the dried Beet root, after 

 the sugar is taken from it, is eaten by animals al- 

 most as greedily as though it had not been dried 

 beforehand. 



music at Ilerlin, when the people form theautli- 

 tory, and the musicians are in the open air. At 

 half-past nine in the evening every body has re- 

 lumed home." 



The Winter Gardens of Berlin. — The fol- 

 lowing brief account of the celebrated Public Gar- 

 dens of Berlin, is translated from the Journal des 

 Debates, by the Boston Daily Advertiser. How- 

 much of hearty health and enjoyment might be re- 

 alized through public gardens in our large cities, 

 by a small annual contribution from all the proper- 

 ty holders. — Ed. 



''There exist at Berlin vast places of assembling, 

 called, according to the season. Winter Garilens. or 

 Summer Gardens. Fifteen hundretl persons meet 

 there, either under the shade of trees, or in im- 

 mense halls adorned with flowers and shrubs. These 

 crowils meet without tumult and enjoy pleasure 

 without noise, without scandal, and without police 

 officers. All the citizens of Berlin congregate there. 

 Mothers come there with their daughters, and 

 embroider, talk, knit and sip their coffee. Often 

 the whole household sups there. The men, who 

 are all uncovercti, some smoking, others drinking 

 beer from immense glasses, which hold more than 

 a fourth of a bottle. Orchestras occupy a point of 

 the hall; each establishment has its own ; they are 

 led by directors, who, baton in hand, rival each 

 other in talent and glory. Listen — harmony, pre- 

 cision, common qualities, power, docility, expres- 

 sion, richness, artistical nerve, profound sentiment, 

 unconquerable energy, enthusiasm, exaltation, 

 every thing is found in these orchestras. The har- 

 mony which they give out, flies, bursts forth, tri- 

 umphs and escai)es, returns, roars like the tempest, 

 moans like the gentlest breeze, moves like a 

 plaintive sigh, bursts out at last, is lost in a myste- 

 rious distance. The crowd, attentive, mute, mo- 

 tionless, still continues to listen, as if retaining, 

 tasting its impressions. Then their transports are 

 expressed, but with silence ; the master bows — 

 they would have understood each other without 

 these marks of intelligence. This is the effect of ' 



Constantinople, Oct. 26, 1S4G. — The orna- 

 mental Gardens are either within the town and 

 suburbs, or behind the imperial or private palaces 

 along the shores of the Bosphorus, anil many of the 

 latter extending to the brow of the hills behind 

 the houses. The true Turkish gardens, taking as 

 models those of the Seraglio, which are well kept 

 up, and of some other Turkish palaces — are in some 

 respects rather yards than what we should call 

 gardens, being individually of no great extent, rec- 

 tangular, and surrounded by walls or buildings; a 

 kind of green-house often occupies one side for 

 putting the oranges and other tender shrubs into in 

 winter, and the other walls often covered with 

 creepers, very frequently the Virginian creej)er, 

 two or three Jessamines, Tecomas, Stc. ; the area 

 is divided into a great number of little beds sym- 

 metrically arranged, though often of fanciful 

 shapes, edged with Box, and each containing a few 

 plants, generally old and common things, but in 

 the best gardens so contrived as to have as many 

 as possible always in flower. Those now showing 

 forth are chiefly Dahlias, African Marigolds, and 

 common China Roses. Along the principal walks 

 are often taller shrubs or fruit trees trimmed to as 

 narrovv a pyramidical form as possible. The walks 

 are either a kind of gravel composed chiefly of 

 broken shells, like what was laid ilown a few years 

 since in St. James's Park, or paved with pebble 

 stones in diamond-shaped patterns. Yet, however 

 confined and crowded these gardens may be (I have 

 seen many with the walks and beds scarcely 18 

 inches broad,) they are many of them so neatly 

 kept, and the plants so vigorous and full of flower, 

 owing to the fine climate and good care in water- 

 ing, as to have a very pretty eflect. In one of the 

 Seraglio gardens, the walks are paved with flag 

 stones instead of pebbles, and the'beds edged with 

 thin stones placed on edge, and yet it looked as 

 green and as gay as any. I cannot but think that 

 the paving the walks is verv beneficial under a hot 

 sun, as it i)rcvcnts the roots from burning, anil the 

 ground from caking after being watered. Like the 

 vineyard in the neighborhood of Montpelier, 

 which the owner paved with flag-stones, and pot 

 beautiful crops, till his neighbors laughed him 

 out of persisting in a practice unknown to their 

 ancestors. 



The garden or the palace of Tcheragan, on the 

 Bosphorus, where the Sultan at present resides, is 

 said to be the most beautiful here, and is under the 

 management of a German now absent. I have 

 been disappointed in the hojjcs that were given 

 me of going over it; but from what I hear, and 

 from what one can see looking in at the gates from 

 the Bosphorus, it appears to be a combination of 

 the Turkish and modern European garden. The 

 front of the palace, though only of wood (as almost 

 all the palaces,) is the richest and most elegant 

 thing of the kind I have seen, and in the flat be- 

 hind appears to be a formal garden, full of small 

 beds, shrubs, flowering plants, &.C.; with fountains 



