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gians at Lacken, in the Duc d’Aremberg’s seat at Enghien, and that of 
Sir Henry T. Oakes near Tournay. The nurseries of Holland are celebrated 
for their fruit trees, and those of the Netherlands for their magnolias and 
azaleas, and other peat-earth trees and shrubs. That of M. Parmentier at 
Enghien has long been remarkable for containing a great mauy species in a 
very limited space; and that of M. le Candele at Humbeque, near Brussels, 
contains the best collection of the genus Cratz‘gus in the Low Countries. 
Some account of this nursery, with notices of its more remarkable trees, will 
be found in the Gardener’s Magazine, vol. xi. p. 537. 
_ In the garden at Lacken there are a few fine specimens of foreign trees, 
particularly a tulip tree, which Mr. M‘Intosh, the head gardener to the King 
of the Belgians, informs us, had, in 1834, a clear stem of 20 ft., the diameter 
of which at the surface of the ground was fully 3 ft., and at the height of 20 ft. 
about 2 ft.; the head was globular and compact. This tree flowered and ripened 
seeds every year. When Lacken belonged to France, the palace was oc- 
cupied by the Empress Josephine, who brought her gardener from Paris to 
superintend the gardens; and the poor man, while he was gathering the seeds 
of this tulip tree, fell from it, and broke his neck. The trees and shrubs in 
the Brussels Botanic Garden have been planted within the last fifteen years: 
those in the Ghent Botanic Garden are much older; among them is a Populus 
canadénsis, 100 ft. high, and upwards of 17 ft. in circumference at 1 ft. from 
the ground. There are,a Robinia Pseud-Acacia, 60 ft. high ; a Catdlpa syringe- 
folia, with a trunk between 8 ft. and 9 ft. in circumference ; Vibarnum O’‘pulus, 
22 ft. high; two tulip trees, 70 ft. high; a Salisburia, 23 ft. high; Gymn6- 
cladus, 70 ft. high ; lime trees, 60 ft high ; and Magnolia auriculita, conspfcua, 
and tripétala, from 20 ft.to 25 ft. high. In the grounds of Mr. Herry of 
Mariakirk is a Catd/pa, 40 ft. high, with a trunk 6 ft. in circumference at 1 ft. 
from the ground. In the grounds of Baron le Norman, near the same town, 
there are, an Ai/dntus (there called the Virginian sumach), 30 years planted, 
and 45 ft. high ; and a Juniperus virginiana, 40 years planted, and 30 ft. high. 
The largest salisburia in Holland is in the botanic garden at Utrecht, its 
height being nearly 50 ft. 
In consequence of the present unfriendly feeling between Holland and Bel- 
gium, we have been unable to procure notices of the trees and shrubs of the 
more remarkable places of either country. We know, however, that there are 
many fine specimens, and that though the winters are colder than those of 
England, yet that the summers are warmer, and that the greater part of the 
deciduous American trees and shrubs thrive there as well as in England. 
Many of the finest azaleas in our nurseries, and some varieties of magnolia and 
rhododendron, have been raised from seed in the neighbourhood of Ghent. 
The winters, however, are unfavourable for evergreens, and but few of these 
are to be found in any part of the country. In Smith’s Tour on the Continent, 
Neill’s Horticultural Tour, and in various articles in the Gardener’s Magazine, 
will be found descriptive sketches of many of the small gardens of Holland 
and the Netherlands, all more or less remarkable for their American trees and 
shrubs. Of large places which may be compared with the country seats of 
England, and which might be supposed to afford many examples of fine old 
trees, there are comparatively few, as has been already observed above by a 
correspondent, a native of the country. 
Sect. III. Qf the Indigenous and Foreign Trees and Shrubs of 
Germany, including Hungary. 
Tuovucn this portion of Europe is of great extent, yet its ligneous flora is 
much less varied and numerous than that of France. The reasons are, that 
it extends in longitude more than in latitude; that it contains few very lofty 
mountains, and embraces but a small latitudinal portion of the sea shore. It 
includes Hungary, however, which enjoys a greatly diversified surface, and an 
extensive range of mountains, with a ligneous flora which has furnished some 
