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Notice of the Garden of Fromont. 85 
‘These different preparations are employed for the support and 
propagation of a collection of vegetables, (many of which are still 
rare in France,) which amounts already, including those in the open 
air, to more than six thousand species and varieties. The number 
of duplicates raised in pots is constantly kept at about a hundred and 
twenty thousand. The part of the garden devoted to heath plants 
is considered by the best judges as the most complete in the environs 
of Paris. ‘To give an idea of the rapid increase in this department 
alone, it is sufficient to state that there were raised the last year, un- 
er glass frames, forty thousand of the broadleaved Kalmia, and that 
four thousand azaleas are arranged in pots for the grafting of more 
than a hundred and fifty varieties, according to the method of baron 
de Tschaudy. This kind of nursery is protected from the sun and 
the winds by the long palisades of Thurgas, and watered by numer- 
ous furrows; and at the same time that it is happily connected, by 
the prolonged contout of its evergreen mass, with the general scenery 
of the park, it includes within itself very considerable resources, 
of which the nurserymen and florists, both at home and abroad, 
who come hither to furnish themselves with assortments, know how 
10 avail themselves, 
At a time when the scarcity and dearness of wood are more and 
* More sensibly felt; when some writings of distinguished excellence 
ave been published on the necessity and the means of arresting this 
constantly increasing evil; when a benevolent individual has come 
forward to encourage by his writings, his example, and his patriotic 
liberality, the cultivation, on a large scale, of the best resinous trees ; 
When a grand company embraces, in a single speculation, the clear- 
ng and planting of nearly two hundred thousand acres, it would be 
a lamentable void, in the establishment at Fromont, not'to furnish 
€ first elements of. this grand forest plantation. But, far from in- 
Curing such a reproach, we have, on the contrary, brought forward 
~ subject and treated it in a mamer fruitful and novel, by calling 
the attention of our planters to the employment of precious elements, 
Which, hitherto too generally unknown or undervalued, have never 
been introduced, as most certainly they might be, into the composi- 
ton of our territorial riches. We wish to speak of those fine forest 
trees of North America, the oaks, walnuts, ashes, maples and pines, 
Which our colleague, M. André Michaux, has described in a work, 
: t ought to be in the hands of all planters; trees, whose various 
qualities might be brought under tribute in forming a good system of 
