5S The Fruit and Kitchen Gardens, near Pans. 



ture, I begged and obtained permission from the minister Ro- 

 land, to remove whatever trees I pleased from the complete 

 collection v.iiich that garden contained. They were labelled 

 according to the Catalogue of the Chartreux, and transplanted 

 in the garden of the Museum, where they were arranged in 

 such a way as to form a school for the instruction of nursery- 

 men, gardeners, country gentlemen, and even botanists and 

 physiologists. 



" ' The garden of the Chartreux was soon after destroyed; 

 there remained no vestige of it ; and it was not till ten or 

 twelve years after, that it was re-established in the Luxem- 

 bourg, by rooted plants or grafts taken from our school of the 

 Museum, in the Jardin des Plantes. 



" 'On the formation of that school, I invited Christopher 

 Hervy, gardener to the Chartreux, a man well informed on 

 the subject of fruit trees, and who supplied Duhamel with a 

 great portion of his nomenclature, to make a general exami- 

 nation at the periods of the flowering and fruiting of the trees, 

 to prove the identity of the names of our varieties. This labor 

 was pursued during the first six years of our plantation in the 

 school, in such a way, as to correct errors which might have 

 crept in. There now, therefore, remains no doubt on this 

 head. But this is not the case with many of the varieties 

 obtained from various parts of France, and more particularly 

 from abroad, since the publication of Duhamel's work. The 

 nomenclature of these is vague ; in many cases, the sorts have 

 proved synonymous with those already known ; and it is ne- 

 cessary to wait till the trees have fruited, in order that they 

 may be correctly named.' 



" It thus appears, that the collection of the Chartreux, made 

 during a period of 150 years, was preserved by the exertions 

 of M. Thouin; and of that collection, the Horticultural So- 

 ciety of London received, with the above communication, 

 gi'afts of 48 varieties of plums, 99 of apples, and 145 of pears. 

 Peach and other kinds of fruit trees, were subsequently for- 

 warded from the same source." 



Comparative Merits of Copper and Iron Pipes. 



Mr. Thompson visited the seat of Baron James Roths- 

 child, where there are extensive ranges of forcing-houses, 



