Rouen. 373 



Qiienoidlles {Gard. Mag., vol. ii. p. 78.)j and of Catalogue de- 

 scrip/if, viethodiqiic^ ct raisonne^ des Especcs Varietes, ct Sous- 

 Varietes du Genre Rosier, just published. He is an exceed- 

 ingly well-informed man, and ardent in his profession ; we are 

 not aware, that there is any nurseryman who, as a cultivated 

 man, can be compared with him in England, with the exception 

 of George Loddiges, and we only knowof M.Vilmorin in France. 

 He showed us every thing, and, considering the comparatively 

 limited encouragement which he receives, we were astonished 

 at the number of rare trees and shrubs which he had collected. 

 He has also a library, assez considerable, as he informed us, 

 jJOiir un planteur de choux, a herbarium, and some specimens in 

 other departments of natural history. He has paid consider- 

 able attention to landscape-gardening, and draws plans and 

 lays out grounds a VAnglaise. His culture embraces every 

 out of door department, and excels all others at Rouen for 

 rare articles; and, judging from his catalogue now before us 

 in which 880 sorts are described, we should add, for roses. 

 Among the magnolias we found all the species grown about 

 London, except Son\a.ngedna. Among the plants which have 

 left an impression on our mind are Serratula noveboracensis, 

 8 ft. high and very ornamental ; jLinum maritimum finely 

 grown ; Corylus ^vellana var. //rticifolia, handsome speci- 

 mens; the Chinese quince; and peach of Ispahan, which ripens 

 its fruit as a standard. Tilia americana, rubra, and alba, 

 iSorbus americana and domestica were noted, and we might 

 have marked down a great many other things, but did not, 

 from want of time. The nursery ground, perhaps about 10 

 or 12 acres on a sloping surface, was regularly laid out in 

 parallelogram compartments, in the direction of the slope,^ 

 with 2 ft. alleys between, and diagonal broader walks for 

 ascending and descending with ease to and from the top of the 

 slope. The whole was in excellent order; and the soil, which 

 was a gravelly clay, was laid loosely and in rough clods, so as 

 to benefit as much as possible from the sun and air. 



Fremont le Jeune's Nursery contains a good collection of 

 fruit trees and roses, and the common sorts of forest trees 

 and ornamental shrubs; a part of his signboard announces 

 toutes especes d'arbustes pour lesjardins Ayiglaises, but we saw 

 very few. He transplants all his evergreens and fruit trees 

 every three years, in order that they may rise with fibrous 

 roots. Plums, it seems, cannot be successfully propagated 

 about Rouen, for what reason we could not discover ; they are 

 purchased from the nurserymen at Orleans and Vitry. In 

 speaking with M. Fremont respecting the training of fruit trees 

 en pyramide, he observed that all trees whatever with high 



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