THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



DECEMBER, 1829. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. 



Art. I. Notes and. Reflections made during a Tour through Part 

 of France and Germany, in the Autumn of the Year 1828. By 

 the Conductor. 



(^Continued from p. 502.) 



Chateau de Qiicville, the Prince de Montmorency, about tvoo 

 miles from Rouen, Sejyfemher 3. — A flat sandy situation, with 

 no apparent boundary ; the house a large plain modern edifice, 

 approached through a broad avenue of lime trees, descending 

 rather than ascending ; the effect of the whole, to an English 

 eye, the reverse of grandeur, dignity, order, neatness, and 

 habitableness. It put us in mind of some of the wretched 

 chateaus which we have seen in Poland and Russia ; and with 

 every desire to be pleased and to commend, we could really 

 find nothing on which to bestow our approbation, except the 

 urbanity of the gardener, and of another man who went round 

 with us. The house is surrounded by a very broad sandy area, 

 on which are placed a profusion of old orange trees and pome- 

 granates, and a number of the commoner green-house plants 

 of the last Century ; few of them well grown, or, in our idea, at 

 all ornamental. There are a conservatory and a green-house ; 

 the former in great part below the level of the surrounding 

 surface, with a temporary flooring over it, to be used at 

 pleasure during winter and in bad weather, as a place of exer- 

 cise and romping for the family children. The green-house 

 had sloping glass and a flue in the English manner. There 

 is a considerable court of stable offices, with a number of 

 carriages and horses, and some of both are English. The 

 house, we were told, was full of company. In a shed were a 

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