THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



APRIL, 1831. 



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. 20.) 



1. HE Gardens of the Commercial Florists of Paris are nume- 

 rous, but none of them are large, nor is the capital embarked 

 in them any thing like that which is employed in the cor- 

 responding class of gardens of London ; such establishments, 

 for instance, as those of Colville, Allen, Moore, Dennis, &c., 

 in the King's Road. The florists' gardens of Paris differ 

 also from those of London in not having show-houses ; their 

 productions being sent chiefly, or almost entirely, to the pub- 

 lic flower-market, and there exposed for sale by their wives 

 or daughters. In London, the wealthy and tlie amateurs 

 delight in passing from one nursery to another, examining 

 what is in perfection or coming forward, and purchasing 

 here and there what pleases them. In Paris, the admirers of 

 flowers go to the flower-market, where they find displayed 

 the bloom of all the commercial gardens. The essential 

 cause of this difference in the mode of purchasing flowers in 

 London and Paris, we apprehend to be the general preva- 

 lence of botanical knowledge among the wealthy females of 

 England ; whereas, in France, botanical knowledge among 

 wealthy females is rare. The love of flowers, as ornamental 

 to a house, is common to the two countries; but in England 

 the feeling is cultivated ; and the enjoyment is greater in pro- 

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