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compliment to say, that he duly appreciates the character of 

 this most scientific of French gardeners); rockwork; fountains; 

 painted landscapes, as terminations to walks in the open air, 

 and also for completing the effect of certain compositions of 

 rockwork, water, and succulent plants, which he has formed 

 within the houses. There is a wall covered with orange trees, 

 which bear abundantly, and have a fine appearance. 



In side-grafting camellias, oranges, and magnolias, instead 

 of inserting the lower end of the scion into a phial of water 

 (Vol. II. p. 33. fig. 12.), or into a potato as practised by Mr. 

 Murray (Vol. III. p. 29.), M. Fion inserts them in the earth 

 of the jiot ; and he showed us the scion of a Magnolm con- 

 spicua which had rooted in this way. Every part of his 

 grounds is as neat and orderly as it is tasteful ; and, in short, 

 there is no commercial flower-garden in Paris that will so well 

 repay the visitor. 



Garden ofM. Tamponef, Fleuriste de la Chambre du Roi. — 

 Oct, 4. The space occupied is about two acres, and it dis 

 plays the best assemblage of large orange trees and camellias 

 which we have anywhere seen in France ; the whole in excel- 

 lent order. The young orange trees, and all such as by acci- 

 dent or design are in a growing state, are preserved through 

 the winter in ffreen-houses with glazed roofs like those of 

 England, and in flued pits. Those which are not in a grow- 

 ing state are packed close together in one of those barn-like 

 orangeries which are common to commercial gardens in 

 France. The largest tubs are placed on the ground ; the 

 next largest upon them in the interstices between the trees ; 

 and above these a third tier of still smaller boxes ; so that not 

 a foot of room, from the floor to the ceiling, is lost. An 

 English gardener would hardly believe it possible that plants 

 so closely packed together, in a house having no more light 

 than an ordinary room, and totally withovit flues or any 

 means of suppl^'ing artificial heat, would pass the winter 

 without losing their leaves. It is certain, however, that they 

 do so ; and the secret of this is, that the trees are thrown into 

 a dormant state about the middle of September by withhold- 

 ing water. During winter, the frost is effectually excluded 

 by wooden shutters ; and over these, when necessary, straw 

 mats. The windows are not opened after winter has fairly set 

 in, till its greatest severity is believed to be over; and, unless 

 in houses where there is a flue, no water is given during that 

 period, and sometimes not till the end of February. This 

 treatment would scarcely answer in the moist climate of Eng- 

 land : but yet it affords important hints for preserving oranges 



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