1 3-i Notes and Reflections diirhig a To7ir. 



in pits and against flued walls. In a dry stratum of chalk we 

 should have no fear of preserving orange trees of any size, in 

 a deep excavation covered with glass, though without the 

 means of applying artificial heat. 



Garden ofM. Douhe, Fleuriste, Rue de CharoJine, No. 172. — 

 Oct. 4. The surface appeared to be not quite an acre. There 

 is an extensive barn-like orangery, containing a collection of 

 very large orange trees purchased at the sale of a nobleman's 

 effects during the first Revolution, and now kept for their 

 flowers. Some of the tubs bore inscriptions signifying by 

 what king of the last century the tree had been presented to 

 the former owner ; a proof that an orange tub will at least 

 last 40 years ; the material is oak. Neapolitan violets are 

 here cultivated in large quantities ; they are planted in beds 

 enclosed by boards, on which sashes are placed during the 

 winter : with this protection, and without any heat, they con- 

 tinue to produce flowers from November till May. The 

 variety of rose called Qiiatre saisons forms a main article of 

 culture ; the plants are cut down about the end of August, in 

 consequence of which they come into bloom from the middle 

 of October to Christmas. The latest are covered with glass, 

 in the same manner as the violets. There are here some very 

 large standard apricots, which bear well every year. Every 

 odd corner, the walls and roofs of the buildings, and the 

 shed of a gin-wheel for raising water, are covered with vines, 

 apparently the green Chasselas, from which was then hang- 

 ing an abundant crop of grapes. The leaves v/cre thinned to 

 a greater degree than we should approve of; but the pro- 

 prietor defended the practice, not so much because it ripened 

 the fruit, as because it coloured it by admitting the direct 

 influence of the sun, and so gave it a somewhat withered 

 and ripened appearance. The crop of grapes on these vines, 

 which were rooted into dry rich soil on limestone rock, ex- 

 ceeded any thing we have ever seen in the open air. 



Ballard's Flower-garden, Rue Rasfroy. — Dec. 29. One 

 object of thi? gardener is to have carnations in flower every 

 day in the year. He had a great quantity of laurustinus and 

 common box in pots ; and in pits he was forcing roses, lilacs, 

 iberis semperflorens, common mezereon and other species of 

 i)aphne, &c. On dung-beds, covered with glass frames, he 

 was bringing forward pinks and other herbaceous plants, hya- 

 cinths, tulips, crocuses, and other bulbs. We have not a suf- 

 ficiently distinct recollection of the other commercial flower- 

 gardens to say much about them ; and we shall therefore, in 

 our next Number, proceed to market-gardens. 

 (To he continued.^ 



