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from those adopted by us in the Arboretum Britcamicum, but we 

 had not time to make a list. The surrounding part of the garden 

 is not yet completed, or, rather, is only commencetl. There is 

 to be a department for horticulture, including a collection of 

 fruit trees; and an arboretum et fruticetum is to be distributed 

 round the whole. The fruit-wall is already formed, and planted 

 with peaches, nectarines, and apricots, all on little hills. The 

 larva of the cockchafer is here so extraordinarily troublesome, 

 that in front of the peach trees, about 2 ft. from their roots, rows 

 of cabbage lettuces are planted to attract the larva; and, as soon 

 as any lettuce begins to wither, the worm at its root is sought 

 for and killed. Some hothouses are already erected, and heated 

 by hot water in Kewley's manner. To shelter this garden, a 

 row of handsome plants, 15 ft. high, of Quercus peduncuklta 

 fastigiata, is planted; a tree which, it is much to be regretted, 

 is quite neglected in England. It might be had by hundreds 

 from the Parisian or Lyons nurserymen, or from Bollwyller, or 

 Tarascon, or Metz ; and there are, we believe, plenty of plants 

 of it at Savvbridgeworth. The finished parts of the garden were 

 in excellent order, and did the highest credit to M. Dubreuil, 

 the director. 



The Cemetery, which was just commenced when we were 

 here in 1828, and was then a naked hill, without a single tree 

 or building, is now intersected by avenues, chiefly of spruce fir, 

 but partly also of Scotch pine and silver fir; and there is one 

 averuie of Populus alba. A considerable number of very hand- 

 some tombs have been erected, and there is scarcely one of these 

 of which it can be said that it is not in good taste. It is the 

 best school for this department of architecture that we know of, 

 and is highly creditable to the taste of the wealthy classes of 

 Rouen. We can only account for this from the general intelli- 

 gence which prevails among the wealthy classes, almost all en- 

 gaged in commerce, manufactures, or the law, and from the 

 necessity of every one who would bury here purchasing the 

 ground. The ground belono-s to the town, and is sold at a fixed 

 rate per square foot (about ten francs), without reference to situ- 

 ation. At the entrance to the cemetery there is a garden, with 

 greenhouses, frames, and pits, kept by the curator, for raising 

 ornamental plants, in pots, to decorate the tombs of such as are 

 willing to pay for this peculiar luxury. Some of the tombs are 

 constandy ornamented, during summer, with 200 or 300 pots of 

 greenhouse plants, others with two ar three dozen, some with 

 only one or two, some with a nosegay in water, some with a 

 wreath of gnaphaliums, helichrysums, &c. (immortelles) ; and 

 some, which we think the best taste of all, are without any thing. 

 The grave of that excellent man, M. I'Abbe Gossier, which is 

 not yet furnished with a tomb, had a pot plunged in the mound 



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