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l)een obliged to seek an abode where I could, for refuge for my furni- 

 ture, my papers and my person, and in the embarrassment of a removal 

 from a palace to a house of limited dimensions. I am still Professor at 

 Ghent. — (Letters of Dr. Van Mons, of Louvain, to Messrs. Manning, 

 Dearborn, and Kenrick, published in the Hort. Beg.) Dr. Van Mons 

 is now completing his Fomonomie Beige: there is to be a third volume, 

 on account of tiie length of the Catalogue raisonne of his Culture of 

 Louvain, which is to be annexed to it. This catalogue is to contain 

 full information on all the fruits that have been raised by Dr. Van 

 Mons, and many of which have been sent to Mr. Manning, numbered, 

 but not named, — Conds. 



GERMANY. 



Notes on the Trees, Gardens, Gardeners, Garden Artists, and Gar- 

 den Authors of Germany. — The oldest palms are in Vienna and Dres- 

 den. The Corypha umbraculifera has a head with an enormous 

 circumference. One in Schonbrunn is nearly as large. There are 

 here, also, ChameeVops hunTilis, Zamia, and Euterpe pisiformis, which 

 belong to Prince Antoine, and which have grown so high, that they 

 have been obliged to make the house higher. 



It is worthy of remark, that a Baron Dietrich, in Vienna, sent out 

 ships, at his own expense, to Brazil, to collect palms, &c., for the em- 

 peror ; and such wonderful discoveries were made, that several palms 

 were found from thirty to forty feet in height, which are now exhibited 

 in the Brazil Museum at Vienna ; by which the age of the trees can 

 easily be ascertained, and an idea of tropical vegetation given. 



The oldest orange trees in Germany are at Dresden, and have been 

 there since the time of King Augustus the Great. He was very fond 

 of turnery, and sent for orange trees with very thick stems from Asia ; 

 and, in order to keep them fresh, they were laid in a cellar : after a 

 short time they began to grow ; and they were removed and planted, 

 and grew extremely well. 



The largest and best green-houses in Germany are in the Burg at 

 Vienna : they are eighty feet high, and three hundred feet long. [Ac- 

 cording to other accounts these dimensions are much exaggerated ; but 

 they will no doubt be corrected for us by Baron Jacquin, or M. Charles 

 Ranch.] In the middle there is a space for flowers, in which, in win- 

 ter, there are several thousand bulbs in flower sent every year from 

 Holland. Once every year there is a fete in this garden, which is called 

 the rose feast. After breakfast the company retire to a ball, where the 

 nobility are seen waltzing, surrounded by flowers. 



The best imitation of nature is seen at Schonbrunn, where, in the 

 new hot-houses, you might fimcy yourself in a Brazilian forest. The 

 Caladia and other .^roidefe, Cymbidia, Scitaminese, and Tillands^ce, 

 grow hanging down from old trees. The ferns grow in deep shade 

 among rocks. This arrangement was made by M. Schott, court gar- 

 dener, who was several years in Brazil, and who has succeeded in giv- 

 ing these plants such a natural appearance. 



Amongst the most remarkable gardens in Germany are those of Lax- 

 enburg, Bruck, Cassel, Munich, the new garden at Potzdam, the gar- 

 dens at Manhehn, at Frankfort, and the new gardens at Stuttgard, 

 which contain four hundred acres, and have cost, perhaps, already more 

 than a million of florins. 



Amongst the Hungarian gardens, those that belong to Princess Chra- 

 salkowitz in Getelo, tl:'" Count of Brunswick hi Corompa, and Prince 

 Esterhazy at Eisenstadt, Count Szandor, Count Festetits, and several 

 others, are the most woi'thy of notice. 



