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tiplied. Besides this city garden, he has one of several acres, 

 a few miles from the city, which, from his being about to 

 leave immediately, on a travelling excursion to Belgium, we 

 did not visit. 



The first object which we noticed was a vine of the Frank- 

 indale grape, trained on the south side of the house, and the 

 fruit now (September) fully ripe ; although it was in the city, 

 where, even in our climate, some kinds arrive at maturity, yet 

 so early as this shows the favorableness of the climate of 

 France for the culture of the vine. By M. Jamin's request, 

 we ate freely of the fruit, and found it to be most excellent in 

 flavor and similar to, if not the same thing, (as M. Jamin 

 thinks,) as the Black Hamburg. 



The Garden is laid out with numerous walks, and the bor- 

 ders of them were filled with bearing trees. They were from 

 six to ten feet high, trained in pyramidal form, and many of 

 them full of fruit. This mode of growing trees appears to be 

 universally adopted around Paris ; we scarcely saw a stand- 

 ard tree. The advantages of the pyramidal or quenouille 

 form are, that, in gardens of moderate extent only, a collec- 

 tion of two or three hundred kinds may be cultivated ; they 

 occupy but little room, being placed about six feet apart, and 

 being pruned in, they do not throw sufficient shade to injure 

 any thing growing near them. They afford greater facilities 

 for examining the fruit while growing, and for picking it 

 when ripe ; the trees are not so much shaken by high winds, 

 and the large kind of pears do not so easily blow oflf: the fa- 

 cilities for making observations upon the wood and leaves, 

 are also greater ; and, as regards appearance alone, they are, 

 when well managed, far more beautiful than standards. To 

 those who wish to plant out large quantities for orchard cul- 

 tivation, they would not, of course, be recommended ; but for the 

 garden, the pyramidal form should be adopted. 



M. Jamin's Catalogue contains the names of more than 

 three hundred varieties of pears ; fifty of plums ; and thirty of 

 cherries : among them, many which are new, and which have 

 been purchased by Mr. Jamin during his annual visits to the 

 interior, and among the Flemish cultivators. Some of the new 

 varieties were in fruit ; but many of the trees had not yet obtain- 

 ed sufficient size. Among the names, are several of which 



