THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



AUGUST, 1845. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notes and Recollections of a Tour through part of 

 Erigland, Scotland and France^ in the autumn of 1844. 

 By the Editor. 



(^Continued from page 251.) 



Vitry^ Sur-Sei7ie, September 16th. — The village of Vitry is 

 situated about six miles to the south of Paris, and a broad av- 

 enue, of nearly that length, conducts directly to it. It might 

 be called a village of nurserymen, there being about four 

 hundred here and at Choisy, the adjoining town. For three 

 or four miles the nurseries bordered the road, without the inter- 

 vention of scarcely a single building or fence. At least /oz^r 

 thousand acres are supposed to be covered with trees. 



The trees raised in these nurseries are exposed for sale in 

 the markets of Paris, in the same mode as pot plants, roses, 

 &c. Weekly, both in spring and fall, these sales take place, 

 and immense quantities are disposed of The cultivators are, 

 in general, men with small capitals, who manage their own 

 places, and bring their trees to market. Large proprietors, 

 with extensive capital, as in England and with us, are rarely 

 to be met with here. 



Nursery of M. Chatenay.—Om business engagements led 

 us to the grounds of M. Chatenay, called the Magnifique, who 

 is one of the most extensive cultivators, aiid whose father 

 before him, was for a long time a successful nurseryman. 

 M. Chatenay' s grandfather was gardener to one of the kings 

 of France, and a love of cultivation may be said to have 

 been inherited. 



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