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These different preparations are enaployed for the support and 

 propagation of a collection of vegetables, (many of which are still 

 rare in France,) which amounts already, including those in the open 

 air, to more than six thousand species and varieties. The number 

 of duplicates raised in pots is constantly kept at about a hundred and 

 twenty thousand. The part of the garden devoted to heath plants 

 is considered by the best judges as the most complete in the environs 

 of Paris. To give an idea of the rapid increase in this department - 

 alone, it is sufficient to state that there were raised the last year, un- 

 der glass frames, forty thousand of the broadleavedKalmia, and that 

 four thousand azaleas are arranged in pots for the grafting of more 

 than a hundred and fifty varieties, according to the method of baron 

 de Tschaudy. This kind of nursery is protected from the sun and 

 the winds by the long palisades of Thurgas, and watered by numer- 

 ous furrows ; and at the same time that it is happily connected, by 

 the prolonged contour of its evergreen mass, with the general scenery 

 of the park, it includes within itself very considerable resources, 

 of which the nurserymen and florists, both at home and abroad, 

 who come hither to furnish themselves v/nh assortments, know how 

 to avail themselves. 



At a time when the scarcity and dearness of wood are more and 

 more sensibly felt ; when some writings of distinguished excellence 

 have been published on the necessity and the means of arresting this 

 constantly increasing evil ; when a benevolent individual has come 

 forward to encourage by his writings, his example, and his patriotic 

 liberality, the cultivation, on a large scale, of the best resinous trees ; 

 when a grand company embraces, in a single speculation, the clear- 

 ing and planting of nearly two hundred thousand acres, it v/ould be 

 a lamentable void, in the. establishment at Fromont, not to furnish 

 the first elements of this grand forest plantation. But, far from in- 

 curring such a reproach, we have, on the contrary, brought forward 

 the subject and treated it in a manner fruitful and navel, by calling 

 the attention of our planters to the employment of precious elements, 

 which, hitherto too generally unknown or undervalued, have never 

 been introduced, as most certainly they might be, into the composi- 

 tion of our territorial riches. Vve wish to speak of those fine forest 

 trees of North America, the oaks, walnuts, ashes, maples and pines, 

 which our colleague, M. Andre Michaux, has described in a work, 

 that ought to be in the hands of all planters ; trees, whose various 

 qualities might be brought under tribute in forming a good system of 



