Country Seats in Poland. 377 



Lazenki [fig. 78.), a palace near Warsaw, with ground* 



well described in your Encyclopaedia of Gardening, and 

 which every stranger allows to be most beautiful. 



Moncoteau, and Natolia-Gucin, are not far from Warsaw, 

 and very beautiful. There may be added the gardens of Ma- 

 riejswice, Konskie, Skierniewice, Bobresck, Woyslawice, all 

 of a rare beauty. 



In what relates to the culture of forest trees, the manage- 

 ment of natural woods, &c. we are entirely indebted to the 

 enlightened endeavours of Count Louis Plater; who has also 

 established a school of Forest Culture in Warsaw. 



The large and beautiful botanic garden belonging to the 

 University of Warsaw, under the direction of M. Schubert, 

 Professor of Botany, possesses not only a very large number 

 of species (about 10,000), but contains a collection of fruit 

 and forest trees. 



To these remarks, I may add one respecting the Larix 

 communis. There are, in several parts of Poland, many 

 woods of this tree, but particularly in the private forest be- 

 longing to the Count Soldyk, on the estate of Chlewisk. 

 On this estate there are trees so old and large, that some 

 years ago the French government sent M. le Chevalier Jean 

 de Reverseau to purchase a great number of them for the 

 French navy. Each tree, cleared of the bark, was 84 feet 

 long, and 36 inches in diameter at the broad, and 18 inches 

 at the small end, Twenty pair of oxen were necessary for 

 drawing each of these trees out of the forest. It is, perhaps, 

 also not unworthy of notice, that there have been made some 

 trials, upon the use of the leaves of pines of several species for 



