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purpose of improving a portion of government territory, valued at a 

 million of louis. {Constitutionnel, Avril 28. 1826.) Another company is 

 proposed to be formed for embanking certain lands in the province of 

 Britany. There are to be a great number of shares, and great profits are 

 of course promised. (Bull, des Sciences Agricoles, Mai, 1826.) 



Trianon Nursery, near Rouen. {Encycl. of Gard.) A correspondent has 

 sent us the following information respecting this establishment : " Messrs. 

 Calvert and Co., Englishmen, who have undertaken it, profess to show the 

 foreign cultivators that, with care and attention, plants may be as easily 

 cultivated in France as in England, which the French gardeners are said 

 to deny, on account of the difference of climate. In order to effect 

 this purpose, they began with French gardeners, but were soon obliged to 

 have recourse to Britons. With these they propagated different species of 

 heaths, and various Cape, Botany Bay, and Chinese plants, with perfect 

 success. The French gardeners were surprised to see white sand used 

 for this purpose, thinking that the whole of the pot was filled with that 

 material. 



" The chief object in establishing this nursery was to cultivate plants 

 there which succeed better in France than in England, such as roses, 

 oranges, &c., and then bring them over to this country for sale. A cargo 

 of roses is in consequence sent over every year from Rouen, and partly 

 sold wholesale to the nurserymen and partly by retail. The list is said 

 to contain some hundreds of names, and next year we are promised 

 about one hundred and twenty varieties of China roses; between seventy 

 and eighty varieties of Noisettes, and seven or eight varieties of Rosa 

 odorata." (C. June 26.) 



HOLLAND. 



Hay and Pasture Grasses. The Agricultural Society*of Amsterdam have 

 offered their first medal, and a sum in ducats, for the best essay on the 

 grasses of Holland, to be given in by December, 1826. {Bui. Univ.) 



Enrichment of Down Lands. In 1805 a French camp was established 

 near Ostend, on the downs bordering the sea. Its surface for a foot and 

 a half deep was composed of shifting sand, which rendered the situation 

 scarcely habitable. In a short time this camp was surrounded by forti- 

 fications of turf; the barracks were built of turf, and covered with thatch, 

 and each house had a seat before it, and a garden behind containing excellent 

 kitchen crops, and ornamented with pots of flowers and shell-work. The 

 soil was rendered fertile by the soldiers bringing sacks of earth on their 

 backs, from half a league to a league distance. Wells were dug in various 

 places, and the improvement was completed by continual watering. (Rev. 

 Encycl. Decern. 1825.) 



GERMANY. 



Bavaria. The King has recently founded and endowed an Institute for 

 extending a theoretical and practical knowledge of agriculture. The In- 

 stitute is divided into three classes, in each of which the number of pupils 

 is fixed, and the instruction public and gratuitous. In the first class, a 

 knowledge of agricultural labour, of the most approved methods in use, 

 and of the management of the different agricultural implements, &c. is 

 inculcated. In order to be admitted into this class, the pupils must have 

 a healthy constitution, adapted to agricultural labour, such elementary 

 knowledge as is usually acquired at country schools, and be at least sixteen 

 years of age. In the second class, theory and practice are united ; the 

 labours of the pupils are directed by experienced professors, and a 



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