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But the most remarkable practice which we have seen here, and one 

 which, if there is not something adverse in the climate of England, will, 

 we have no doubt, be adopted there to a certain extent, is the manner of 

 cultivating pine-apples practised by M. Lang, the kitchen-gardener of the 

 court at Nymphenburg. His object was to imitate the pine-apple culture 

 of the West Indies. For this purpose he turned out two-year-old plants 

 in a bed of earth with a stratum of rotten dung below, in a flued pit, and 

 there they have remained between three and four years, giving a perpetual 

 succession of fruit. The first crop was produced the second year, from the 

 centre of what may be called the mother plants ; the second crop the third 

 year from the suckers of the third year still on the plants j and the third 

 crop from suckers produced by the suckers of the first year, and by other 

 suckers direct from the mother plants. The pit of plants is at this time 

 covered with several hundreds of fruit, in every stage, fi-om the first appear- 

 ance to ripeness. They are small, but one stool has from three to six, or 

 more ; so that the total weight produced on a given surface of ground, in 

 a given time, is perhaps more than by the ordinary mode of culture. The 

 plants were placed in the bed 1 ft. apart everyway, so that with their nume- 

 rous suckers they now form one impenetrable mass of foliage and fruit. The 

 renewal of the plants and the bed is contemplated in a year or two, agree- 

 ably to the practice in tropical countries. More minute details are pro- 

 mised us by M. Lang, and will appear in a future Number. We fear, how- 

 ever, that the success of this plan depends, to a certain extent, on the great 

 heat of summer, and the clear sky and dry air of the winter, in this elevated 

 and cold situation. It is certain that the dryness of the air here is the rea- 

 son why the leaves of plants in hot-houses, and of cabbages and endive in 

 cellars, do not damp off so much during winter, as they do with the mild 

 humid air of England. 



We had almost forgotten to notice an improvement In domestic economy 

 which M. Hazzi has introduced here among the bakers, viz. the use of a 

 kneading machine j it is also used by a number of bakers in Paris, and, we 

 hope, for the reputation of England in respect to cleanliness, it will soon 

 become general there. It is very simple and cheap, and requires no art in 

 the use. We recommend the subject to the Society of Arts ; Mr. Gill, 

 and the editor of the Mechanic's Magazine have, we believe, already no- 

 ticed this machine, which is described and figured in the Dictionnaire Tech- 

 nologique. There is also another improvement contemplated here, which 

 well deserves the attenfion of France. It is intended to oblige all those 

 who keep public inns, hotels, lodging-houses, coffee-houses, eating- houses, 

 or even common public houses, instead of paying a small license, as at pre- 

 sent, to establish des lieux inodores, and lieux exterieurs al'eau. This would 

 be a very great improvement in Germany, and still more so in France, 

 where the state of things in this department of domestic arrangement is 

 disgraceful to civilised society. The subject deserves the attention of the 

 patriotic individuals of both nations, for many reasons, and for one among 

 others, because personal cleanliness is known to lead to purity of mind and 

 conduct. England also, though incomparably superior to the Continent in 

 respect to the above arrangements, yet admits of some improvement, and 

 we think a Bramah, and a lieu a I'eau ought to be made tne whole, or a 

 part of the license of every house of public entertainment. Not to have 

 stated these matters in a Journal devoted to domestic as well as to rural 

 improvement would, we conceive, have been improper. 



We have paid a good deal of attention to the arrangement of churchyards, 

 in our progress from Dieppe to this place, and on some future occasion we 

 shall have to suggest several improvements in the arrangement of those of 

 England. Nothing could be easier than to render every country churchyard 

 in Britain an arboretum and herbaceous ground,with all the trees and plants 

 named, provided the clergyman would give up his right to the grass, which 

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