THE 



GARDENERS MAGAZINE, 



FEBRUARY, 1830. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. 



Art. I. Notes and Reflections made during a Tour through Part 

 of France and Germany, in the Autumn of the Year 1828. By 

 the Conductor. 



{Continued from Vol. V. p. 649.) 



Paris, Sept. 6. 1828. — We were in Paris and its neigh- 

 bourhood till October 10., when we left that city for Germany ; 

 we returned on December 10., and remained till the middle 

 of January, 1829. After some general remarks on the vicinity 

 of Paris, as compared with the vicinity of London, we shall 

 arrange our notes under the heads of Public Gardens ; Royal 

 Gardens ; Commercial Gardens ; Villa Gardens and Country 

 Residences ; Agricultural Establishments and Manufactories 

 connected with Agriculture ; Architectural Improvements ; 

 and Garden Societies, Institutions, and Literature. 



The natural circumstances of the vale of London and the 

 plain of Paris differ in various particulars. The surface of 

 the country and the soil in the vicinity of Paris are more 

 favourable to gardening than they are in the neighbourhood 

 of London ; but the climate and almost every other circum- 

 stance are less favourable. This is speaking of gardening as 

 including all its branches, and with particular reference to 

 landscape-gardening. The surface of the country in the 

 neighbourhood of Paris is more irregular than that around 

 London ; and those irregularities have more character, because 

 they are for the most part produced by masses more or less 

 stony or rocky. The hills at Montmartre and Montmorency 

 are less like heaps of alluvial soil or gravel than the hills at 



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