THE 



GARDENERS MAGAZINE 



AUGUST, 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 p. 12.) 



Of the public gardens of Paris, the first, in point of import- 

 ance, because a garden of instruction as well as of enter- 

 tainment, is the Jardin des Plantes. The Garden of Alfort 

 belongs to the same class, but is of a very inferior order. 

 The Gardens of the Luxembourg and of the Tuilleries are 

 public gardens of recreation ; the Bois de Boulogne is a park 

 of recreation ; and the Garden of Sceaux, and some others that 

 we shall enumerate, may be styled gardens of festivity. 



The Jardin des Plantes dates its origin from the beginning 

 of the seventeenth century ; but, as a school of botany and 

 vegetable culture, was made what it is by the late Professor 

 Thouin, during the first years of the consulship. Speaking 

 with reference only to what concerns plants and their culture, 

 this garden is unquestionably the first establishment of the 

 kind in Europe. We have in Britain several botanic gardens, 

 but none maintained for the same objects as that of Paris. 

 These objects are two : first, to collect useful or remarkable 

 plants from every part of the world, and to distribute them to 

 every part of France, and, as far as practicable, to every other 

 country ; and, secondly, to form a perpetual school of botany 

 and vegetable culture. 



We shall not describe this garden here, having done so in our 

 Encyclopcedia of Gardening ; but, as English travellers are in 



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