THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



OCTOBER, 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. 392.) 



The public gardens of recreation in and around Paris are 

 numerous, and they are all of them more conspicuously, and 

 perhaps more truly,, scenes of enjoyment than the public gar- 

 dens of England ; because the French are more gay and social 

 in their enjoyments than the English. The Garden of the 

 Tuilleries, once • ailed royal, is, taking it altogether, perhaps 

 the most interesting public garden in the world. We will 

 not enter either on a history or a description of this garden; 

 and, indeed, as we have other important business to transact 

 on this bright morning of September 14th, we are determined 

 that the present article shall be short. Besides, we feel that 

 it would be a species of profanation, even in a Magazine of 

 Gardening, to say much on any subject in which Paris is con- 

 cerned, foreign from the glorious events which took place on 

 the 27th, 28th, and 29th of July last ; events which, sanguine 

 as we are as to the destiny of the human race, and great 

 as have of late been our expectations from the French (see 

 pp. 474. and 514.), have produced results of which " we 

 dare not have dreamed."* When once society is freed from 

 the trammels of antiquated institutions, the rapidity with which 



* See To the Tricolor, a poem, by T. Roscoe, Esq. ; and the letters of 

 O. P. Q. in the Morning Chronicle, a newspaper which has been justly de- 

 signated by the French as the dignity and ornament of the British press. 



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