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Michael : nor would this perfuming en masse surpass other 

 improvements of the age; lighting by gas, for example. By 

 the judicious distribution of orange trees, and of other odori- 

 ferous flowers, shrubs, and plants, or even by mignonette 

 alone, the air of any city might be rendered as odoriferous as 

 that of a garden. When the many have once conquered 

 from the few what is necessary and convenient, they will then 

 attempt what is agreeable and refined ; and, with the know- 

 ledge of the wonderful resources of nature and art, requisite 

 to give them the sovereignty of society, they will succeed. 



But, to return to the orange trees at the Tuilleries, or, to 

 speak our minds freely, all those kept in tubs in the open gar- 

 den every where, we should greatly prefer having the tubs or 

 boxes sunk in the borders, and covered and disguised in such a 

 way as would convey the idea that the trees were growing in the 

 natural soil. Nothing could be easier to execute ; and we re- 

 commend this, and also the subject of plucking off the blossoms, 

 to the proper authorities. We are aware of the allegation, 

 that suffering the fruit to come to maturity would weaken the 

 tree, &c. &c. ; but it is the gardener's business to supply the 

 tree with strength ; and we know he can supply it when his 

 interest does not interfere. * 



(To be continued,} 



Art. II. Notice of the Gardens of the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert 

 at Spofforth. By N. H. S. 



At Spofforth, a mean-looking straggling village, about four 

 miles south of Harrogate, is the residence of that eminent 

 botanist the Hon. and Rev. William Herbert, brother to the 

 present Earl of Caernarvon. Mr. Herbert is a gentleman of 

 good private fortune ; and the rectory of Spofforth is said to 

 bring him in an income of 2500/. per annum. As a botanist 

 Mr. Herbert is well known : he is also a most accomplished 

 scholar, an eloquent preacher, and a poet. (See his Helga, 

 2 vols.) The rectory house has nothing about it to deserve 

 either encomium or disparagement. The gardens nearly 



* Since writing the above, we have seen, in the Times (Sept. 24.), an 

 intention expressed of pulling down the Tuilleries, to rebuild a palace for 

 the use of the three princes. We should not be sorry to see that part of 

 the Tuilleries pulled down which is said to be in a state of decay, and rebuilt 

 as a continuation of the National Galleries of Sculpture and Painting ; but 

 most deeply should we regret to hear of a palace for a prince being built in 

 France after what the French have done. The days for erecting palaces for 

 individual kings, we trust, are gone never to return, not only in France but 

 throughout Europe : a government palace is a different thing. 



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