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guidance, in the culture of their plots of ground, from what they see prac- 

 tised. M. Hauch's gardens and plantations will also be the means of turn- 

 ing the attention of the cottagers to an improved method of horticulture 

 and fencing, in which the peasantry of Zealand are generally so much 

 behind. The Rev. Mr. Junge, in his invaluable work on the character, 

 customs, opinions, and language of the peasantry of North Zealand, men- 

 tions that hedging is diametrically opposite to the peasant's principles of 

 agriculture. The learned author has himself seen quickset hedges ruined 

 in the course of a night, long rows of young timber trees irrecoverably 

 broken, and the tops of fruit trees cut off, just as the savages of Louisiana 

 do, that they may pluck the fruit with greater ease. He proposes to 

 remedy those evils by the enactment of an old law in Holstein, pursuant 

 to v/hich every young man was obliged to plant a dozen of trees before he 

 could ask the minister to read the banns ; and for every son with which 

 God blessed him, he had, besides, to plant six or eight trees. 



Frederik'sborg is approached by one of the most beautiful roads in Den- 

 mark. The traveller who is anxious to carry pleasing recollections with 

 him of this country, will pursue his way through the gardens of Fredens- 

 borg, down to the boat-house on Esrom Lake. (fig. 16.) Thence he should 



cross the lake to a wood called Noddeboe-holt. There he will enjoy an 

 extensive view of this fine lake, which must be allowed to surpass even 

 Loch Lomond in softer beauties. There is a luxuriance of grand forest 

 scenery on Esrom Lake, of which Loch Lomond, with the exception of 

 som.e scanty plantations, is altogether destitute. 



From Noddeboe-holt the traveller should proceed to a more elevated 

 position, near the house of a forester named Bruhl, who has displayed great 

 taste for the picturesque in his management of the king's forests. This 

 spot commands an uninterrupted view of the lake. In the lower part its 

 wooded banks project from both sides far into the lake, and form, as it 

 were, lesser lakes and beautiful bays. On the left bank of the lake a fine 

 forest extends as far as Esrom. In this direction the Swedish ridge of hills 

 called KoU present a noble back-ground to the naked shores of the lake ; 

 which, however, soon resume their sylvan appearance on the right bank, iu 

 the vicinity of Fredensborg. (Fieldborg's Gerviany.) 



RUSSIA. 

 Tlie Imperial Botanic Garden, in the Apothecaries' Island, at St. Peters- 

 burg, it is reported in Paris, \vill probably be removed to the garden of the 



