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form a case to the ball and plant, which may be lifted and removed any- 

 where at pleasure. {French Paper. Com. by L. R — r.) 



Education of the Military. — Schools upon the Lancasterian plan are 

 establishing in the different regiments, in virtue of a decision of the Supreme 

 Council of War. The Council has also decided that courses of lectures on 

 literature, the sciences, &c., shall be established for the officers and sub- 

 officers, and which all the privates are to be invited to attend, {Paris 

 Paper.) 



GERMANY. 



Public Garden at FranJefort.* — Most towns of any size on the Continent 

 — in this point, alas ! so different from those of England — can boast of 

 their promenades and public gardens, but not many can, in this respect, vie 

 with Frankfort, which is wholly surrounded (except on one side where the 

 Maine runs) with aJardin Anglais, ov pleasure-ground, at least two miles in 

 length, and occupying the breadth of the former ditch and ramparts, laid 

 out in the English style, and affording great variety of shady walks and pic- 

 turesque scenery, with the grand advantage of being accessible from every 

 part of the city in a few minutes. One pecuHar feature of this pleasure 

 ground is, that it is not confined to trees and shrubs, but contains a profu- 

 sion of the choicest flowers, roses, dahlias, chrysanthemums, &c., together 

 with most of the showy annuals, as balsams, China asters, &c., even ge- 

 raniums and Ferraria Tigridia, planted in large masses of each, and inter- 

 mixed with vast beds of mignonette, all in a high state of luxuriance and 

 beauty. Nothing could be more brilliant than the display of this garden 

 when I saw it in September last, when the dahlias, and the superb clumps 

 of Datura arborea, »S'alvia coccinea, &c., were in flower ; and, as a proof of 

 the scale on which it is managed, and the attention paid to it, I may men- 

 tion that the gardeners were then preparing a bed of irregular figure wholly 

 for pinks, above 60 ft. long, and from 9 to 15 ft. broad, which they were 

 trenching 2 ft. deep, after laying manure at the bottom of each trench, and 

 carefully picking out the stones. 



This garden affords a striking, and, to an Englishman, very mortifying 

 proof of the great superiority of the manners of the German lower classes 

 over those of the English. Though merely separated from a public high- 

 road by a low hedge which may be stridden across, and at all times acces- 

 sible (there being no doors or gates of any kind to the entrances) to every 

 individual of a population of 50,000 souls, and constantly frequented by ser- 

 vants and children of all descriptions, not a flower, or even a leaf of any 

 one of the plants, from the rarest and most show}' to the humblest, seems 

 ever touched. Even the beds of mignonette looked as untrodden and un- 

 pluckedas if in an English private garden. It is needless to say how utterly 

 impossible it would be to have, near any large English town, a similar gar- 

 den, thus open to the public, and thus scrupulously kept from injury : and 

 yet there are no persons (as far as I saw) to watch, and instead of threats of 

 heavy penalties, a printed paper is affixed on a board at each entrance, 

 expressing, in German, that the public authorities having originally formed, 

 and annually keeping up, the garden, for the gratification of the citizens, its 

 trees, shrubs, and flowers are committed to the safeguard of their individual 

 protection. This simple appeal is here sufficient — of what use would a 

 similar one be in England ? — W. S. Brussels, Feb. 26. 1829. 



* These gardens were laid out, between 1809 and 1811, by M. Sebastian 

 Rinz, nurseryman in Frankfort ; and his son M. Jacob Rinz, a beautiful 

 ichnographic and pictorial draughtsman, now in England, and about to 

 make a tour in Scotland and Ireland, has furnished us with plans of them, 

 which will be published in our promised work. (See Vol. IV. p. 557.) — Cond. 



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