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Landscape-Gardening at Munich. — Our southern excursion took in 

 part of your route. We spent a week at Treves, a fortnight at Baden, 

 a week at Carlsruhe, three days at Schwetzingen, &c. &c. In our proposed 

 journey, next summer, more into the interior of Germany, we shall try, 

 from what you say of it, to take in Munich, to see M. Sckell's application 

 of the plan of planting in masses of one species. What I have hitherto seen 

 done on this plan, on a small scale, I confess, has disappointed me, and 

 seemed even more insipid than the old one, which gave some variety of 

 outline ; the masses of shrubs looking like clipped hedges, and the trees as 

 pudding-like as any clumps that deform an English park ; but this is pro- 

 bably from the system not being properly understood. — W. S. Brussels, 

 Jan. 22. 



Pfaueninsel, Potsdam, Feb. 22. 1829. — Our winter has been very severe; 

 and during five days, which occurred between the 21st of December and 

 the 7th of February, the sun did not shine. From the 7th of February to 

 this day, we have had four days in which the sun never appeared. Not- 

 withstanding these disadvantages our cherries are ripe, and some will 

 be gathered this week. We calculate on cutting grapes by the 20th 

 of March, and we have been gathering strawberries since the 1st of Fe- 

 bruary. At Sans Souci the plums are an inch long. The finest plants at 

 this season of the year, in the Berlin botanic garden, are the Ferns and 

 Jroideae : all the others look well, but these look the best. The Cape 

 plants are now coming into flower. I beg of you to express my most sincere 

 thanks to all those gardeners in Great Britain and Ireland that I had the 

 happiness of seeing during my late tour in your country; they took the 

 greatest pains to inform me of every thing, and showed me the utmost 

 liberality and kindness. I am. Sir, &c. — G. A. Fintelmann. 



An FjncyclopcBdic Dictionary of Plants, by M. Kachler, has just made 

 its appearance at Vienna ; it is in two volumes, one of which has already 

 appeared, and is intended more for the use of gardeners and amateur horti^ 

 culturists than for botanists. {For. Quart. Rev., Jan.) 



NORTH AMERICA. 



Vahie of a good moral Character. — We presume that you have been 

 informed that we have procured a situation for Mr. Cameron, the 

 worthy gardener you introduced to us. It was as well the honest man 

 had friends here to attest to his good character, as an awkward cir- 

 cumstance befel him on his way to Boston, to enter on his situation a 

 few miles beyond that city. On the passage to Boston, some villain 

 broke open the trunk of the mate of the packet, and took thence 250 

 dollars. On arriving at Boston the passengers were all searched, and 

 250 dollars being found between the leaves of Cameron's bible (I believe), 

 he was taken up on suspicion. The only circumstantial evidence in his 

 favour was, that the notes lost by the mate were on the bank of Boston, 

 while the notes found on Cameron were those of the bank of New York. 

 There he was an entire stranger, with a large family, threatened with 

 imprisonment, and which would have been carried into execution, had 

 not his employer stood in the breach and become bail for his appearance 

 at court. His employer immediately wrote us to clear up the business ; 

 and the justice, having no doubt of his innocence, wrote the cashier of 

 the bank of New York to ascertain if Cameron had drawn any money 

 from the bank, and at what date. Cameron also wrote to us stating the 

 whole affair, and referring us to a banker in the city to whom he sold a 

 bill for 60/. at a certain time. We called on the banker, ^nd found all 

 correct. The banker also wrote the justice the satisfactory particulars, 

 which exonerated Cameron in the most honourable manner. How valuable 

 is a good character, which thus insures a man friends wherever he goes ! 



