384 Rise and Progress of Gardening in Bavaria, 



be happy to see you and all my English friends, and to return 

 the kindnesses I have experienced while in England. 

 I am, Sir, &c. 



Jacob Rinz. 

 Ball's Pondi London, May 14. 1829. 



Art. III. Historical Notices of the Rise and Progress o/ Garden- 

 ing in Bavaria ; toith a Description of the Royal Nurseries at 

 Munich and Weyhemtephan. By William Hinkert, Royal 

 Bavarian Court-Gardener, and Director of the Royal Central 

 Fruit Tree Nursery at Weyhenstephan, Member of the Agricul- 

 tural Society of Bavaria and of the Deputation for the Culture 

 of the Silkworm there. 



Sir, . - 



Agreeably to your desire, I send you a short account of the 

 Royal Nursery at Munich, and also of the great Royal Cen- 

 tral Fruit Tree Nursery at Weyhenstephan, near Freysing. 



You will, however, allow me to prefix to my account, a short 

 historical sketch of the culture of fruit trees in Bavaria, as you, 

 in your Encyclopedia of Gardening, make little mention of this 

 province. 



Culinary vegetables were known in Bavaria in the earliest 

 times; and beans, peas, lentils, and turnips were cultivated 

 chiefly in enclosed places (hortis^ which were denominated 

 fabaria, pisaria, lenticularia, and napina, according to the things 

 cultivated. Whoever committed theft in these places, or in 

 any other garden, was punished with a fine of 15 schillings, 

 which was, however, diminished to 3 under Charles the Great. 

 Garlic, the cucumber, and the chick pea were also known. 



The rearing of fruit trees was no less encouraged, and laws 

 enacted against damaging trees. Whoever is so malicious, says 

 the Bavarian law, as to injure another person's garden, is fined 

 the sum of 40 schillings, 20 of which go to the possessor of the 

 garden, the other 20 are taken as a public forfeiture to the 

 violated law ; the offender shall, moreover, replant there the 

 same number of trees, of the same varieties, and shall every 

 year pay down a schilling for each tree, until they bear fruit. 

 (T. XX.) 



Of fruit trees there were the apple, the pear, and the cherry 

 (chirsiboum, Cerasus) ; these were improved by grafting, and 

 whoever maliciously broke off a scion was fined the sum of 3 

 schillings, which, if the tree stood in a garden, was increased 

 to \ 5 schillings. The preparation of cider seems also not to 



