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works ; is bounded on the west by a stream, and enclosed on 

 the east by a fence of planks and stakes. 



The soil is of a clayey kind, mixed with sand and light turf 

 earth, in which all the trees and shrubs thrive vigorously. 



Some years ago, before this nursery had attained its present 

 size, the object was merely to raise native forest trees and 

 shrubs for planting in the royal gardens. During the last 

 seven years, however, it has arrived at the greatest perfection 

 as to regularity and order. Many beautiful kinds of trees 

 have been raised from North American seeds, and other rare 

 trees and shrubs have been planted. But the cultivation of 

 the different varieties of fruit trees has, in a particular manner, 

 increased. We have thus at present 900 sorts of apples, 400 

 sorts of pears, 80 sorts of plums, 200 sorts of cherries, 90 sorts 

 of vines, and 60 sorts of peaches and apricots, exclusive of 

 other sorts of fruits cultivated here. 



The apples, pears, and plums are chiefly from Dr. Diel on 

 the Lahn ; the cherries from M. Truchsess of Bettenburg, 

 who has been a collector of cherries for forty years, and has 

 published an excellent work on them ; the vines mostly from 

 France, England, and Italy; and peaches and apricots from 

 Austria and Alsatia. 



There is also a collection of fruit trees in pots here, of more 

 than 1500 different sorts, which was formed at the same time 

 as the rest of the collection, and is yearly increasing; it facili- 

 tates the study of the sorts, and has the advantage of taking 

 up little room. 



This nursery being completely filled, a new one was estab- 

 lished by the command of the king, of which I shall now give 

 a short account. 



The Royal Central Fruit Tree Nursery at WeyhenstepJian, 

 near Freysing^ of which I am the director, has a north-east 

 aspect. The soil is of lime and marl, mixed with sand, and 

 the trees reared there are so hardened by the operation of the 

 raw air and cold weather, that they are enabled to bear any 

 other climate with greater ease. 



Since the foundation of this nursery, in the year 1827, there 

 have been about 250,000 fruit trees planted there, a great part 

 of which were given away from the nursery at Munich. In 

 the autumn of the same year, also, a seed nursery of 70,000 

 yai'ds was laid down and sown. 



There are at present about 80,000 young stocks of fruit 

 trees, of the most approved kinds, which, by their vigorous 

 growth, fully recompense the planter. This nursery will, in 

 a few years, cover a space of from 40 to 50 acres. Apples, 



