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admired. His azaleas were mostly over : he had fine ones of a reddish 

 orange and white. A beautiful andromeda, covered with white flowers. All 

 his plants were healthy. He has two daphnes, which are new j one D. 

 Cneorum, and the other D. Dauphinzi Wood's man is to take some over, 

 I saw, for the first time, what he calls Oranger poire : the flowers are very 

 dark on the outside, and the buds shaped like a pear, and black : the fruit 

 hangs in bunches, not like an orange; I think it must be a citron. M. Fion 

 is a clever man ; he talked and joked the whole time, and said the most 

 piquant things, which required more ready wit than either of us possessed 

 to answer. 



We often go to the flower-market. Yesterday they had a brilliant dis- 

 play of Cactus grandiflora and speciosa, English geraniums, and a F^iola 

 (heart's-ease), enormous, and of the richest purple, also English. 



I was at Versailles last Sunday, to see the grandes eaux. I believe the 

 pipes are out of repair, for all the jets did not play. I expected a grander 

 effect. There was a great crowd of common-looking people, which took 

 off" from the dignity of the place. I was struck with the beautiful order the 

 garden is kept in, though the court never goes there: there is not even a 

 fallen leaf in the borders. I remark the same thing in the Tuilleries : the 

 borders are full of handsome flowers, and they grow most luxuriantly; in- 

 deed, they take such precautions for the latter effect, that, instead of nice, 

 clean, black mould on the borders, they have left a layer of rotten dung. 

 From certain appearances, I rather think that they scrape the streets, or 

 perhaps the king^s stables daily, to contribute to their nourishment also. 

 We have been walking this afternoon in the Duke of Orleans's park of 

 Monceaux, Fauxbourg de Roule. You have seen it, I dare say. It is laid 

 out in the English style, and certainly does full justice to our national taste. 

 The groups of trees and walks are prettier than any thing I have seen for a 

 long time. They were making ha)', and I could almost fancy myself in 

 England. I did not admire the Petit Trianon so much, the farm looked so 

 dull, and going to ruin. — M — a. Place Vendome. . • • 



GERMANY. 



The Hot-iuatcr System of heating, I have heard, has been established at 

 Count Razumuffsky's, at Vienna, for upwards of eight years, and in a -small 

 propagating house at Dresden for a still longer period. — Jacob Rinz. 

 BaWs Pond, May 15. 1829. 



The Cultivation of Fricit Trees, a Branch of General Education. — In- 

 struction in the culture of fruit trees forms part of the education of the 

 ordinary seminaries of the state of Mecklenburg Schwerin. No school- 

 master is admitted to exercise that function, without a certificate of his 

 capacity to teach the management of fruit trees. The same masters are 

 obliged to take care of fruit gardens; and those who, previously to the 

 promulgation of the law on the subject, were ignorant of the art, receive 

 the due instruction at the expense of the school fund. iFo7\ Rev.) 



SWITZERLAND, 



M. Schleicher's Herbarium, he informs us, contains upwards of thirty 

 thousand species, in excellent preservation, and arranged, according to the 

 Linnean system, so admirably, that any genus can be referred to and ex- 

 amined, without disturbing any other genus. M. Schleicher, looking for- 

 ward to the end of all things, is beginning to " set his house in order," and, 

 thinking of selling his botanical treasures, invites all Europe to come and 

 se^ them at Bex, Canton de Vaud. 



