Foreign Notices : — France. 



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and, indeed, of their subsistence, from the produce of their little fields ; 

 most of which have in them a full proportion of apple trees. Of the sar- 

 rasin, the most favourite object of cultivation, is made a great proportion 

 of their bread ; and, besides the potato, they have many sorts of the i?ras- 

 sica tribe, and haricots and other lentils in abundance. For the domestic 

 employ of the women, as well as for sale on a large scale, much flax and 

 some hemp are sown ; both of which, in the month of May, promised abund- 

 ant crops. This department has a large population, but it is not strikingly 

 visible. There is very little of distress apparent amongst the lower classes, 

 though it was said many young men had been allured to Paris by the offers 

 of employ on the public works; and the expenses of the government were 

 universally complained of. The fact is, France, like the rest of the world 

 which has been aroused from its state of lethargy, and gotten rid of some 

 of its ruinous and disgraceful ignorance, wants a cheap government. This 

 Louis Philip promised them, under the term " republican institutions," 

 when he was elevated to the throne in consequence of the revolution of 

 July, 1830. This promise, however, he has never fulfilled ; and France 

 is consequently dissatisfied, and Louis Philip's throne unstable. — John H. 

 Moggridge. Woodfield, Nov., 1831. 



New Method of training Hops in the Vosges. — M". Denis, member of the 

 Society of Agriculture of the Vosges, has published a treatise on the cul- 

 tivation o£ hops ; in which he recommends, from experience, the substi- 

 tution of iron wires for poles, for the training of the plant. These wires, 

 formed in pieces of about 3 ft. in length, and 

 joined together, so as to resemble a surveyor's 

 chain, are suspended horizontally between two 

 oak posts, placed at the extremities of the 

 lines of hops, and supported by wooden props 

 at regular intervals. The hops are conducted 

 by little rods to the iron chain, along which 

 they are trained. M. Denis computes that, by 

 his practice, about a fifth part of the original 

 cost of poles is saved. (Bulletin des Sciences 

 Agricoles.) We saw hops so trained on M. 

 Denis's farm at Roville in 1828. The crop 

 had been good, but it did not appear to us any 

 thing like the crops usually seen in England ; 

 nor do we think this mode of training at all 

 calculated to produce an equal quantity of sur- 

 face with the mode by perpendicular poles. 

 We would rather recommend a congeries of 

 perpendicular wires from one pole. ( fig. 27.) 

 — Cond. 

 Paris, Bee. 20. 1831. — Our markets have been better supplied with 

 both vegetables and fruit than I have known them for many years. The flowers 

 have been also abundant. A few days ago, I saw in the Marche aux Fleurs 

 the finest oleanders in bloom ; a thing not common at this season ; and 

 various species of Amaryllis, which, I was told, had not been forced. 

 Many trees have ripened their seeds ; such as the Anona triloba L. [Asi- 

 viina triloba Dunal] and Diospyros virginiana, in Cels's nursery; and, what 

 is more remarkable, Magnolia macrophylla, in the grounds of M. Soulange 

 Bodin, at Fromont, This establishment is in a very flourishing state, and 

 it is quite astonishing to see the numbers of rare or showy green-house 

 plants (such as Azalea indica, Cunningham^, Araucdna, &c.) which are 

 raised there from cuttings of the tender points of the shoots, or by herb- 

 aceous grafting of the same parts of the plants. As to camellias and 

 oranges, they are raised in quantities beyond number; Camellia muta- 

 bilis, a seedling from the same double red as was raised in the Traversi Gar- 

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