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may enjoy the scene from a broad terrace which is over the colonnade, and 

 which affords a fine view, not only of the garden, but also of the surround- 

 ing country. On the other side of the building are winding walks, in the 

 manner of a labyrinth, and the endeavours of some to extricate themselves 



afford much amusement to the spectators fromthe terrace. In the evening 

 the whole place is brilliantly illuminated with various coloured lights, which 

 have a most pleasing effect, and occasionally the amusements of the day 

 are terminated with a display of fireworks. — C. R. Dec. 1831. 



Munich. — Some forcing-houses in the royal kitchen-gardens at Munich 

 have been heated by hot water, on the level circulation principle, from the 

 plan of the chief garden inspector, M. Sckell, who has published a plan of 

 the houses heated, and of his apparatus, in a quarto pamphlet, now before 

 us. He notices the mode of heating by the common German stove, to be 

 seen in every inn and post-house north of the Rhine ; by flues, as in hot- 

 houses in England; by steam, which has been treated of by Seidl, Otto, 

 and Schram, in the Berlin Horticultural Transactions for 1827 ; and, lastly, 

 by hot water. He gives the history of this mode from facts which it is 

 impossible he can have obtained any where else than from the Gardener's 

 Magazine, which we regularly send him in exchange for certain Munich 

 publications ; and yet he has not once mentioned that publication, or 

 referred to any source from which he obtained his facts. We do not state 

 this in the spirit of finding fault ; because, as far at least as gardening and 

 agriculture are concerned, it seems to be the general practice of the German 

 authors, and indeed of those of the Continent generally. Hence it is that 

 articles and curious facts which have been stated for the first time in an 

 English publication, are not unfrequently translated into some Continental 

 publication, and again translated into English, and published as novelties, 

 in some of our journals, with the name of the foreign paper appended as an 

 authority. Almost every Literary Gazette and New Monthly Magazine 

 contains paragraphs of this description, not a few of which are from the 

 Gardener's Magazine. We may instance the article in our first Number, 

 on washing salads in salt water, which was unnoticed by any paper in 

 England, as far as we observed, till it was retranslated from the French ; 

 after which, having appeared in the Literary Gazette, it made the tour of 

 Europe and America. One of the latest Literary Gazettes which we have 

 seen contains " Growing potatoes in a cellar, from a German paper," a 

 mode which appeared several years since in our Encyclopaedia of Garden- 

 ing, 2d edit. p. 594, 595. The same article was inserted in the Bulletin des 

 Sciences Agricoles some months ago, and also in Moleon's Receuil Industriel. 

 We find no fault with any of the parties ; we merely state the facts, to account 



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