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timber is sent to Paris, from the country around Nanci, for 

 the use of the house-carpenter. It is the wood of the Quercus 

 pedunculata of Lamarck, which grows to a large tree, with 

 a straight well-proportioned trunk. It differs from the 

 Quercus sessiliflora, by its pedunculated acorns, and by its 

 wood being of a less specific gravity. Its wood is less knotty, 

 for which reason it is preferred for several kinds of work. It 

 is said that the wood of the Quercus pedunculata is more sub- 

 ject to dry rot than that of Q. sessiliflora. The term merrain 

 means oak wood split into cask staves. 



At Thann, the Colchicum autumnale abounds in the mea- 

 dows, but the cows never touch it. [The case is the same in 

 the meadows at Hawstead, and other villages near Bury St. 

 Edmunds. — J. D.~\ The stalks of hemp, after being stripped 

 of the outside fibre, are used in some part of Franche-Comte 

 to make sulphur matches. " On some of the rocky calca- 

 reous hills at Besan^on there grows a great deal of box ; and 

 at St. Claude, fifty miles to the south, boxwood is wrought 

 into various articles. Box occurs in Franche-Comte, the 

 Jura, Dauphine, the Pyrenees, where Ramond remarks that 

 it is found in the great valleys as far up as the height of about 

 6000 ft. ; but he observes that it does not extend into the 

 collateral valleys. It grows in the Levant, from which we 

 import the wood under the name of Turkey box ; and like- 

 wise in Italy and Spain. One of its most northerly stations 

 is Boxhill, near Dorking, in Surrey, where it grows luxuri- 

 antly on a chalky soil. Dwarf box, such as is used for edg- 

 ings, is indigenous on chalk rocks in the barren soil of 

 Champagne." 



The fruit of the Cratae^gus torminalis is sold in the market 

 at Besan9on. " Between Chartres and Nogent le Rotru, 

 whin hedges appear. They are cut every three years, and 

 used as fuel for bakers' ovens. The young shoots are bruised 

 and given to cattle. Whin hedges are frequent also in 

 Guernsey, where they are likewise cut for fuel. At Le Mans, 

 a kind of kale, 6 ft. high, is cultivated in gardens." 



The pomegranate ripens its fruit in the open air at Tours, 

 where the ^rundo Z)onax grows 12 ft. high. The botanic 

 garden at Angers is " neatly laid out with walks and shrub- 

 beries, in the irregular or English style, ^'triplex ^alimus 

 is employed to form hedges of 3 ft. high in the garden. The 

 plant bears clipping, and retains its leaves during winter, so 

 as to form a handsome low hedge. It is indigenous to some 

 parts of the sea-coast of France. Photinia glabra grows well 

 as a standard here. Eriobotrya japonica was in flower in the 

 open air, 20th December. The stone pine (Pinus Pinea) 



