THE 



GARDENER S MAGAZINE, 



APRIL, 1833. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notes and Reflections made during a Tour through Part 

 of France and Germany, in the Autumn of the Year 1828. By 

 the Conductor. 



{Continued fror)i Vol. VII. p. 264.) 



Having completed the general results of our late British 

 tour, before we recur to its details, we shall complete our 

 Continental notes, made in 1828 and 1829; and, as the time 

 is now so long gone by, we shall greatly shorten them. 



In our last we were proceeding to examine the principal 

 market-gardens, and had noticed those of Cadet de Mars, 

 and the fig gardens at Argenteuil. We visited a great num- 

 ber of others in every direction in the neighbourhood of 

 Paris, but we cannot now take time to describe them. We 

 were much gratified by the cherry gardens in the Vale of 

 Montmorency, over which we were conducted by Baron 

 Hamelin, an enthusiastic collector of exotic bulbs. The 

 cherry trees are thinly scattered over the surface ; sometimes 

 in rows, and sometimes irregularly; and on the ground are 

 cultivated vines, and between these potatoes and other vege- 

 tables. The cultivation is careful, in point of stirring the soil 

 and manuring it, but there is a want of regularity and neat- 

 ness, which is probably owing to the entire absence of fences 

 and of regular paths. Where deaths occur in the lines of 

 vines, it does not appear that they are regularly filled up. 

 An English artist admired the effect of this, as rendering the 

 scenery most picturesque ; of which, as a proof, he furnished 



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