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Notes a7id Rejlectiojis during a Tour : — 



us with a sketch, which we have had engraved, (^g- 20.) It 

 may be very picturesque, but it is certainly not gardenesque. 



The best pine-apples which we saw in the market-gardens 

 of Paris were those grown in pits by M. Decouffle, M. Gal- 

 lois, and M. Marie. The latter gardener takes the glass off 

 his pits, night and day, during three months in summer ; the 

 leaves of the plants assume a rusty reddish hue in conse- 

 quence, and they grow slowly, but they are much better able 

 to stand the winter. 



Mushrooms, in the neighbourhood of Paris, are cultivated 

 deep under ground, in the caverns formed by the exhausted 

 lime quarries. These quarries are not generally open to the 

 day, as in Britain. They are worked more like coal-pits, 

 and the stones are brought to the surface, up a cylindrical 

 well or shaft, by means of windlasses, turned by large vertical 

 wooden wheels. (j%. 21.) When the quarry is exhausted, 



and the bottom is not springy, or liable to be filled with water, 

 it is let to a mushroom-grower, who generally contrives to 



