Architectural Town Garden. 



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houses. Not only botany, he says, but many of the opera- 

 tions of gardening, such as planting, sowing, grafting, strik- 

 ing by cuttings, pruning, training, &c., may be thus taught, 

 so as to give persons who pass their youth in towns, in ac- 

 quiring an independency, such a knowledge of country matters 

 as may lead them to retire there, when the objects of their 

 industry have been obtained. There are also town gardens 

 entirely of an architectural character. One of the hand- 

 somest of these which we happened to see was that of a 

 young architect, who unfortunately spent his whole fortune in 

 creating it. The garden was in a dilapidated state ; but the 

 house {Jig. 40.) was in tolerable repair. 



One of the most beautiful Villas in the Neighbourhood of 

 Paris, as far as regards general scenery, and views beyond 

 the boundary, is the park of M. Ternaux, at St. Ouen. 

 {Jtg' 41.) The proprietor is well known as a manufacturer, 

 an agriculturist, and an enlightened and philanthropic man. 

 He is highly esteemed by us, not only as a man of taste, but 



