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use of walks is a lesson taught by almost every French garden ; 

 and not less so the use of depth of perspective in most views, 

 whether limited to the interior, or extending across the bound- 

 ary. In general, all that leads an artist to recognise and 

 appreciate the minds of others in their works, has a tendency 

 to lead him to infuse a superiority of mind into his own. 



In our next we shall take the gardens of Baden, and after- 

 wards those of Bavaria and Wirtemberg, which will complete 



our notes. 



(To be continued.') 



Art. II. A Jew Remarks on the State of Gardening in Loxver 

 Canada, and particularly in the Neighbourhood of Montreal. By 

 A. P. Hart, Esq., Barrister at Law, of Montreal, Lower Canada, 

 Fellow Mont. Nat. Hist. Soc. &c. 



Sir, 



On perusing, this morning, the 39th number of your in- 

 valuable magazine (Vol. VIII. p. 385.), I could not avoid re- 

 proaching my friend and client, Mr. Robert Cleghorn, one of 

 our most respectable nurserymen here, and the proprietor of 

 Blinkbonny Garden, near this city, for his laziness in allowing 

 39 numbers of the Gardener's Magazine to be published, 

 without contributing a single communication to it. To show 

 you that at least in Montreal we do not altogether neglect 

 horticulture, I threatened that if he did not bestir himself 

 I should be in the field before him ; and being confined to my 

 bed-room, of which I have been an inmate from illness for a 

 month back, I this evening thought that I could not better 

 employ my time than in giving you a slight sketch of the state 

 of horticulture in Lower Canada, and particularly in the 

 neighbourhood of Montreal, trusting that it may not prove 

 altogether uninteresting to your readers. 



Horticulture, far from being neglected, is very much at- 

 tended to, in Lower Canada, and particularly in Montreal ; 

 and no better proof can be adduced than our supporting 

 three or four large nurseries. It is true that we cannot 

 exhibit the gardens of private individuals containing ranges of 

 hot-houses, conservatories, &c., which cannot be supposed to 

 be common in a young country ; but we have our miniature 

 villas and gardens, which, though not of great extent, still 

 contain varieties of fruits, of flowers, and every species of 

 culinary vegetable. 



It has been very erroneously supposed, that, owing to the 

 shortness of our summers, and the extreme length and cold 



