268 Nok'S and Reflections dnrhig a Tour : — 



are enclosed in broad flat glass phials, named, and placed on 

 narrow shelves, in the order of the Linnsean system. There 

 is a separate set of specimens of culinary seeds, named, and 

 covered with a glass case ; and also a set of forest-tree seeds. 

 The different sorts of kidneybeans are placed on a board 

 divided into small squares, like a draught-board. 



In Badeti horticulture is far advanced. The kitchen- 

 garden of the palace at Carlsruhe contains five or six acres, 

 and appeared to us, in November, 1 822, to be well managed. 

 The pines are grown in pits in the summer time, and re- 

 moved to shelves, in houses with opaque roofs and nearly 

 perpendicular front glass, in the winter time. On the 28th 

 of November the pines were still chiefly in the pits, and a 

 great many had ripe fruit. They are generally taken in on 

 the 1st of December, and taken out again on the 1st of 

 March. About 300 ripe pines are used every year for the 

 purpose of making wine, which is found to be of an extra- 

 ordinarily good quality : and four hundred are annually cut 

 for eating. There are pines on the grand duke's table every 

 week in the year. The plants are grown in soil composed of 

 two parts of mould formed from rotten dung and leaves, one 

 part and a half of turf from a meadow, broken into small 

 pieces, but not sifted, and half a part of sand. Fruiting is 

 not effected in a shorter period than three years. Figs are 

 grown here under glass, for the purpose of forcing; but 

 they, and also peaches, bear in the open air as standards. 

 There is a large winter house, in which we found large knoll 

 celery, kohl-rabi, cauliflower, Italian broccoli ; red, green, 

 chard, and white beet ; large black radishes, scorzonera, 

 parsley, leeks, endive, lettuce, lamb lettuce, and other articles, 

 in large quantities, planted in beds of earth. Young carrots 

 and young turnips are grown all the winter, in pits covered 

 with glass, and protected from the fiost every night by straw 

 mats. These articles, with young onions and leeks, are 

 gathered almost every day during the winter for soups. The 

 varieties of kohl-rabi, borecole, and runkel riiben (green beet) 

 grown in this garden are among the most beautiful that we 

 have seen in Germany. Mushrooms are grown in frames 

 with boards instead of sashes, with dung linings, and under 

 the stages of the pine-stoves. 



The Kitchen-Garden of the old Castle ofEttlingen is worthy 

 of notice. It contains eight or ten acres, surrounded and 

 subdivided by walls of stone about twelve feet high, with 

 rafters laid under the coping six feet apart, and projecting on 

 each side about two feet. These projections are for the pur- 

 pose of retaining rolls of strong matting, which were for- 



