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merly let down at night, and during severe weather, to 

 protect the blossoms in spring. The walls, like almost all 

 garden walls in Germany, are covered with wooden trellis- 

 Work. The trees trained are partly peaches and apricots, 

 but chiefly the reinette de Canada apple. Trees of this, as 

 well as of" other varieties of apples, grow perfectly well in the 

 open air as standards; but the fruit is found to be much 

 larger when the tree is trained against a wall. In the borders 

 and quarters of the garden are pears en pyramide, and apples 

 en tonnoir. The most common apple cultivated in this gar- 

 den is the Rambourg, a large variety of Calville, known, 

 when shaken, by the rattling of its seeds in their cells. This 

 garden belongs to a ruined chateau, part of which is said to 

 have been built by the Romans 100 years before Christ. 

 There are about thirty such chateaux, with their gardens in 

 ruins, all belonging to the grand duke, in different parts of 

 the grand duchy of Baden, and all open to the public, who, 

 in fact, use them as their own ; a poor consolation for being 

 heavily taxed to keep them up. 



The celebrated Black Forest, in the duchy of Baden, though 

 once covered with wood, is now, for the greater part, bare. 

 Two districts of forest which still remain consist, the one 

 chiefly of silver and spruce firs and pines, and ihe other of 

 oaks ; some of the latter being of great size and age. (Vol. IV. 

 p. 4-92.) A plantation of Pinus rubra was made in the park 

 at Carlsruhe: the trees were, in 1828, thirty years old, and 

 forty feet high; but whether their timber is superior to that 

 of Pinus sylvestris remains to be proved. The Quercus 

 pedunculata and sessiliflora are here believed to be varieties 

 of the same species, Quercus i?6bur. Quercus pedunculata 

 is said to be more abundant on moist ground ; for instance, 

 on the borders of the Rhine. In the woods of Carlsruhe, 

 which form part of the forest of Hartwald, both sorts produce 

 equally tall, straight, sound, and durable timber. The oak 

 grows at Carlsruhe with very great luxuriance ; and it is not 

 uncommon to find leaves from twelve to fourteen inches long, 

 and from six to eight inches broad. A superior variety of 

 the Pinus sylvestris is grown on the Rhine, about Rastadt, 

 on the German side, and near Hagenau, on that of France. 

 Seeds are sent to various parts of Europe from seedsmen in 

 Rastadt and Hagenau. 



( To be continued.') 



