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piece of alluvial soil, left by the Iser, and partly on a high 

 bank. There is no house ; but when Louis Sckell laid out 

 the grounds, he did so with a view to a situation, on which it 

 is supposed the son of the present count will build. In the 

 mean time, the kitchen-garden and forcing-ground here are 

 the most celebrated of the private gardens about Munich for 

 showy flowers. Pine-apples are also grown in considerable 

 quantity, and every description of forcing is practised. There 

 is a good collection of orange and lemon trees ; two hundred 

 sorts of Pelargonium; five species and twenty varieties of 

 Cineraria ; a genus which seems to sport here as much as 

 ^rassica or Georgina. Bulbs are forced very early in this 

 garden ; and iWs chinensis is much valued for the same 

 purpose. Knoll, or bulbous-rooted, celery is grown here 

 and in the other kitchen-gardens about Munich, to the utter 

 exclusion of the common celery. Mignonette is grown, 

 throughout the winter, in pits ; and also /beris umbeliata, 

 which, when turned out of the pots, in spring, attains a large 

 size in the open border. There are seventeen sorts of Chrys- 

 anthemum sinense, eighty sorts of stocks, and a number of 

 varieties of China roses. Among the conspicuous plants of 

 the green-house are Lavandula multifida and Leonotis Leo- 

 nijrus. The fruit trees here are all named ; and, every 

 autumn, their stems are rubbed over with tallow mixed with 

 bruised gunpowder, which is found to keep away the hares. 

 Count Monteglas, though at present not in favour at court, 

 is considered the regenerator of Bavaria; having, after the 

 breaking out of the French revolution, been the first German 

 minister who induced his government to abolish monastic 

 institutions, and to appropriate the estates belonging to them 

 to the use of the government, and for the maintenance of a 

 national system of education ; and also to establish a repre- 

 sentative system of government. We brought home with us an 

 excellent portrait of this enlightened and benevolent nobleman. 

 The garden of the Prince of Tour and Taxis, at Ratis- 

 bon, is laid out in what is there considered the English 

 manner, and is not without some agreeable glades and points 

 of view. There is a handsome pavilion, as a substitute for a 

 mansion, with two wings, which serve at the same time as 

 apartments for receiving company, giving fetes, and preserv- 

 ing plants. One of these wings is heated to the temperature 

 of the tropics, and contains palms, scitamineous plants, the 

 bamboo, orchideous epiphytes, &c. ; the other contains 

 orange trees, camellias, and Chinese, Japan, Cape, and Aus- 

 tralian plants. On entering the grounds, a board, elevated 

 on a post, invites all to enter and enjoy themselves who 



