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come without clogs, and who are lovers and friends of nature. 

 On the whole, these grounds may be considered as a delight- 

 ful public garden for the inhabitants of Ratisbon. 



The gardens of Baron Wohnlich, at Augsburg, are not 

 extensive, but they contain a considerable variety in the dis- 

 position of the parts, and in the trees and shrubs. There is 

 also a collection of Cape and Australian plants, and some 

 good orange trees. 



The gardens of Madame Heppe, at Nuremburg, are the 

 richest in Bavaria in botanical interest, next to those of the 

 king, at Munich. They contain only five or six acres, but 

 these are full of fine plants. Madame Heppe, who is a lady of 

 considerable wealth, devotes the whole of her time, and the 

 greater part of her fortune, to botany and gardening. She 

 has seen all the principal gardens on the Continent, and 

 makes annual excursions to wherever she hears there is any 

 chance of procuring an addition to her collection. The 

 garden is laid out in the regular style; and contains, besides 

 botanical collections, in the open ground, spaces devoted to 

 showy flowers, collections of fruit trees, culinary vegetables, 

 a hop-ground, two large green-houses, a large stove, numerous 

 pits and frames, and the upper part of a house for the pre- 

 servation of plants of rosemary, which is the only garden 

 article sold by Madame Heppe, and for which there is a 

 great demand in Nuremburg, during the winter season, for 

 religious purposes. We observed here a good collection of 

 gooseberries, a thing rare in Germany ; and an arcade of 

 lime trees, terminating in a perspective view of the estate of 

 Madame Heppe, near Wurtzburg. Madame Heppe pursues 

 the very commendable practice of every year trying to accli- 

 matise a number of green-house plants; and she was the first 

 in this part of Germany to find that Caprifolium flexuosum 

 was quite hardy. 



Suburban Garde?is at 'Nuremburg. — The garden of M. Wiss 

 contains six or seven acres of varied surface, with a large 

 lake and an island surrounded by banks, planted with trees, 

 and intersected by walks, from a plan of Charles Sckell. 

 The garden of M. Beitelmeyer forms a striking contrast to 

 that of M. Wiss, being laid out in the French style, and, 

 indeed, consisting almost entirely of small circles surrounded 

 by box; each circle containing a lime tree in the centre, 

 clipped to a conical shape, and underneath displaying a 

 variety of low shrubs and flowers. Nothing could exhibit 

 greater sameness than the general plan ; but every circle, in- 

 dividually, was full of beauty. We were informed that this 

 garden is kept up at a great expense; the plants, which do 



