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roof, containing a few Cape and Australian plants, with 

 some which are natives of the south of Europe, and which 

 stand the open air in England. Among these are the com- 

 mon and Portugal laurels, the laurustinus, the arbutus, &c. 



The garden of Michael August Stottner, at Nuremburg, 

 which occupies five or six acres, is celebrated for its collection 

 of pelargoniums, said to be the most extensive on the Con- 

 tinent. In 1829 the catalogue contained 430 names, with 

 their authorities. M. Stottner, who is a wealthy amateur, has, 

 with the assistance of M. Reider, a well known gardening 

 author at Nuremburg, commenced a work on Geraniacese 

 there, like that of Mr. Sweet. 



Floriculture, in the neighbourhood of Munich, is carried 

 to a far greater extent than will readily be imagined, when 

 the elevated situation and consequent severity of the climate 

 are taken into consideration. The ranunculus, the violet, the 

 hyacinth, and the narcissus are in bloom in the hot-houses of 

 the royal gardens throughout the winter ; and roses, honey- 

 suckles, lilacs, azaleas, rhododendrons, pinks, tulips, and 

 other shrubs and flowers, are forced as successfully, and come 

 as early into bloom, as in London. Chrysanthemums, in 

 small pots, and only a few inches high, are cultivated, and 

 forced, so as to be in bloom all the year. 



The early history of Horticulture in Bavaria has been 

 already given by a Bavarian gardener. (Vol. V. p. 385.) Its 

 present state is, in some respects, in advance of the art in 

 England. The preservation of culinary vegetables through 

 the winter is effected with wonderful success in the higher 

 parts of the country, and particularly about Munich. The 

 principal means made use of are, cellars deeply sunk in the 

 ground, in which the vegetables are planted on shelves of 

 earth ; coverings of straw mats, and of thick boards, for pits 

 and frames ; and opaque roofs, with coverings of straw mats, 

 for the front glass of hot-houses of every description. 



The royal kitchen-garden at Munich contains extensive 

 hot-houses and pits for forcing ; and on the walls are vines, 

 for the purpose of laying down the shoots to root into pots, 

 and afterwards to ripen their fruit under glass frames, as in 

 Holland and Denmark. Asparagus is here grown in the 

 open air, in double rows, with a space between, which is dug 

 out and filled with hot dung, while the plants are covered 

 with a wooden frame. An immense quantity of asparagus is 

 used by the royal family from December to February. All 

 the varieties of the cabbage tribe are here taken up on the 

 first approach of winter, and planted close together, in sheds 

 with glass fronts, the air within being kept at a moderate 



