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cimens, in alphabetical order, and handsomely named on 

 wooden tallies, of all the hardy forest and fruit trees and 

 shrubs cultivated. The principal part of the trees planted 

 along the public roads are supplied from this nursery : they are 

 generally from twelve to eighteen feet high. After being taken 

 up, they are carried to a shed, and pruned, and afterwards 

 placed in a cellar, to protect them from the frost till wanted. 

 Shrubs of the more tender kinds are taken up and planted in 

 earth in cellars ; where they remain till spring, when they 

 ai'e sent to their final destination. The principal object in 

 removing the trees before they are wanted for the plantations 

 is, to prevent the interruption of the labours and cropping of 

 the nursery in the spring : every thing in this, as in the other 

 departments of national gardening in Germany, going on in 

 the most systematic and scientific manner. 



The nursery of M. Falcke, at Nuremburg, is situated in 

 the town ; but it contains a number of select plants in pits. 

 In November, 1828, we found a frame of ranunculus, and 

 another of anemone, in full flower ; in a green-house. Cam- 

 panula pyramidalis, twelve feet high, and covered with blos- 

 soms ; sixty sorts of pelargoniums, fifteen sorts of Camellm, 

 and twelve sorts of Chrysanthemum. The green-house plants 

 were chiefly those of the Cape : but even in England they 

 would have been considered a respectable collection. In the 

 frames were 300 sorts of carnations; no pinks, which are 

 little cultivated in Germany; 140 sorts of auriculas; with 

 stocks, many sorts in flower; violets, mignonette, &c. In a 

 cellar under the seedshop, among barrels of beer, tubs of 

 sauer-Jcraut, and piles of apples and potatoes, covered with 

 straw, we found cabbages, endive, and broccoli planted in 

 earth ; pomegranates, figs, and Althaea frutex in tubs, and 

 1000 pots of Hydrangea. M. Falcke deals chiefly in seeds, 

 and has another garden, or rather large field, at some dis- 

 tance from Nuremburg, where these and other commoner 

 nursery articles are grown in large quantities. The soil for 

 some miles round Nuremburg is a warm dry sand, and it is 

 almost wholly occupied in the growth of garden seeds, which 

 are sent to all parts of Germany and the north of Europe, 

 and to France, England, and Turkey. Clover seeds are 

 here raised in large quantities, and even the seeds of tobacco 

 and asparagus. What is remarkable (considering the climate) 

 is, that large quantities of tuberoses, tiger flowers, hyacinths, 

 narcissi of different kinds, Amaryllis formosissima, and 

 Guernsey lily, are grown to a great extent in this warm sand. 

 In the year 1827, M. Falcke sent 2800 double tuberoses to 

 one house in Petersburgh. He sends a great quantity of 

 seeds annually to Spain and Portugal. On the whole, he is 



