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of opinion that there are more garden seeds raised in the 

 neighbourhood of Nuremburg than there is round any other 

 city in Europe, and that the next greatest quantity is grown 

 in the neighbourhood of Erfurth. The seeds are grown for 

 the dealers by a particular description of cultivators, who 

 answer to the seed-farmers of England. 



Before proceeding to notice the state of agriculture in 

 Bavaria, we shall here give a general outline of the system by 

 which the whole of the royal, or government, gardens are 

 managed. In the first place, there is a government officer, 

 bearing the title of director-general of gardens, who has an 

 office, consisting of several rooms, in a building in Munich, 

 containing other government offices. The present director- 

 general is M. Charles Sckell, nephew to the late Chevalier 

 Louis Sckell, author of an excellent work on landscape-gar- 

 dening, and father of that department of our art in Bavaria. 

 In M. Sckell's office is a clerk or secretary, and a draughtsman. 

 In this office there are plans of all the royal and government 

 gardens and nurseries on a large scale, with a manuscript 

 volume belonging to each plan ; in which is kept, by the 

 secretary, a regular account, or journal, of all that passes 

 between the director-general and the intendant of the par- 

 ticular plan or garden, whether in regard to orders given, 

 work done, produce disposed of, or repairs, alterations, &c. 

 There is also an excellent library, chiefly of books on land- 

 scape-gardening and rural architecture, and a complete set of 

 instruments for surveying, mapping, drawing, &c. The 

 director-general has also a book for himself, in which he 

 enters a short abstract of all his transactions, referring to the 

 other books for details. For example, suppose on this '2,9\h. 

 of June the director wrote a letter to the manager of the nur- 

 sery at Schleissheim, he would make an entry in his own book 

 thus : — " June 29th. Wrote to M. B. at Schleissheim as to 

 repairing the outer gate: see S. J. (Schleissheim Journal), 

 p. 1020." At that page of the Schleissheim Journal would 

 be found a copy of the letter sent, and before it a copy of the 

 correspondence, or an account of the transactions, which led 

 to the writing of that letter. 



To each of the public gardens or government nurseries 

 there is an intendant, or manager, who has also his office, 

 containing a good garden library, a tool and seed room ad- 

 joining, in which garden instruments, such as knives, saws, 

 hedge-bills, &c., and seeds are kept; as well as various other 

 garden articles, not suitable for being placed in the open sheds. 

 The principal piece of furniture is a desk, in which is kept a 

 large manuscript book for entering all the correspondence 



