Present State of Gardening in Sweden. %X5 



ation. It has naturally the most severe climate of all of the 

 German states, and yet it is decidedly far before any of them 

 in gardening, and before most, if not all, in agriculture and 

 cottage economy. Before the French revolution, it was sunk 

 in ignorance and superstition to a greater degree than any of 

 the German states, but it is now equal to the first of them 

 in point of intelligence, moral worth, and happiness. 



{To be continued.) 



Art. II. Notices of the present State of Gardening in Sweden, 

 by Professor Agardh of Lund ; 'with a Plan of the Botanic 

 Garden of Lund, communicated by M. Petersen, of the 

 Royal Gardens, Copenhagen. 



[Professor Agardh, with whom we have corresponded 

 for some years, having called on us at Bayswater during his 

 late visit to England, we took the opportunity of showing 

 him the pages of our Enci/clopcedia of Gardening which relate 

 to the history of gardening in Sweden. These he took 

 home with him, and returned them in a day or two with 

 the following letter, which we give in the professor's own 

 words ; and cannot refrain, at the same time, from expressing 

 our astonishment and admiration that a foreigner who, as he 

 told us, had taught himself our language entirely from books, 

 should be able, not only to speak it, but to write it, with so 

 much correctness, and even eloquence.] 



Sir, 

 In the middle of the last century, gardening was in high 

 repute in Sweden. The nobility, especially those of the 

 southern province, Scania, or, as you call it, Schonen, pa- 

 tronised it in all its branches, and sent young gardeners to 

 Holland, in order that they might there perfect themselves in 

 their art. This was partly owing to the practical direction 

 which at that time all sciences had taken in Sweden, and 

 partly to the spirit of the government ; it then being in the 

 hands of the political party generally called " Hats," whose 

 grand object was to animate the industry and encourage the 

 productions of the country. But that party having been, 

 about the year 1766, overpowered by another party, called 

 the " Bonnets," whose chief object was the saving of money, 

 and, finally, liberty totally vanishing by the revolution of 

 1772, gardening, like all other industrious occupations, by 

 degrees died away, and is now only perceptible in the few 



