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and, like the Carlisle codling, coming early into use both for 

 sauce and eating, is a great favourite with Mr. Allnatt; and the 

 trees are now, as they are every year, covered with abundance of 

 fruit. (See Ency. of Gard., §4803. new edit.) We had almost 

 forgotten to express our admiration of a long straight walk, bor- 

 dered on each side with a row of China asters, and beyond these 

 by three rows of georginas, the first row dwarfs, the second 

 higher, and the third highest ; also of dung hot-beds, the sides of 

 which were thatched with drawn rye straw, kept close to the 

 dung with rods and hooks, in order to prevent the escape of 

 heat and moisture, to exclude the external rains, and to produce 

 a neat appearance. 



The Garden of Clarice, Esq., contains a superb collection 



of seedling georginas; an assortment of heartseases, and a good 

 collection of heaths. Mr. Clarke is an enthusiastic cultivator of 

 the first-named flower, and grows heaths far better than any 

 person whom we have seen between Wallingford and Slough. 

 Altogether, he is a most enthusiastic florist, and a fit cooperator 

 with Mr. Allnatt, jun., and Mr. Tyso. 



(To be continued,} 



Art. II. A short Account of a late Journey through Belgium and 

 Part of France in the Autumn of J 833, by Joseph Knight, Esq. 

 F.H.S. Communicated by Mr. Knight. 



Sir, 



According to your request, I now endeavour to give you a short 

 account of my late journey through Belgium and part of France. 

 As horticulture is not in so advanced a state in those countries 

 as in England, I directed my attention to various other subjects 

 as they came in my way. 



I left home on the 1 1 th of October, by way of Dover and 

 Calais. Near the latter place, the land is barren, sandy, and 

 neglected. Near Gravelines the soil improves, and continues to 

 do so on to Dunkirk, where it varies. From thence to Burg, we 

 found chiefly very rich grazing land. The farmers are indus- 

 trious, but poor. The pigs and sheep are of a long-legged 

 bony description ; the cows and horses are tolerable ; the imple- 

 ments of husbandry are heavy and inconvenient ; the poultry 

 is abundant. We next ascended to Mont Cassel, a small town 

 considerably elevated, from which the prospect over an extensive 

 country is very fine and picturesque : the neighbourhood is much 

 undulated, wooded, and interesting to the traveller. 



On the road to Poperingen, the land is rich, crops various, con- 

 sisting of wheat, beans, rape, with mangold wiirzel, grass, and 

 wood: the latter consists of alder, willow, poplar, elm, &c., 

 chiefly planted in rows and by the roadside, at from 10 ft. to 15 ft. 



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