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and barometers; and to paint several pictures of fruits and 

 flowers, and make frames for them. He is an excellent cabinet- 

 maker and joiner, and a theoretical as well as practical astrono- 

 mer. He has contrived, out of his savings, to collect a tolerable 

 library, including Hutton's Mathematical Dictionary in quarto. 



There is one fine circumstance connected with Tottenham 

 Park, which deserves to be mentioned for the credit of its liberal 

 and benevolent lord. It is open at all times to the inhabitants 

 of the surrounding towns ; who drive, ride, or make gipsy- 

 parties in it at pleasure. 



{To be continued?) 



Art. II. Notes made during a Professional Journey through Bel- 

 gium and Part of France, for the House of Messrs. Loiv and 

 Company, Nurserymen, Clapton, in March and April, 1834. By 

 Mr. William Garvie, Foreman in the Clapton Nursery. 



{Continued from p. 362.) 



Antwerp. — The nursery gardens here are neither numerous 

 nor of much importance. It is difficult to say who has the best. 

 M. Moeris excels, decidedly, in camellias, which he cultivates 

 successfully and in great quantities. He has appropriated a 

 large house to plants of the most esteemed varieties, which are 

 planted into the free soil ; and he has, besides, a great many 

 seedlings, from which he expects great things. One of these 

 appeared to me to promise well ; but the blossom was not suf- 

 ficiently expanded for me to speak of it decidedly. Of other 

 plants he has but few, and those are not well cultivated. 



M. van Geert has commenced a promising nursery at a short 

 distance from the town ; and, from the situation of the place, 

 and the apparent spirit of its occupier, I have little doubt that 

 it will succeed well. The general stagnation of trade in this 

 quarter, at the time of M. van Geert's commencing, gave him a 

 severe trial ; but, since peace has been restored, he finds things 

 going on more favourably. 



There are also many market-gardens ; but, like those of 

 Ghent, little or no taste is displayed either in the laying out or 

 the keeping of them. 



There is a botanic garden at Antwerp ; but it is very small. 

 It contains several small plant-houses, principally for tropical 

 plants, which are generally in very bad condition. There are, 

 however, some good specimens of those species of plants which 

 have been long introduced to the collections of Europe; but not 

 any of the newly introduced ones. The green-house plants were 

 still worse than those in the stove, if worse could be ; as there 



