Foreign Notices: — France. 463 



ticulturist at Hieres, has published some curious observations on the inten- 

 sity of the last winter's frost, and on the damage which it has caused in 

 Provence. The frost commenced December 26. The thermometer already 

 indicated 2° below zero ; on the 29th, it fell to 5° ; and on the 31st, to 4i° : 

 there was then a little snow, which lasted three days. The frost diminished to 

 the 1st of January; and, from the 6th to the 10th, the weather set in fair, 

 and continued so until the 23d of March. The frost then returned, and there 

 was tolerably thick ice. On the 10th of April, there was snow still seen on 

 the mountains, at three leagues from Hieres. At Hieres, the lemon trees, 

 the bergamottes, the citron tree, the great lemon, the mellarossa, the 

 lumies, limes, &c., all suffered so much, that it was necessary to cut them 

 down to the roots. Among the exotics which perished, are noticed the Echi- 

 nus candicans, Clethra arborea, Yisnea Mocmiera, Jcacia lophantha, Cassia 

 tomentosa, Phlomis Leonurus, Eucalyptus diversifolia and obliqua, iS'olanum 

 ^etaceum, Grewz'a orientalis, JLinum trigynum, Cinerai'ia platanifolia, i^icus 

 elastica, and all the date trees from the age of three to six years. The Ery- 

 thrina Crista-galli also died, as well as the climbing plants trained against the 

 walls ; such as the Tecoma capensis, Jasminun; grandiflorum and azoricum, 

 Cobce^a scandens, Phaseolus Caracdlla, and Z)61ichos lignosus. The Casuarina 

 fquisetifolia, Melaleuca linarifolia, iVerium splendens and album, and iSchinus 

 Molle, scarcely suiFered at all ; but the young plants of these latter mentioned 

 were completely killed. 



The bamboo, the Acacia farnesiana, Pittosporum nanum, iSalvia formoea 

 and mexicana, /iS'olanum auriculatum, the guava (Psidium pyriferum), and 

 Brugmansza suaveolens, nearly all died. As for Acacia latifolia, -ffiblscus 

 mutabilis, Lantana Sellowz, Citrus bizzaria and ??zyrtif61ia, they scarcely suffered 

 at all. 



The tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke, which are harvested generally in 

 January and February, were frozen. Usually, they sell at 10 or 15 centimes the 

 dozen j but there are so few this year, that they are 1 franc 80 centimes the 

 dozen. 



The following plants escaped without suffering any injury : — Menispermura 

 /aurifolium, Cistus creticus, Buddlea salvifolia, Ceanothus casruleus, Fiburnum 

 sinense. Cassia corymbosa, ZJaphne Delphfnii, Hakea australis, Acacia flori- 

 bunda. Yucca aloifolia and gloriosa, ilfyrtus communis j36re pleno, Tarentina 

 variegata, Nandina domestica, Eriobotrya japonica, Corrae^a alba, OMea fra- 

 grans, Phormium tenax, Convolvulus oleaefolius, C. Cneorum, and Andropogon 

 squarrosum, cultivated in the open field, which, on the 6th of April, were 

 visibly growing. 



At Toulon, the winter was more destructive than at Hieres. Many vege- 

 tables, which resisted the cold at Hieres, died in the Botanic Garden of the 

 former town. 



At Draguignan, Trans-Brignolles, places situated fifteen leagues from the 

 sea, the thermometer fell to 70°, and some olive trees were damaged : but this 

 tree can support 8° of cold. 



To conclude, at Nice they had snow for eight days. The oranges were 

 frozen upon the trees; but the trees themselves did not suffer; only some feet 

 of lemons, bergamottes, and lumies (kinds of Citrus), were a little hurt. M. 

 Rantonnet saw there, in the governor's garden, on the 5th of January, a 

 coboea covered with fruit and flowers. {L E'cho du Monde Savant.) 



Paris, April 9. — My journey on the Continent having taken up more time 

 than I anticipated, I shall be unable to pass through England on my return 

 home, as I intended when I left London. I went from Holland (by the 

 Rhine), through Prussia and Baden, to Geneva, and found Switzerland much 

 better cultivated than I expected. The peculiarity, and, I may say, the ex- 

 cellency, of the agriculture in that country consists in good ploughing, great 

 care, judicious application of manure on the crops, and inugation of meadows 

 and pasture grounds. I found France, also, much better cultivated than I 

 had a right to expect, from the article I read in a late number of the Edinburgh 



