464 Foreign Notices : — Germany. 



Review. The wheat especially in France, looks uncommonly fine. It appears 

 to me that France is emphatically a wheat country. Their mode of ploughing 

 on the Continent, as far as I have travelled, seems to me, however, to be any 

 thing but economical : it is the same as that I saw in some parts of England ; 

 that is, a wheel plough, and from three to five horses en suite. But the Swiss 

 and French farmers turn up a very good furrow ; the plough itself (aside from 

 its ridiculous appendages) being well adapted to its purpose. I really wish 

 it were proper for me to notice this ridiculous part of European husbandry 

 in a way it deserves. It is possible I may give it a passing notice on my return 

 to the United States. I regret exceedingly that I must forego the pleasure 

 of visiting London again, and spending a day or two with you. — A. D. 

 Spoor. 



'Nepenthes distillatoria. — A plant in a stove at Montmartre was observed to 

 have one of the pitchers half full of water, which the gardener, having tasted, 

 found sweet, with the flavour of honey. A statement of the fact was sent to 

 the Paris Horticultural Society, in August, 1837. {UE'cho du Monde Savant, 

 Aug. 5. 1837.) 



GERMANY. 



M. T'lsclike, son of the court gardener to the King of Saxony at the 

 Japan Palace, Dresden, is now in this country, and has already made a 

 general tour, including Scotland and Ireland, with the great advantage of 

 recommendations to the nobility and gentry, procured from the ambassador 

 of his country, resident in London. M. Tischke, like M. C. Rauch, M. F. 

 Rauch, M. Rosenthal, M. Antoine, and other German gardeners, lately or 

 now in England, has not only taken time to see all our best gardens, but has 

 taken pains to acquire a competent knowledge of the Enghsh language; 

 so that when he returns, by means of English books, he will always be able 

 to keep himself au fait at what is going forward in the gardening v/orld in 

 Britain. 



M. Wolf, the curator of the Botanic Garden of the Universifj/ of Witrtz- 

 hiirg, one of the most scientific gardeners, as Dr. Martius informs us, of the 

 south of Germany, has lately spent upwards of a month in this country, and 

 visited, in company with M. Antoine of Vienna, all the principal garden 

 establishments in the neighbourhood of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and 

 Dublin, as well as the botanic and horticultui'al gardens at Birmingham, 

 Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, and the gardens at Eaton Hall, Chats- 

 worth, Woburn Abbey, and various others. He returns home through 

 France and Belgium; and we hope to hear from him, from time to time, with 

 the gardening news of his country. 



M. Sckell, the director-general of gardens to the King of Bavaria, has 

 lately published a description of the royal gardens and pleasure-grounds under 

 his direction, accompanied by a beautifully lithographed plan of the gardens of 

 Nymphenburg, with all the latest improvements. 



Counsellor Vo7i Hazzi, who may be considered the father of modern agri- 

 culture in Bavaria, who was in England in the summer of 1836, has lately 

 published his Tour in this country, in two thin 8vo volumes. M. Hazzi is 

 a highly enlightened and benevolent man, and of the most unwearied activity 

 in the publication of works calculated to improve the agriculture and 

 domestic economy of his country. — Cond. 



Roller'' s History of Insects injurious to Cidtivators, and to the Pi-o]jrietors\ of 

 Forests and Plantations. — I rejoice at being able to send you a book which 

 will be the more interesting to you, and other horticulturists, as it contains an 

 elaborate account of insects injurious to vegetation, the injury they commit, 

 and the most practicable modes of destroying them ; for which a wish has 

 been expressed in several numbers of your Magazine. This work is the 

 joint labour of three gentlemen, who have great practical knowledge, and par- 

 ticularly M. Schmidberger, a priest of St. Florian, near Linz, who is one of 

 the first pomologists in Austria, and perhaps in Germany. Had I a little 



