State of Gardening in Part of France. 225 



By this means their growth is accelerated ; and they produce 

 good crops about the end of October or the beginning of No- 

 vember ; at which time they are taken up, and buried in the 

 ground in holes lined with straw to keep out frosts, and are used 

 during winter as they are wanted. 



The Turnips here are small, but very well tasted ; and, after 

 they have been well chopped up into small pieces, the farmers 

 feed their cows upon them during winter. 



Endive, particularly the curled kinds, is grown very fine here 

 during the winter; and, in the raising and growing of winter 

 salads generally, the Ghent gardeners certainly surpass the 

 English, as well as in all kinds of winter forcing. They grow 

 their winter salads upon hot-beds made of dung and leaves ; 

 which keep up a low but a prolonged temperature better than 

 one made of dung alone; and, from the dryness of the atmo- 

 sphere, they seldom if ever lose their plants from damp. 



I have never seen fine Cos lettuce in this country ; the soil and 

 dryness causing them all to run to seed : whereas the cabbage 

 lettuce grows very fine, particularly such as are forced durino- 

 winter. 



Cauliflowers and broccolis are another kind of vegetables which 

 fail completely in .this sandy soil ; they are neither so large nor 

 close-headed as those grown in England. Give them as rich a 

 soil as you please, and yet they will not succeed : they want 

 loam, which is not to be found here. 



Art. II. Notices of the State of Gardening in Part of France, as 

 observed during an Excursion in that Cou7itry in the Months of April 

 and May, 1834. By Mr. George Charlwood, Seedsman, Covent 

 Garden. 



(^Continued from Vol. X. p. 477.) 



The country beyond Amiens, on the road to Paris, is of the 

 same open champaign nature as before mentioned ; scarcely a 

 hedgerow or any marked division of the land is to be observed. 

 But few regular orchards are to be seen, though the roads, for 

 miles together, are lined by apple trees ; the apples altogether 

 the cider varieties ; with occasional rows by the side of a road 

 leading off from the main road to some chateau observed in the 

 distance, about which may be seen some acres of woodland, 

 which appears to be preserved with great care and attention, as 

 the most important and profitable part of the property. Here 

 it may not be amiss to remark the difference between France 

 and England in the mode of communication, which, in the 

 former, is almost exclusively confined to the public chaussee or 



