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weeping beech, and a tree of Castanea pumila, which bore fruit 

 this year for the first time. We have five kinds of Platanus, 

 one pendulous. Great use is made of the wood of P. occiden- 

 taUs by carvers. Liquid ambar imberbe has not yet flowered 

 here, but it is propagated by grafting on the L. styraciflua. 



Our largest male salisburia is 24 ft. high, and flowers freely 

 every year. Our largest female plant is 8 ft. high, and has not 

 yet flowered. The deciduous cypress here is about 50 ft. high, 

 and it is covered every year with seed, which ripens well. A 

 quantity of protuberances grow at its roots, which are obliged to 

 be removed, to prevent them from obstructing the canal, on the 

 banks of which it is planted. Another tree, which is planted in 

 a deep clay soil, has grown to the height of 35 ft., the circumfe- 

 rence of the trunk being 42 in., and the space covered by the 

 bi'anches measuring 40 ft. This one has never produced any 

 protuberances. We have also a good collection of pines and 

 firs, many of which have attained a very considerable size. 



Art. III. Remarks on laying out Public Gardens and Promenades. 

 By the Conductor. 



By a public garden, we here mean a garden into which the 

 public are admitted, either gratuitously, or on the payment of 

 a small fee. Till within these few years, there have not been 

 many such public gardens or promenades in Britain, except 

 in the metropolis, though they have long been common on the 

 Continent. There is no town of any consequence in France or 

 Germany that has not either a regular enclosed garden, in 

 which flowers, as well as trees and shrubs, are cultivated, and 

 the gates of which are attended by keepers to exclude dogs, 

 &c. ; or a promenade, in which various kinds of trees and shrubs 

 are grown, and seats placed in different situations : and both, 

 sometimes, also contain temples or covered seats, as resting- 

 places, and cottages or pavilions as coffee-houses. The finest 

 public flower-garden in Germany is, unquestionably, that of 

 Frankfort; and the finest promenade garden on the Continent 

 is the English Garden at Munich. Gardens of both descrip- 

 tions are every where on the increase ; and, what will agreeably 

 surprise most of our readers, they are becoming numerous even 

 in Spain, as has been already stated (p. 631.), on the authority 

 of the interesting Sketches in Spai7i, lately published by Captain 

 Samuel Edward Cook. It is particularly gratifying to find, 

 throughout the Continent, that these gardens are, in many in- 

 stances, taking the place of the ramparts and fortifications of 

 towns ; a circumstance which we may regard as a sort of pledge 



