662 Traite de la Composition^ <5c., des Jardins. 



At a former period there was an extensive Botanic Garden 

 here ; it was enclosed by a formidable stone wall, and I believe 

 was established by Governor White. This place now serves as 

 a pen for a herd of swine; which, with the exception of a few 

 decaying fruit trees, appear the only inhabitants of a spot once 

 devoted to the choicest gifts of Flora. 



In conclusion, I may remark, the city of St. Augustine is most 

 pleasantly situated, two miles back from tlie Atlantic, near the 

 southern point of a peninsula, and is almost surrounded by 

 water; defended from the surf by Anastasia Island, which is 

 just high enough to anwer this end, but sufficiently low to admit 

 the refreshing: breezes and a view of the ocean. The situation 

 is peculiarly serene, healthy, and pleasant. The climate is de- 

 lightful ; snow is almost unknown, and slight frosts in general 

 are only felt for one or two months in the year, and I understood 

 many winters pass without discovering the least symptom of 

 frost. In the summer season the air is tempered daily by the 

 sea breezes, while the land breezes render the evening cool and 

 pleasant. 



iVew Yor% Bee. 9. 1838. 



REVIEWS. 



Akt. I. Traite de la Composition et de V Ornement des Jardins avec 

 161 Planches representant en plus de 600 Figures des Plans des 

 Jardins, des Fabriques propres a leur Decoration et des Machines 

 pour elever ies Faux, 8fc. 2 vols, oblong -ito, text pp. 223, and 1 

 vol. of plates. Paris, Audot, 1839. 



Though there is not much in this work that will be new to the English 

 reader conversant with the literature of landscape-gardening and garden 

 architecture, yet it contains such an assemblage of engravings of ground 

 plans, elevations, and views, having reference to gardening and rural improve- 

 ment, as is not to be found in any other work. In some respects it resembles 

 the grand work of Hirschfeldt, so frequently quoted in the historical part of 

 our Enci/clopcBdia of Gardening, but it also includes much of what is con- 

 tained in the Ideenmagazin, published in Leipsic between 1779 and 1805, and 

 noticed in one of our early volumes. The letterpress contains, i. A Glance 

 at the History of Gardens; ii. Different Kinds of Gardens; iii. Of Situ- 

 ations in general ; iv. Of particular Situations ; v. Of Climate and Tem- 

 perature ; VI. Of measuring Ground and taking Plans ; vii. Of the 

 Kitchen-garden and Orchard ; viii. Of Mixed Gardens ; ix. Of Botanic 

 Gardens ; x. Of Symmetrical Gardens ; xi. Of Florists' Gardens, and of 

 a Rosarium ; xii. Of Landscape Gardens ; xiii. Of Gardens of great 

 Extent, including a cosmopolite garden ; xiv. Of Zoological Gai'dens ; xv. 

 Of a Cottage Ornee ; xvi. Of a Ferme Ornee ; xvii. Preparations for lay- 

 ing out a Landscape Garden ; xviii. Employment and Arrangement of 

 Plants ; xix. Of artificial Perspective, including trees with obscure flowers, 

 and trees with conspicuous flowers ; xx. Evergreens ; xxi. Of Water ; 

 XXII. Of Rocks ; xxiii. Ornamental Constructions of different kinds, in- 

 cluding hot-houses, dwellings of every kind, from the villa to the cottage. 



