290 Gai-denhig Visit to Part's, 



rooms can generally be recognised externally in all well de- 

 signed houses. 



Between Dieppe and Rouen the greatest care is taken in 

 planting and protecting the road-side trees. They are always 

 planted on little hills, the stems protected by thorny branches, 

 tied close round them, as in the Regent's Park, or by being 

 wound round with straw ropes, from the ground to the height of 

 7 or 8 feet. These straw ropes, by preventing excessive evapo- 

 ration from the bark, must be useful to the tree the first and 

 second year after planting ; and, accordingly, the practice is 

 frequently adopted with standard fruit trees in gardens in 

 France and Holland, and formerly also in Scotland, which took 

 its gardening from these countries. The kinds of trees planted 

 along the road are principally apples ; those in plantations, 

 almost every where, beech, on account of the peculiar value of 

 that timber as fuel ; and also because the beech is found to 

 thrive in this part of France better than any other tree. The cot- 

 tages by the road side are of two kinds : mud huts thatched, with 

 little appearance of comfort; and brick or stone buildings, with 

 the same class of accommodation as the mud huts,, and cha- 

 racterised by red brick coins and facings to the windows, and 

 tiled roofs. The cottage gardens were in genei'al well cultivated ; 

 and in the neighbourhood of the manufactories, which occurred 

 at several places on this road, they were stocked with flowers 

 and shrubs, many of which were of new kinds. Here, also, are 

 some villas, probably belonging to English manufacturers, in 

 which English gardening is imitated with considerable success. 

 In one we observed the effect of masses produced by an aggre- 

 gation of small groups and single trees, a mode of arrangement 

 which it is extremely difficult to get persons to understand and 

 act upon in England ; the objections being that trees grow faster 

 in clumps, and that the expense of enclosing and protecting 

 small groups and single trees is greater than in protecting the 

 same trees in masses. We have shown the fallacy of both these 

 arguments, in our suggestions for the improvement of Kensington 

 Gardens, in Vol. Xl'll. p. 150.— 157. 



Rouen. — July 4 — 7. The Botanic Garden has been removed 

 to a new site, which was formerly occupied by Calvert as a 

 nursery ; and it now contains upwards of twenty acres. The 

 arrangement, or ecole, is on a piece of level ground in the centre 

 of the garden, in beds of 5 ft. wide, with paths between them of 

 3 ft. 6 in. in width. There are two rows of plants in each bed, and 

 the classification is that of Jussieu, as modified by the late Pro- 

 fessor Marquis, which is also that followed in the Botanique 

 applique of the present Professor Pouchet. We examined every 

 tree and shrub in the collection, which is sufficient for a provin- 

 cial garden. The names of a number of the species are different 



