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I am indebted to a valued friend, now 
travelling on the continent, for some inte- 
resting particulars relative to Botany and 
Horticulture in some of the German towns; 
and the following extracts will, I doubt 
not, prove acceptable to our readers. 
Berlin, July 31, 1836. 
** We left England, as I intended, on 
the night between the 15th and 16th of 
this month, and arrived at Hamburgh early 
on the 18th. There we remained till Sa- 
turday, partly on account of the very bad 
weather, and partly because there is really 
very much beauty in some parts of the 
town ; so that I had time to make repeated 
visits to the Botanical Garden. In point 
of situation it is, next to Edinburgh, the 
most beautiful one I know. It occupies 
about sixty English acres, of which the 
greater part is on the old outer ramparts of 
the town, planted with a good deal of taste. 
The old town ditch is here broad, and the 
water clear. The walks and plantations 
come down to the water’s edge, and on the 
opposite side the bank is laid out as a pro- 
menade, with flower-beds, shrubs, and 
plantations, that conceal all the town, ex- 
cepting the end of a very handsome new 
street, which, from several parts of the 
garden, looks like a fine chateau in an ex- 
tensive park. The whole circuit of the an- 
cient rampart of Hamburgh, is in the same 
manner converted into promenades full of 
flower-beds and of flowering shrubs neatly 
kept, and perfectly open to the high road, 
which has a beautiful effect, especially 
near the large lake, called the Alster. In 
a purely botanical point of view, the gar- 
den is chiefly rich in Cape plants, intro- 
ced by Mr. Ecklon, with a fair propor- 
tion of the Chilian and other new things 
which have been much raised of late in 
the German gardens, several very interest- 
named, ill-defined garden species, which 
! These plants are ape a by the excellent Dr. 
Fischer, at the end of a ** Catalogue of seeds of the 
; Pe Garden," Be are copied into the present 
: volume of this Journal, p. 6, 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
YI 
infest Continental, and especially C 
botanical gardens. Amongst Ae Cay 
plants, the most curious are the Palms, in 
troduced by Ecklon, and published 
Professor Lehmann, under the name 
a are six or"seven 
mall specimens: 
pense of the state or town of Hambu 
and is open to the public nominally o 
certain days, at certain hours; but rea 
all day and every day, without fee or o 
It is under the immediate 
barium includes that of the late Dr. 
mann, of Copenhagen, in which are mé 
of Thonning's Guinea plants. lt is 
rich in Ecklon's Cape plants, and con 
a very good general collection, of c 
derable extent. : 
“Ecklon, the S. African traveller,’ live 
at the Botanical Garden, and is contin! 
the third part of his ** Enumeratio,” W 
he intends publishing this autumn, 
ous to his departure for the Cape, we 
he purposes spending another twe 
month. 
* [ missed at Hamburg, by a few c 
only, Dr. and Mrs. Fischer, of St. Pete 
burg, whom you will shortly see p 
gow. 
ome account of the Travels and Collection 
this zealous Roane is given at page 17 71 of | 
** Journal of Botany." He has lately published | 
first and second Fasciculi of the 
tarum Africe extra-tropica, 0 
terminate et exposite a Christiano Frederico 
Carolo Zeyher.” 
