188 HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



bearing abundance of fine fruit, not of an appearance fa- 

 miliar to us : Mr Voorhelm called it the Wygen-pear, and 

 recommended it as an excellent table fruit, for the months 

 of September and October. 



Moments Garden. 

 We afterwards made a call at the garden of Mr Jean 

 Moonen, in the Kleine Hautweg. 'His collection of bulbous- 

 rooted flowers is not very large : but he excels in possessing 

 a great variety of exotic herbaceous plants, some of them 

 curious and rare, which he keeps, during winter, in a green- 

 house, and in several sunk frames. He shewed us, with 

 no little triumph, several plants which he had procured 

 from Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith, and Loddiges at 

 Hackney ; for both here and in Flanders, these eminent 

 English cultivators are looked up to, as the first in the world 

 in that department of horticultural trade. 



Van MarurrCs Museum. 

 Mr Kreps having kindly provided us with a card 

 of admission to the Museum of Dr Van Marum, we 

 repaired thither at midday, the time appointed. The 

 greater part of the Doctors house is fitted up as a Mu- 

 seum, different rooms containing quadrupeds, birds, fishes, 

 shells and corals, arranged chiefly in the Linnean order. 

 The Argus Pheasant (Phasianus Argus) is peculiarly fine. 

 The specimens of this splendid bird arc generally mutila- 

 ted, or deprived of their feet, before they leave China : this 

 one, however, is quite perfect. It is provided with a 

 large glass cover, and is set in the middle of the floor, so 

 that it may be viewed in every direction. The collection 

 i^ very carefully kept; damp being prevented by means of 

 stores, and those specimens possessed of bright colours 



