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t'ruits of all descriptions, belongs to William Willinck- 

 Esq. at Bosch-en-Hoven. Our limited time prevented us 

 from visiting it ; but we were informed by a very intelligent 

 friend who had been there, " that the crops of grapes, 

 peaches and nectarines in the open air (that is, without glass, 

 but against a wall) were very line ; and the state of the trees 

 evinced the judicious management of Mr Francis Eggen- 

 raam, the gardener. One plant of the Frankendale grape- 

 vine covers more than a hundred feet of wall. Apricots 

 are brought to maturity on the walls here as early as the 

 month of May, by a simple mode of forcing. Glass frames 

 or sashes, inclining from the top of the wall to the ground, 

 are placed over the trees in the preceding December. Be- 

 sides the reflection from the glass, the only artificial heat 

 employed arises from the fermentation of a layer of stable- 

 dung, about a foot in thickness."" The garden of Mr J. 

 Willinck, at his villa called Bosch-en- Vaart, is nearly of 

 equal merit ; and Mr Goll van Frankensteyn at Velsen, is 

 regarded as a very successful cultivator of fruit. All of 

 these gardens possess a soil similar to that which we have 

 described when speaking of Mr Eldering^s at Overveen, a 

 rich vegetable mould incumbent on a stratum of pure sand. 

 Although the fruit-trees and ornamental shrubs are in the 

 greatest luxuriance, we are assured that manure of any 

 kind is seldom or never applied to the borders ; the regu- 

 lar dunging being confined to those quarters of the garden 

 in which kitchen-vegetables are reared. 



We learned that Mr Schentzer has a garden, containing 

 an excellent collection of apple-trees, which he propagates 

 lor sale. But the largest and best nurseries for fruit-trees 

 are situate, as already remarked, on the other side of the 

 EiaarL m Abie, at a place called Boskoop. 



The mention of this place leads us to a remark regard- 

 ing Dutch strawberries. At the Hague, Leydcn, and 



