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den for the time. It is best suited to the cleaning of light 

 sandy walks, but a similar implement might in many places, 

 where there are extensive gravel-walks, be advantageously 

 employed with us. 



In the afternoon we paid a visit to Mr Gillet, to whom 

 we were recommended by Sir John Sinclair. He showed 

 us his own little garden, which is a very nice spot, consi- 

 dering that it is almost in the midst of a great town ; and 

 he then conducted us to the garden of Mr Danoot, a dis- 

 tinguished banker, and a keen amateur gardener. On our 

 way thither, we passed through several by-lanes, in which, 

 at the door of every house, several females were seated on 

 stools, busy at the knitting of lace, for which this city has 

 long been celebrated. The rapidity of their manipulations 

 excited our admiration. 



M. Danoot s Garden 

 is elevated, and commands a view of a great part of Brus- 

 sels, including the Church of St Gudule, and the tower of 

 the Town-Hall, the two finest Gothic structures of the 

 place. It is of small dimensions, but contains a great va- 

 riety of fruit-trees and of ornamental plants ; the former, 

 indeed, are too much crowded together, as often happens 

 in the gardens of amateurs. The west wall is only about 

 ten feet high ; yet fruit-trees, particularly pears and peach- 

 es, are planted at the distance of only five or six feet 

 from each other ; the peaches arc trained to the wall in the 

 fan mode, and the pears partly in that way, and partly in 

 the horizontal style, but both much stinted for room: At 

 the 'me time, the border in front of these is used as a nur- 

 sery for dwarfing-stocks, than which scarce any crop could 

 be more exhausting. 



