.mis Horticultural touk. 



Unequivocal marks both of former magnificence and of re- 

 cent destruction. For example, Mr Hay traced the foun- 

 dations of the glazed houses, and ascertained that they had 

 extended no less than 430 English feet in one continued 

 stretch. As might naturally be expected, the whole had 

 been ruined by the French soldiery. The conservatory 

 and hot-houses had, at one time, indeed, been occupied for 

 some weeks as stables by a regiment of cavalry ! The hor- 

 ticulturist may easily conceive the devastation which inevi- 

 tably followed. We figured to ourselves, while we were 

 traversing the ruins, hungry horses brousing on such of the 

 exotics as suited their palates ; others tied to rare trees 

 brought from tropical regions, fretting, while they were rub- 

 bed down by their rude and warlike masters ; and these last 

 hastening the work of destruction by acts of wanton mis- 

 chief. 



Since the expulsion of Buonaparte, the Duke has been 

 busily employed in restoring the garden and its various ap- 

 pendages. Already three of the glazed houses are com- 

 pletely restored, each above sixty feet long ; and all of these 

 are apparently destined solely for the cultivation of orna- 

 mental plants. One of them is a stove, and the other two 

 are green-houses. They have, we understand, been some- 

 what improved ; and they are decidedly of a better con- 

 struction for the purpose in view, than any we have yet 

 seen on the Continent. They already contain some ex- 

 cellent plants; but it will require many years to forma 

 collection equal to that which was lost. 



In the stove were large plants of the broad-leaved and 

 of* the narrow-leaved Eugenia (E. malaccensis and jambos). 

 The jambos was now in flower; and it is expected this 

 fi ,i to produce It8 fruit fit for the table. The gardener 



