8 l J0 HORTICULTURAL TOUR, 



berg has thus, in a signal way, evinced his predilection 

 for gardening and botany, he has at the same time* we 

 think, consulted both his interest and his pleasure. He 

 can now immediately enjoy the fine Park of Enghien, as 

 an occasional residence : some years must necessarily elapse 

 before the garden can be in a productive state as to most 

 kinds of fruit, but still it is in progress ; and by the time 

 that the fruit-trees approach maturity, he may find it con- 

 venient to incur the expence of rearing a chateau. 



In front of the large glazed houses, are the remains of 

 two parallel ranges of forcing pits, adapted for producing 

 both fruits and culinary vegetables. These ranges are of 

 the extraordinary length of 530 feet, and had contained, 

 in all, fourteen pits. Two or three of these pits have 

 likewise been restored, and were now filled with ananas 

 plants. The construction of the pits seems good, and we 

 were told that they had, in former days, been found com- 

 pletely to answer their purpose. A narrow path passes 

 in front as well as behind, in the interior of each pit ; a 

 useful accommodation to the workmen not always attend- 

 ed to by garden-architects. 



The green chasselas grape-vine (chasselas musque) is 

 trained along the front of the house possessed by the cham- 

 berlain. It now presented a good many scattered bunches, 

 forming a tolerable crop, if due allowance be made for the 

 unfavourableness of the season ; and we are told that, before 

 the end of October, the grapes seldom fail to ripen fully, 

 and to acquire their musky flavour. On a wall hard by, 

 several other varieties of the vine appeared ; particularly 

 the small early chasselas, the champagne, and the claret 

 grape. 



The peach-trees are in general healthy ; and some of 

 them, which had escaped with little injury from the ra- 



