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young, having been mostly proeurod from Brussels and 

 Louvain since 1814. 



The kitchen -garden is not yet fully restored, and is 

 therefore irregularly cropped. We saw some excellent en- 

 dive, the loaves tied close together with small bulrushes, in 

 order to blanch the centre. A little border of broad-leaved 

 whortleberry, Yaccinium amccnum, was rather a novelty 

 to us. The fruit was now formed, and we understand 

 that it is used in the same way as cranberries. This spe- 

 cies very seldom produces its berries in our Scottish gar- 

 dens. 



Mr Chatillon next conducted us into the most highly or- 

 namented parts of the park of Enghien. We ascended an 

 avenue lined with tall trees, leading towards a large Tem- 

 ple siutate on an elevated spot, from which the ground de- 

 clines in every direction. We had no sooner reached the 

 precincts of the building, than we perceived that we were in 

 the centre of the grand etoile of Enghien Park, the praises 

 of which we recollected to have long ago read. The temple 

 is of a heptangular shape, or fronts seven different ways. 

 At the angles on every side are two parallel columns, 

 placed about a foot apart. From the seven large centres 

 proceed as many broad, straight and long avenues of no- 

 ble trees, affording vista prospects of the distant country in 

 all these directions; and from the seven small centres, 

 formed by each pair of columns, proceed an equal number 

 of small and narrow allies, each terminated by some sta- 

 tue, bust, vase, or other ornament. The predilection for 

 seven, as the number of perfection, is here as remark- 

 able as we found it at Brussels, where there are seven 

 churches, seven public fountains, seven Doric gates, &c. 

 The temple is moated, or immediately surrounded by a 

 pond or circular canal. Partly with the view of securing 



