338 HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



On inquiry we found, that there are, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Enghien, two or three small nurseries for forest- 

 trees, but not one establishment of any kind for the rearing 

 or sale of fruit-trees. 



Having taken leave of Mr Parmentier, we returned to 

 our inn, after declining a pressing invitation of Mr Chatil- 

 lon that we should spend the night at the Pavilion. 



From Enghien to Tournay. 

 Sept. 13. — We set off betimes for A.th. Tobacco gar- 

 dens and small tobacco fields now began to appear. We 

 are aware that this plant is an object of culture in some 

 parts of Holland ; but we did not happen to fall in with 

 any of the tobacco-plantations of that country. The plants 

 nearly covering the ground with their large lanceolate leaves, 

 seemed ready for being gathered and dried. We passed 

 several extensive, but now burnt-looking, fields, which 

 had this year borne crops of poppies, which are here culti- 

 vated for the sake of the oil which may be expressed from the 

 seeds. Rape also seemed acommon crop, and the procuring of 

 oil from the seeds is likewise the principal object. Near Ath 

 we noticed an inclosure-hedge, composed wholly of Robinia 

 glutinosa. We breakfasted at the fortified and frontier 

 town just named, and afterwards walked about it for an 

 hour ; but we saw no gardens worth notice, and only remarked 



or rare plants in flower, to the editors of the excellent " Botanical Register," 

 or of the long established " Botanical Magazine." The quarterly publica- 

 tion of '■'• The Kxotic Flora," by Dr Hooker of Glasgow, will, we doubt not, 

 operate as a stimulus to cultivators in this country : and they ought never to 

 hesitate in availing themselves of such an opportunity ; for they may be 

 well assured, that new or rare plants, if sent in pots, will be well taken care of 

 t. ly returned, and that they will be published with all the advantages 

 — hirh a first-rate botanical describer and excellent artists can confer. — N. 



