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tage of students ; but the plants arc in sufficient abundance 

 to afford a supply for private patients who make applica- 

 tion, as well as for those in the public hospitals. The 

 use of simples, at least in popular practice, and among 

 the lower orders, seems to be much greater in France than 

 in Britain. The gathering and the cultivating of physic- 

 herbs form country trades ; and the herboristes of Paris 

 are a distinct set of dealers, who offer great store of such 

 herbs for sale, in a lane called La Poterie, connected with 

 the markets at the head of Rue St Honore, 



The Ecole d 1 Agriculture Pratique, established in 1806, 

 occupies a considerable area on the north, next to the spe- 

 cimens of soils and manures, and separated from these by 

 a low wall covered with Judas-tree. In this compartment 

 examples of different horticultural and agricultural opera- 

 tions and works are presented. The English Ha, ha ! 

 appears, having the sloping bank dressed with violets, 

 and wooded by means of elms laid down. Specimens of 

 brise- vents and hedges, constructed in different ways, and 

 composed of various shrubs and trees, are here seen. 

 Some of the plants employed (as the Tamarix gallica, 

 Ptelea trifoliata, and Coronilla Emerus), would by no 

 means answer the purpose in Scotland ; but the Chinese 

 arbor-vitae, the Swedish juniper, and the red cedar, which 

 here make very neat hedges, might more frequently be used 

 in forming ornamental divisions in our gardens at home. 

 The sea-buckthorn seems almost to vie with the privet in 

 neatness and efficacy as a division hedge. These pattern 

 fences cannot, of course, be seen to advantage at all times ; 

 the natural progress of vegetation soon disarranging them : 

 but when explained by an expert practical teacher, as Pro- 

 fessor Thouin most undoubtedly is, the utility of such ex- 

 emplars must be great. The different modes of training 

 fruit-trees, and the various shapes which they are made to 



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