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similar to the former except in having larger white fleshy 

 roots ; and a variety with variegated leaves. This last, 

 with the " feuilles panachees," was by much the strongest 

 Specimen, the flower-stem being about ten feet high. 



This garden of Ceres and Chloris is separated from that 

 of Pomona, by a walk shaded with oriental planes. Here 

 a rich collection of all such fruit-trees as can be cultivated in 

 the open air in France, may be studied. With the view 

 of occupying as little room as possible, the pears are chiefly 

 on quince-stocks, and trained to the pyramidal form ; the 

 apples on paradise or on doucin stocks. So complete is the 

 establishment, that at one corner is a tool-house, where every 

 implement used in the management of fruit-trees may be 

 seen. This assemblage of fruit-trees, and of their varieties, 

 we found very interesting, and examined minutely, more par- 

 ticularly as nothing of the kind exists in Scotland. A tally, 

 bearing either the name, or a number referring to the gar- 

 den catalogue, is placed beside each tree. A list of the 

 greater part of the trees will be found in the Appendix, 

 No. VIII. This collection, as welL as the other fruit-trees 

 in the Jardin, are under the management of an appropriate 

 curator, M. Dumoutier, who has the reputation of being 

 very expert and intelligent in his department. When we 

 expressed to Mr Thouin our high approbation of this 

 part of the garden, he immediately said, that grafts from 

 any of the kinds of fruit-trees which we might specify, 

 would, in the proper season, be sent to the Caledonian 

 Horticultural Society at Edinburgh. We cordially thank- 

 ed him, on the part of the Society : but we have to regret, 

 that, owing to the delay in instituting an Experimental 

 Garden, it has not yet been in our power to avail ourselves 

 of the liberal offer of the Professor. The formation of a 

 Pomarium, on a similar plan, ought, in our opinion, to 



