tiiS HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



trees ; but they seemed to us to be rather carelessly and 

 clumsily managed. Some of the original trees had proba- 

 blv died out, and a large tree had been replaced by two 

 unsightly small ones. The crop was nearly past ; only a 

 very few tardives, chiefly Bourdines, and some peches Usses 

 or nectarines, now remaining. 



In walking through the village, our attention happened 

 to be attracted by some uncommon flower growing in a cot- 

 tage-garden ; and having stopped to look at it, we were 

 kindly invited by the mistress of the adjoining house to 

 enter and view the garden. We did so, and had reason 

 to be much pleased with the hearty good will and polite- 

 ness of our hostess. Perceiving that we were over-heated, 

 she proffered such cooling refreshments as she could imme- 

 diately command ; cut some bunches of early Madaleine 

 and Chasselas grapes from vines trained against the gable- 

 wall of the house ; and drew some wine from a barrel of 

 vintage 1815, now almost two years old, which we found 

 very good. Upon our inquiring for the garden of Mr 

 John Mozard, she called her daughter, a young woman of 

 twenty, to assist in giving us a proper direction ; and this 

 last, after describing its situation, said that, as we might 

 still have difficulty in finding it, she would herself con- 

 duct us to the spot. To the credit of these people we 

 add, that it was with no little difficulty that we could con- 

 trive to leave some remuneration for their hospitality. The 

 name of our hostess was Baussc, the wife of a mason ; and 

 they had given their daughter an education fully equal to 

 their circumstances, for, in the course of our walk, we dis- 

 covered that she knew the horticultural publication of Mo- 

 zard * (which had never been heard of at M. LoriantV) ; 



• " Principef pratiques sur i'education des arbrcs a fruits, ct principle- 

 menl du Pfccher," 8vo, r814. 



