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possible that gooseberries should form an excellent article 

 of the dessert ; they think of them only as fit for making 

 tarts, or sauce for mackrel ! 



The large-fruited amber raspberry appears here in great 

 perfection, as well as the pale red or flesh-coloured. Both 

 of these, I presume, M. Noisette has obtained from Eng- 

 land ; for they are not usually to be met with in the gar- 

 dens about Paris. 



I have already written so much about the pomarium, that 

 the other parts of the establishment can only be glanced at. 



The roses are disposed in groups or families, according 

 to the general characters of their foliage and flowers, and 

 the original species from which they are supposed to have 

 been derived. M. Noisette has contrived to arrange no fewer 

 than twenty-six groups, and to enumerate varieties to the 

 amount of 600. Many of these, of course, have but slen- 

 der claims to distinction. But he is constantly making ex- 

 periments and raising new varieties from seed, and he 

 collects from every quarter. A new rose of considerable 

 beauty, allied to Rosa Indica, but with pale and sweet- 

 scented flowers, has lately had the name of Rose de Noi- 

 sette bestowed on it. 



The collection of exotic herbaceous plants is consider- 

 able, and his general mode of culture seems to be good, 

 for they are healthy and vigorous. Several sunk frames are 

 destined to receive the greenhouse plants during winter ; and 

 the more tender plants are kept in a span-roofed hot-house, 

 of uncommon construction, having various aspects. Noi- 

 sette, however, is as far behind Cels in the botanical and 

 floricultural department, as Cels is behind Noisette in the 

 fruit-tree line. 



Besides the nurseries which I have now described, and 

 which extend to about ten acres (arpents), he has another, 

 at some distance^ of still larger dimensions, appropriated en- 

 tirely to the raising of fruit and forest trees. In the Paris 



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