DESCRIPTION 

 OF THE MUSEUM. 



CHAPTER FIRST. 



GARDENS, GREEN-HOUSE AND HOT-HOUSES, 

 § I. TOUR OF THE GARDEN. 



Persons desirous of surveying all the parts of 

 the garden, without retracing their steps, should 

 proceed in the order we are going to point out. 



The visitor is supposed to arrive by the gate 

 on the quay, from which at one glance he em- 

 braces the whole establishment. At the opposite 

 extremity of the garden is seen the cabinet of 

 natural history, occupying its whole breadth, and 

 rising above the growth of two enclosures, 

 one of which is the nursery, and the other a 

 square basin, hollowed to the level of the river, 

 and adorned with shrubs. On the right and 

 left are two large avenues of linden-trees ; and 

 beyond these, on the right, several cultivated 



