§ IV. THE SCHOOL OF PLANTS 

 USED IN DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND THE ARTS, 



This garden, which is 220 feet long and i85 

 broad, is divided into twenty-three beds 6 feet 

 wide, and subdivided into five hundred and fifty- 

 two compartments, destined for as many species 

 or varieties of plants, arranged according to their 

 properties and uses, and distributed into three 

 principal groups, as they serve for the food of 

 man, the nourishment of animals, or the purposes 

 of art. 



Each group comprises several sections: the 

 first is divided into cerealious plants, others with 

 farinaceous seeds, pot-herbs, and plants yielding 

 oil ; and each section is subdivided according to 

 part of the vegetable most esteemed : thus the 

 culinary plants are distinguished into those of 

 which we eat the root, as the potatoe and Jeru- 

 salem artichoke ; the leaves, as the cabbage, spi- 

 nage, etc. ; the calix or the flower, as the arti- 

 choke and cauliflower ; the fruit, as the pump- 

 kin and melon ; or the aromatic seeds, as fennel, 



