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l84 DESCRIPTION OF THE MUSEUM." 



with fruit and garlands of flowers ; trunks bear- 

 ing as many species of fruit as they have limbs ; 

 stocks of a year old i5 or 18 inches high, grafted 

 from an adult and laden with fruit; arbours 

 formed by grafting together two rows of shrubs, 

 which are covered with foliage from the surface 

 of the ground, and form an impervious arch ; and 

 lastly, examples of a proposed form given to the 

 trunks and branches of trees, in order to furnish 

 solid natural curves for building. 



The professor of agriculture delivers a part of 

 his course in this garden ; persons who wish to 

 visit it, without attending the lectures, should 

 read the memoirs in the Annals of the Museum, in 

 which he has explained the various processes, and 

 the result of a great number of experiments, some 

 of which are not immediately useful in augment- 

 ing the product of vegetation, but which are all 

 calculated to throw light on questions of vege- 

 table physiology equally important in theory and 

 practice. 



