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lopement requires a more spacious habitation. 

 For this purpose the upper hot-house should be 

 at least 25 feet in height, and so arranged that 

 the trunks might be placed on a level with the 

 soil ; by this means only can we preserve, mul- 

 tiply and render useful, the vegetables procured 

 at great expence from regions about the equator : 

 the Garden of Paris should not be destitute of 

 accommodations which are found in that of 

 Schoenbrunn. The buildings requisite for so vast 

 an establishment cannot be erected at once, but 

 this object will be steadily kept in view, and 

 government, in requesting a plan for new hot- 

 houses, has given room to hope for its speedy 

 execution. 



Issuing from the hot-houses just described at 

 the western extremity, we cross a court and 

 arrive by a narrow passage along the side of the 

 small hill at one of those built by Dufay, the en- 

 trance to which is on the ascent from the lower 

 to the upper part of the garden. This is called 

 the shrub hot-house, and is 75 feet long, 9 wide, 

 and 16 in height : a temperature of 5o° is kept up 

 during the winter by means of two furnaces. 

 It is destined for the larger tropical shrubs, which 

 are planted in boxes, and disposed on stages one 

 above another. We here find large stocks of 

 the ironwood, sideroxjlon atrovirens ; the small 



