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lime-water, which is a cheap and easily applied remedy, the 

 efficacy of which may be readily ascertained. 



The extensive lines of fruit trees, and the disposition of the 

 numerous plantations of trees for fuel, give a peculiar aspect to 

 the part of the country between Havre and Rouen. Wherever 

 there is a farm-house, or patch of houses, such are generally en- 

 closed, on three sides at least, by a plantation of trees, for shelter 

 partly, but chiefly for fuel ; and these plantations exhibit so 

 much uniformity, that one is led to suppose their formation and 

 maintenance must be regulated by a special law. An embank- 

 ment is formed near the habitations on the north side, and usually 

 at right angles with this, on the east and west sides. Some re- 

 cently formed appeared to be about four feet high, and as many 

 in breadth on the top, which is flat ; and on this two rows of 

 trees, chiefly beech, are planted. I observed no sweeps formed 

 by the plantations, probably because such would have interfered 

 more with the ploughing of the adjoining fields. It has doubt- 

 less been proved for ages, that in thin soil such embankments 

 favour the growth of trees. 



Rouen. — The Botanic Garden at this place, or " Jardin 

 des Plantes de Rouen, et a l'Ecole Normale primaire du De- 

 partement de la Seine-Inferieure." is situated on the south side of 

 the town, and so far distant as to be sufficiently out of the reach 

 of smoke. It is on the site formerly occupied by Calvert's 

 Nursery, and, together with the Arboricultural department, 

 occupies, it is said, upwards of twenty acres. The cultivation of 

 this and the former garden has been for more than forty years 

 under the direction of M. Du Breuil, senior. The Arboricul- 

 tural, including the Fruit-tree department, is superintended by 

 his son M. A. Du Breuil, Professor of Agriculture and Rural 

 Economy, and of Arboriculture, &c. The arrangement of 

 plants is on a level part of the ground. The plants are disposed 

 in beds five feet wide, and according to a modification of the 

 Jussieuan system. The tallies are supported on iron steins 

 about three feet above the ground. 



Lectures are given by Professor Du Breuil on vegetable 

 physiology, the agents of vegetation, soils, &c, budding, 

 grafting, pruning training, and, in short, everything connected 

 with the management of fruit-trees. There are specimens of 

 trees to illustrate both good and bad practice in these matters. 

 The trees are very neatly pruned and trained, and exhibit almost 

 perfect examples of the various modes of training figured in 

 Professor Du Breuil's Cours EUmentaire Theorique et 

 Pratique (V Arboriculture. 



There are some specimens of trees against walls, which are 



