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CONTINENTAL GARDENS. 
midst of larches and American oaks, clumps 
of roses, and an extensive rosarium, which 
occupies a prominent place in the gardens of 
the king. The trees are seldom naked, as 
vines, Cissuses, Aristolochias, and Clematises 
are trained round their trunks. At the high- 
est part of the garden five very extensive 
terraces are laid out in parterres ; where 
there are also extensive houses, in which 
fruit-trees are protected, and where the peach, 
the vine, and apricot, ripen in spite of the 
latitude. In front of the houses are long 
borders in which some sorts of vegetables 
and strawberries are grown, but these are 
so arranged as not to offend the eye. The 
orange-trees are numerous, very strong, and 
loaded with fruit, In this garden are also 
to be seen beautiful groups of lilacs, Staphy- 
leas, junipers, handsome beech-trees, and 
curious labyrinths of clipped box-trees ; also 
Bengal roses, and plots in the midst of which 
are clumps of cherry-laurels. Near the 
grotto of Neptune Tussilago JPetasites is used 
to form an aquatic group, which is shaded by 
tulip -trees. 
The Botanic Garden at Berlin is situated 
in the Faubourg of Stralaw, and contains 
numerous select and rare plants. In the 
houses are some old palms, and the largest 
tree of Cocos nucifera to be found in Europe ; 
an enormous Pandanus, and the finest known 
collection of exotic ferns. It may be said 
that there are no houses in Berlin without 
flowers. The double windows, formed for 
the purpose of insuring the apartments from 
cold, are also made to serve the purposes of a 
greenhouse ; they are generally filled with 
flowers and plants, forming at once an orna- 
ment to the streets, and to the interior of the 
houses. Numerous little baskets, vases, pots, 
flats, and other things of the kind, are hung 
at the windows, containing miniature plants, 
and bouquets, which are constantly renewed. 
Flowers are also placed on the staircase, the 
tables, or wherever they can conveniently 
stand in the rooms. Sometimes they are 
grown in vases, or cut, and skilfully arranged 
in large porcelain dishes, in which green moss 
is used to contrast with the brilliancy of the 
other colours, and increase their effect. The 
lustres (or candelabras,) are also ornamented 
with natural or artificial bouquets, chiefly 
formed in garlands of roses, which seem to 
add brilliancy to the light surrounding them. 
The balconies are provided with supports for 
pots, and the stands placed in the rooms are 
covered with small healthy plants, growing in 
porcelain pots. These miniature plants are 
also sold very cheaply in the streets of Berlin. 
Mignonette, the commonest Sedums, violets, 
and sweet basil, with the autumn fruits, are 
seen in plenty ; and in a country where the 
vine is excluded, it is surprising to find 
that pine-apples may be bought for half-a- 
cronm. 
The plants are the household gods, and 
when a change of residence is made, they 
are always removed with the same care ob- 
served with china or crystal. Everywhere 
may be seen ivy growing in pots, and lining 
the interior of the windows. 
KIEL. 
The town of Kiel is built on a tongue of 
land at the extremity of the Gulf of the Baltic. 
Though situated beyond the 54° of latitude, 
it is surrounded with fine houses, and grounds 
laid out with great taste. In the streets, 
between the double windows, may be seen 
many of the newly introduced plants, among 
such kinds as Fuchsias and Gloxinias ; Sedums 
suspended in ornamental baskets, and every- 
where, as in Berlin, the ivy finds, like the 
birds in the forest, an asylum in the cot and 
in the palace. In the immediate precincts of 
the town are beautiful gardens, in which care 
is taken to cultivate those species which are 
hardy enough to resist the severity of the 
climate. Weeping willows wave their flexible 
branches over lawns of the finest green ; the 
poplar bears his head erect ; while the portly 
beech expands bis boughs, and forms a shade 
for the broad beds and clumps of Bengal 
roses. Limes and ash-trees form detached 
groups, through which may be seen the masts 
of numerous vessels, with their colours waving 
in the wind. Gracefully undulating lines of 
red geraniums and orange Tagetes are formed 
on the lawns, while the Clematis and the 
climbing liseron, though at the end of 
autumn, were still flowering on the hedges. 
The various shrubs were loaded with their 
fruit ; the bunches of the black elder mixed 
among the red, and the spindle-tree, the Vibur- 
num, and the Crataegus, with their berries in 
bouquets or thyrses, mixed among the branches 
of the green trees, or the white pearls of the 
Symphoricarpos. In Denmark, even the 
colour of the soil is studied in the arrange- 
ment of the garden : — that which is naturally 
red is planted with shrubs of a fine green ; 
the black, yellow, or white sands, commonly 
found in the alluvial strata of which the soil 
is composed, form graceful winding alleys, 
and the opposition of colours produces a most 
fantastical, and' sometimes a strange and pleas- 
ing effect. 
FLORISTS FLOWERS : LISTS. 
Theee is a great fallacy in the published 
lists of florists' flowers. Any cultivator well 
