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Title: An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles
Identifier: encyclopdiaofg00loud (find matches)
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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7332. The entrance to the garden is through a handsome iron railing between lodges (1, and the elev- ation 32), opposite the bridge of Austerlitz (42). On the left is the menagerie, commencing with the fe- rocious animals, in a long building, with wings and a fore court; and next in order is a number of small irregular-shaped enclosures of pasture, covered by trees, each devoted to one genus of animals, and con- taining a building in the centre for their repose or shelter (2 and 3). Passing these we arrive at the dwelling-houses of the professors of natural history; and the large amphitheatre (4, and elevation 26) in which the lectures are given. Here is also the hot-house department (7, and elevation 23), with a sunk area in front for pots and frames; a space called the seed-garden for raising seeds, and for nursing them till they flower. Adjoining is an artificial mount, crowned with a kiosque (5), which overlooks, not only the whole garden, but great part of Paris; it contains a sundial, which, by means of a lens, is contrived to discharge a cannon every day at noon. The museum of natural history is a large building at the upper end of the garden, exactly opposite the entrance (6, and elevation 24); it is separated by a handsome low wall and iron rails from the open garden, which consists of 36 plots, enclosed by lattice-work from the walks, which are at all times open to the public. These plots contain specimens of the mode of propagating all herbaceous vegetables, all trees and shrubs (8) — a department which is particularly rich in specimens of grafting and inarching (9); a large basin for aquatics, and aquatic birds and reptiles, situated at the bottom of an excavation, more than ten

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