Excerpt from Journal of a Horticultural Tour Through Germany, Belgium, and Part of France, in the Autumn of 1835: To Which Is Added, a Catalogue of the Different Species of Cacteae in the Gardens at Woburn Abbey The continental gardens and botanical collections having been rarely visited by the British gardener, his Grace the Duke of Bedford, with his usual anxi ety for the promotion of useful knowledge, very li berally and kindly proposed in the autumn of 1835 that I should undertake a Horticultural Tour, through several parts of Germany, Belgium, and France, With a view of inspecting the different col lections and productions cultivated in some of the most celebrated horticultural establishments in these countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.