Book excerpt: Excerpt from Journal of a Horticultural Tour Through Some Parts of Flanders, Holland, and the North of France, in the Autumn of 1817 At the General Meeting in June 1817, the Coun cil of the Society signified its wish, that the pro jected survey should be accomplished that season, and should be extended to the gardens in the en virons of Paris. Mr john hay, planner, Edin burgh, readily agreed to form one of the party; and on an application from Sir George Mackenzie to the late Duke of Buccleuch, His Grace at once gave his approbation to an arrangement by which Mr james macdonald, chief-gardener at Dal keith Park, should form another. 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.