The market for plants and flowers in pots, and for nosegays, is kept on the _Quai de la Megisserie_, twice a week, very early in the morning; the following were the most abundant: _Nerium_ double flowering pomegranate, _vinca rosea_, (Madagascar periwinkle) _prickly lantana, peruvian heliotropium_ (turnsole) tuberoses, with very large and numerous single and double flowers, and very great quantities of common sweet basil, which is much used in cookery. I visited the apothecaries garden, and also two or three nursery gardens in that neighbourhood, but found nothing remarkable in them. There are many gardens in the environs of Paris which are worthy of notice, but I was prevented from seeing them in consequence of the disturbances hereafter mentioned. In the books which describe these places, I find the village of _Montreuil-sous-le-Bois_ particularly mentioned on account of its fertility. In the _Tableau de Paris_ it is said, "Three acres of ground produce to the proprietor twenty thousand livres annually, (near 800 guineas.) The rent of an acre is six hundred livres, and the king's tax sixty (together about six and twenty guineas.) The peaches which are produced here are the finest in the world, and are sometimes sold for a crown a piece. When a prince has given a splendid entertainment, three hundred Louis d'ors worth of these fruits have been eaten." It is situated on a hill, just above _Vincennes_, about three miles from the fauxbourg _Saint Antoine_, and is likewise celebrated for its grapes, strawberries, all sorts of wall fruit, pease, and every kind of esculent vegetables. In the garden called _Mouceaux_ which belongs to the _ci-devant Duke of Orleans_; at the extremity of the _fauxbourg du Roule_ are, it is said, magnificent hot-houses, of which I have no recollection, though I was in the garden in 1776. There is a description of these gardens in print, with sixteen copper plates. In the _Luxembourg_ gardens only common annuals were growing, such as marigolds, sun-flowers, &c. probably self sown; neither were there in the _Tuileries_ gardens, which I afterwards saw, any remarkable plants. I bought very large peaches in the markets at 30 _sous_ each, the ordinary ones were at 10 _sols_. The melons (which are brought to market in waggons, piled up like turnips in England) were all of the netted sort, and of so little flavor, that they would not be worth cultivating, were it not for the sake of cooling the mouth in hot weather; they were sold at 15 or 20 sous each. Strawberries were still plentiful (second week in August.) _Cerneaux_, which are the kernel of green walnuts, were just coming into season.