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at fechonbruiin, which was grafted on a standard and had a lar«'<3 

 bushy head 10 ft. high and a main stem more than 1ft. in girth 

 The use of flowering shrubs grown as big standards is much more 

 common on the Continent than with us. These are but a few of 



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Other Parks and Gardens of Vienna. 



The remainder of my time in Vienna was spent in seeing 

 various gardens and parks about the city ; of these the three 

 briefly noted below were the most important. The Stadt park 

 is not large, but is well designed and managed. It contains a 

 huge spreading specimen of Pterocarya caucasica, the finest 

 among the many fine ones I saw in this neighbourhood. There 

 are also some good fastigiate oaks, trees of a Lombardy poplar-like 



fficienth 



Elaeagmis 



orientaliSy a silvery-leaved tree much planted in Central Europe, 

 was very good here : one tree had a trunk 4 ft. 8 in. in girth. 

 This small tree (sometimes a shrub) is not much planted in England, 

 but, no doubt, the whiteness of the leaf is more pronounced 

 under the Continental sun than beneath our duller skies. In 

 Germany and Austria its effect ia something like that of the 

 whitest form of Salix alba, but even more intensely silvery. 



The Prater, an island in the Danube, is the largest public park 

 of Vienna, and a popular pleasure resort of the Viennese. 

 Through it runs a straight avenue— the Haupt-Allee— 2f miles in 

 length, bordered largely by horse chestnut trees. At each side of 

 this noble avenue — the Rotten Row of Vienna— are woodland and 

 grassland. Some of the former is interesting as being the remnants 

 of an ancient natural forest, consisting of oaks and other trees. 

 It was a favourite hunting-ground of the Austrian Emperors of 

 th& 16th and 17th centuries. 



The Belvedere gardens are close to the Botanic Garden of the 

 University. They consist of a long rectangular area, sloping 

 upwards from the Renneweg to the Belvedere Chateau. They are 

 laid out in a purely formal style, and the slope is partially terraced. 

 The chief features of interest here are the well-kept clipped hedges 

 of field maple 12 ft. high ; clipped yews of sugar-loaf shape ; and 

 low, square box hedges. There are also circular basins of water, 

 ornamented with groups of statuary. Of naturally grown trees 

 there were none, and but few flowers. On the south Bid© of the 

 chateau (a handsome structure built about 200 years ago for the 

 Prince Eugene of Savoy) are other gardens, but they were not 

 open to the public. 



ISCHL. June 16 and 17. 



This beautiful little town, situated among the No^tAurtrian 

 Alps, and now well known as the summer re^fce f^ e 

 Emperor of Austria, and a fashionable bathing place, M the centre 

 of a great forest region owned and control!^ '- the Austrian 

 Government. It was to see these forests, and 



gam 



w«n as to their management as a twu iwj* °^.:r.: *, flr the 

 that a visit was made to Ischl. The whole ^tnct w ^te^tjj 

 direction of a « forest-master "-a position of some importance 



