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smooth trunks. This tree must be one of the great features in 
Italian gardens when in bloom later in the season. Magnolia con- 
spicua is 40 ft. high ; Cephalotarus pedunculata 30 ft. ; and Hibiscus 
syriacus only a few feet less in height. These are but a few of the 
more noteworthy trees (there are for instance admirable examples 
of Ginkgo and deciduous cypress) but they serve to show that this 
charming old garden at Padua is well worth inspection. I think it 
is a mistake in the management to allow so many trunks to be 
covered with ivy. It is not that it does harm, that I believe only 
happens when the ivy reaches the leafy part of the tree, but where 
so unusual a number of trunks of exotic trees are to be seen in 
characteristic beauty as at Padua, it is a pity to let them be hidden 
TNS 
The herbaceous garden is circular and surrounded by an ancient 
wall entered by two fine gateways. The plants themselves are 
arranged in a series of square compartments usually about. 3 ft. 
across formed by stone edging, one plant or clump in each plot. In 
-April the stone was much more in evidence than the plants. 
ABBAZIA (IsTRIA). 
This little town is situated on the E. coast of Istria at the. N. end 
of the bay of Quarnero and may be reached in 45 minutes by 
through and 5 ft. high: an extensive group of Beschorneria was 
} editerranean resorts. The management appears to be alive to 
the desirability of increasing the attractiveness of the gardens for 
numerous small plants of new subtropical species had apparently 
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been recently obtained. Ophiopogon japonicum is used more or less 
