Glasnevin shallower, but also the deeper and remoter spaces of sea come 

 into sight, with all their accompaniments of sails and white- 

 tipped waves, the sharply-accentuated line of the Wicklow 

 mountains filling up the background. Whatever part of 

 these gardens you may elect, therefore, to wander in 

 whether to stroll between walls of cut Yew, to discuss 

 horticulture beside its flower borders, to peer down into some 

 small deep-lying pool, to explore its wall and rock gardens, or 

 to penetrate to where Rose plots and lines of Rose Pergolas 

 tempt the eye always the sense of those long rifts and wedges of 

 dark indigo-blue sea will remain upon your mind, and will 

 create, I think, for the entire scene its pre-eminently personal and 

 dominating note. 



Of other gardens which lend an aspect of beauty here 

 and there to this neighbourhood, the one that, officially 

 speaking, calls most for remark is, of course, the Botanic 

 Garden at Glasnevin. As regards situation, especially as regards 

 sea views, there are many gardens in the circumference which 

 exceed it. As a home for rare plants, and as a place where horti- 

 cultural experiments have been carried to a successful issue, it 

 towers above them all, second only in these respects to that parent 

 of all our British gardens, Kew. Of late, too so I am given 

 to understand the fruit and flower industries, fostered under the 

 wing of the Irish Agricultural Department, have been vigorously 

 helped forward by its Curator, Mr Moore, both in the way of 

 initiating industries of the kind at a distance, and of demonstra- 

 tion carried on in the Gardens themselves. These utilitarian 

 considerations are not, however, the ones which are likely to be 

 foremost in the mind of our peripatetic enthusiast ! For him it 

 suffices that in few spots in these islands are the objects of his 

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