76 People's Parks. 



near the principal entrance from Dublin, which may 

 be very pleasingly instructive to vast numbers of 

 visitors who cannot conveniently go often to Botanic 

 Gardens, properly so called. This is one of the first 

 public gardens in this country in which I noticed pretty 

 large groups of some particular plants well grown per- 

 manently on rockery. I may again name Cor dy lines, 

 which form a remarkable feature in a well-chosen place. 

 Aralia Steboldtiiy sometimes called Fatsia Japonica; 

 ftldmmcas, Fortune's Chusan Palm, and other inte- 

 resting shrubs are on trial here, and I hope their suc- 

 cess will encourage the managers to add to their 

 number, following even at a distance what is adoing 

 in the parks of London and elsewhere. 



In admiring or looking at particular plants, with 

 a view to planting the like elsewhere, we should 

 ascertain how far the soil and general circumstances 

 of the different situations correspond with each other, 

 or suit the plants. 



For instance, in the Phoenix Park People's Gar- 

 den, there is a good-sized bed of Ehododendrons, 

 and seemingly in a healthy condition ; but the gene- 

 ral soil of the country about does not suit this 

 family ; and it might be more useful to expend in 

 plants naturally adapted to the soil of the locality 

 the extra money which it takes to import soil for 

 Rhododendrons. 



It may be important for authorities to consider 

 how much each hundred pounds judiciously expended 

 in such places would save the Imperial treasury in 



