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with a blow of the fist, or jumped over* with ease. Around houses and gar- 

 dens stand trees cut in the shape of fans, plumes, discs, etc., with their trunks 

 painted white and blue, and there appears a little wooden house for a 

 domestic animal, painted, gilded and carved like a house in a puppet show." ^ 

 Some of the earliest and most famous botanical gardens in Europe are 



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THE BOTANIC GARDEN AT LEYDEN, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 



to be found in Holland. The garden at Leyden was founded as early as 

 1577, only thirty-one years after that of Padua. It was confided to Cluyt, 

 a celebrated botanist, afterwards to Bontius, and in 1592 L'Ecluse from 

 Frankfort, was appointed professor of Botany. In 1633 the catalogue of 

 the garden contained 1,104 species. At this time the magistrates, the 



1 Holland, translated from the Italian by Caroline Tilton, 1880. 



