THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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Notices of Books, 
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Facations in aran Shes y La Weld. Longmans. 
s an araea stam, pore T in cero: -= 
ag e author’s vaca 
mst in i tho west of Treland. 
good ; 
e tho mae that a st keap vs of ‘life’ 
coaches 
The remaining parts of Telani acide in. inthe follow- 
emigration and prosperity in = great | ‘that is far too 
earns ha 
ag pane» throug intenti 
can. fail Teiti Struck by the ata, and at the emg: time entertainin 
the » 
"more than once ample verve 
houses of magistrates 
The law w requires uires that all ra Ra thc ona 
y 
SE asa is no uncom- 
l door o manag 
following account of 
the E Reeks aran the adventurous spirits whose 
_ leisure will not carry them to Mont Blane. 
atter all, the emotions caused by elevation are always 
sname due to the come of the mass than to the actual 
hei 
mpose mo 
"ama mountains of double os atinde fail to arouse. 
cory gy its neigh» 
to be Carran: 
ye Ape bles,” bours in the range, that I conceived i 
coast, Dingle, a hes south-west | Taal. is bon e was sees hanai th a possant, 
many years ago; asth who assured me that it e highest ate but, as I 
etam have n arjen since | afterwards he arran- 
ve e was in error, for 
is not visible from any per = the road 1 Kil- 
; while, on the to 
is road, which runs at the 
gobnet. ag i: pursu 
he erred of slow | base of the Reeks for about pore miles, I t to the 
teresting. | left, and was soon in the midst of an amphitheatre of 
mountains, which rose grandly before me. The. way 
y visi y me—Con- | now binini rough, bad, and indistin 5 that I was 
ast year.” Of| rather puzzled, in the absence of a guide, respecti 
description, which we | further rogress, and was doubtful how to eae 
ts. at will | when I pd a couple of peasants rushing to 
t in the eyes of | down aslope. They were as rg as the gp. biog tom 
nd the inhabited, and altho to eni ice as 
es 
acting as my gui 
of the Reek 
ll | Tual.—* Five shillings, yer honour.’ 
much,’— 
rs had becom 
Mont Blanc; 
sae moe, Ke erry Reek, with its pregita buttr tresses, nat 
Uer whichdome- t 
ye Rages AE 
4 yN 
heights will consider the i ve thé ‘ Devil’s Ladder’ 
not a difficult undertaki it ca nevertheless, 
be found sufficiently ta lly ae 
the anol of Ca 
der 
half t 8 ascent huga to take advani 
of the auxiliary ass ance of your 
“Having ga aod “the top of the ladies we came to 
a saddle- R aa ridge, not unlike that. on Snowdon, 
ing ep. on on the south side, 
rises. to the w y 
steep climb, which occupied us s nay an hour, The 
top of this:picturesque and grand mountain is composed 
of w oT-worn masses mg felspar parse a -red porphyry, 
the SeN an. elliptic of Sever tt -y feet in the 
ou 
un 
within whose dark breasts iny tarns, which gleam 
like molten aad beyond these, but more to ~ south, 
her soft outl iver oo 
Roman 
he will tell you that it was from. th Lacka- 
baun that the Saint blessed Kerry. T south-west, 
more peaks, among which the Glencar mountains and 
are conspicuous; Cape Sona a 
A 
-a-crown, nr de hook’— 
A ‘Iwill siie you three shina, and 
H 
the. Reeks 
y form in the distance ; to the west, ‘pale, 
t d h; and Heads, and 
bays. and 
at | Sli of tude os 
the pais go home ee were a 
y housed i in as 
d, I commenced the ascent of the moun- 
tain at eleven. o'clock, the oe giving good promise 
ofa 
pl we followed a herd- 
ountain torrent. Observing with 
n. easy parpi vy mag rd this stream, a a as it is, ig 
assuring him that frequently for a space into tranquil poo anges 
hings — panion, Pat ive ig sip by the ways I 
mmend to the reader who may visit the 
on of ascending Carran-Tual, 
y 
the there were fis 
wonder. yer honour, and ia Sas ons 
er than they of this noble eg ayer se 
entertained fo 
De a hostel ae 
onli yer pcm 
Blasquets ; and. to the 
by a thin white the 
| Atlantic where it chafes the cliffs. If you 
nate as 
curl upwards i a 
your impressions of. the grandeur and vastness o 
Oe ite increased.” i 
On our way down we saw great troops of goats 
ir ledges overhanging grim 
bound throughout the 
f dogs to 
lored rr district. all ths trafi was 
ean of horses, a 
to see twenty horses 
Eac 
on 
o uncommon si sobs 
paths. } ; 
the exceptional yog i, fe en a peasant, haring only 
arket aon g astone on the oppositi 
side ~ the fe sya as-a a comnterpoiea, 
is. car illarney, an 
i hie railway to Waterford, Cork, or Du 
and even better matter sagt Weld’s volume 
traveller a a more agreeable 
rivers and even brooks, is sufficien 
ts.in favour of the that my seed pobahiy told the truth. Tor, 
indorsed b es ee and ho _ the 
peasants o 
of the period odical good Pariin ahidi visits cats: ie in 
Ehanit toa 
pounds in’ amount, pran o lusty salmon which ascend the Giddah vid the 
them to cross th age 
persons an d Glen, where a witch of evil is 
cial yapa over the flocks and pig 
tain slo 
ony 
preju 
t opes. You shown 
maae elevation eb rhe enjoyed by lo ite | Seth a dark inky-looking lake, _ ‘she gor her | 
and e others, has crowned Carran-Tual | mship 
eet, a which 
understand how it could er ever- have been 
sojourning at. the heroes Hotel last su pae, 
Unable 
on the a l 
| contorted limbs-in companio: his 
m | Satanic majesty, wh, aapa Sa a pipea etA Wr lough | su 
assigned to his that you may have an 
impressive idea of the Tasa rae of y“ fees 
attention is a to a huge ting from = 
moun si a considerable om mog which y 
are told is “pe ofh he teeth 
5 over chaotic débris of mountain-masses, 
hag, your | to 
ces, and bolder 
on i the sides of anew. 
“Being wantin ess of rocks, extending | Po 
an ascent: i _ for three aie above ‘the det we reenter i the Hag’s 
idan Wieinasitias te 
HEDEN S pprap lisa pageant a 
and exten- 
in a favoured 
e so 
t thia 
e int ing 
sive that Be om i growers, exol ex 
we have exce à the m 
district wear a din at e 16th of A 
italy the fing Broccoli and Radish 
diately 
supplied from the ai naan gerry 
Poi as pire. "cru arema what are call 
e Pot 
which so 
dents have lately rsa recommending. By us 
pu or that purpose he denos the 
uld be deprived of a large amount of 
oat a 1 their employment he felt would 
no security ponies. t disease, In order 
after a contin of hot, dry weather, he is of ue 
that if the hanim ` is nearly ripe it should be eut of to 
a i gs precipice, closing the edt south, 
Le 
ent the g a bp 
boil well, the eae pant hard rt the outside 
Sean | p 
code nee i pee ae to know how it 
| should bear the foul fiend’s nam: 
| staircase is appropriatel lg 
„| “The head ayo familiar with diiy 
i sbon As you draw nearer shin 
i water 
(hy, ge o x 
he, | tion 
; and certainly, 
rule that unlovely ote m and na aa localities. 
this precipitous rock. 
date 
od of drought an rts sun- 
and 
to become 
strong divine eating off the 
vided the latter shows symptom ng 
ripe, and the tubers have Gained e fd r useful 
failed to yield a profitable 
his atten- 
to Strawberry S S preen hag 
He — thre 
f es (which a oor 
Mr. Ingram’ sort bearing 
his Princess Royal of England. The good 
tion almost wholly to 
