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occasionally thrown into increased murmurings by passing over 

 groups of stones, pebbles, &c, and at other times spreading into 

 small and silent lakes, is not only gratifying in itself, but affords 

 suitable convenience for the growth of aquatic plants, which 

 necessarily require such provision being made. 



There is no space assigned for experimental garden, pro- 

 pagating-houses, reserve-garden, or compost-ground. How such 

 a neglect could have happened, I am at a loss to conceive, as no 

 public, or even private, gardens of any pretensions are ever 

 without such conveniences. I think it also highly necessary, 

 that there should be conveniences near to the garden entrances 

 for waiting carriages, but nothing of this kind is shown in the 

 plan. 



Art. III. Desig7i for the Leeds Zoological and Botanical Gardens, 

 presented to the Provisional Committee by Joshua Major. Com- 

 municated to the " Gardener's Magazine" by Mr. Major. 



[The plan {fig. 69.) described in the following references, 

 is that to which Mr. Major alludes in the preceding article. 

 It certainly appears to us to be far preferable to the plan of 

 Mr. Billington in various respects, which are in a great measure 

 independent of the locality ; such, for example, as shutting out 

 the boundary fence; extending the arboretum round the whole; 

 keeping the water in the lowest part of the grounds ; having a 

 main walk and subordinate walks, &c. There are, however, 

 various other points in Mr. Major's letter, of which it is im- 

 possible to judge without knowing the locality. The letter 

 itself, taken as a whole, contains many excellent remarks of a 

 general nature, and shows such a thorough practical knowledge 

 of landscape-gardening, that the publication of it cannot fail to 

 be useful, if not to the Leeds Committee, at least to the enquir- 

 ing young gardener.] 



(The plan and references are, for the sake of convenience, given in the two 

 preceding pages.) 



Art. IV. Historical Notice of the Botanic Garden of Padua. 

 Communicated by Signor Giuseppe Manetti, of Monza. 



I send you the historical notices of the Botanic Garden of 

 the university of Padua, which I received not long ago from 

 Signor Robert de Visiani, Director of that establishment and 

 Professor of Botany. 



The garden of the university of Padua was founded by a 

 decree of the senate of the republic of Venice, bearing date 30th 



