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group with one another nor with any thing else. The soil, except 

 a few inches on the surface, is naturally of pure chalk. The 

 entrance to this cemetery is Roman, while the church to which it 

 belongs and adjoins, and the catacombs it contains, are Gothic. 



Hanover Chapel has a burying-ground which is quite unique. 

 A straight avenue of elm trees leads from the entrance-gate to 

 the door of the chapel ; and on each side of the gravel walk, 

 which runs down the centre of the avenue, is a narrow margin of 

 smooth highly kept grass. Next, there is on each side a neat 

 low wire fence, beyond which is the burying-ground, the greater 

 part of which is dug and planted with herbaceous plants, inter- 

 spersed with low trees and flowering shrubs, and divided by 

 walks, in some places straight and in others winding. The whole 

 is interspersed with graves and grave-stones, and as the gates in 

 the wire fence are all kept locked, no person is allowed to walk 

 among the graves who is not admitted by the gardener. Every 

 recent grave is covered with a mound of green turf, kept smooth 

 by clipping or mowing, and all the rest of the ground is kept 

 dug and planted; so that no flowers can be said to be grown on 

 the recent graves, but only beside them. The recent graves 

 are those in which interments have taken place within two or 

 three years ; and are always known by being covered with green 

 turf, which is kept fresh by watering, and short and thick by fre- 

 quent mowing. Nothing that we ever saw in a cemetery or church- 

 yard comes up to the high keeping displayed in this one. The 

 walks and their edges were perfect; the grass every where like 

 velvet ; the dug ground as fresh and garden-like as if it had been 

 recently dug and raked ; the flowers neatly staked and tied up, 

 where tying was required ; and not a single decayed flower or leaf 

 could we observe any where. The boundary walls were covered 

 with ivy and other climbers, and we observed trained on them 

 one or two fig trees and some other plants of the tree kind; but 

 as, in consequence of the wire fence, we could not get into the 

 interior walks, we speak only of what we saw from the avenue. 



The Royal Tea Garden in the outskirts of the town is on a 

 level surface, and might be made a scene of considerable 

 attraction. It has been ten or twelve years planted, and the 

 Jrees are 30 ft. high and upwards, and thriving as well as could 

 be desired. There is a handsome broad straight walk down the 

 centre of the garden, completely and densely shaded by elms ; a 

 great variety of side walks and side scenes, such as open 

 circular areas of gravel, of flower-beds, of arbours and other 

 rustic structures, of basins of water, &c. There is a sunk oval 

 area of turf, 100 ft. by 200 ft., surrounded by an open lawn, which 

 may serve as a verdant amphitheatre, or for a large company to 

 see a play acted on a temporary platform, to hear music, or see 

 fireworks, for a dance, a fancy fair, a masquerade, or other 



