692 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [JULY 26, 1862, 
Blumei and Verschaffelti the Delta, watered by the eder of the Nile, | axe fr reely, which I saw afterwards 
vollections. These hel Sls Lt deserve n and when the Nile recedes s byn us canals, from | the satisfaction of the e Prince, who isan 
favour shown them, and the Im perial Hortie ultural | which water is lifted by ern B E e rino an English garden, with Grass Pali &c. Fol 
Society only performs an act ot justice old Egyptian contrivance for ater,| one of the broad walks at a right angle with Кы 
their production ; but why need they associate Е edP with cogwheels, and a skeleton pe^ Vect Е entrance I found a magnificent kiosk which had been 
th hose miserable sickly discoloured abortions, oie which suspended exuidiébinitly are two looped| built by Mahomed Ali, aad it is still certainly the finest 
hich they have so emphatically confe! rred the | ropes, made ss ^x lm fibre; the loops are shortened an za hing of its kind at the presert time in Бурі; 
title of variegated plants? Some of these t e water rises and falls, and are Кер | a square pile of building, having marbl 
tolerable, and we might endure them if they - were in position by ү of Short pieces. of. stout sticks, entrance doorway; a large basin occupi 
introduced with discretion, but in masses they of the court, covering early an асте of 
hideous, and the infatuation for these romains of bad tl e trough as the wheel revolves. lions and griffins- jet water from a raised Pavilion 
cultivation is become such, that cultivators do not| The water is idi on land by means of mud|in hes шө and from the outer corners of. the 
hesitate to exhibit groups composed of nothing else. слане or small canals. Before the introduction of|b ngles of the square are occupied 
It is just as if a sovereign wishing to give some |steam the Lac ckia was the chief means e! iis d bud a iliard Toom, Кей ы room, bed room, and lib 
pog traveller an ide of the people he governed, | for irrigation, am thousands o ‹ тей рто menade suppor 
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prie of every sort. Nothing moreover shows | pumps of great power are adopted, which compel | gas lamps. Tho E gyptians boast that Mahomed m 
plainly the ugliness of these pla nts than massing | Le А to tra à hes thousands of acres. introduced gas here before it was used by the good 
them together Жа if that is what exhibitors wish to | So vantageous contrivances been | people of Paris, and also that the great Pasha used t; 
Ee they have succeeded perfectly and deserve our | found to be, that a a 80 оте engine E pump are ed refresh. gei on а summer's evening by being drawn 
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jew ways of pruning and training fruit e reel they need few repairs for 10 or 15 years. At the time I | present is its shady walk of Acacia Ledbeck; little has 
lenty to sal ibition of the |speak of, the Delta and the whole of the Valley of the | been Ser in the introduction of rare trees, anil 
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lo not wish to speak ill of anything, but surely such nation can depict; these are occasionally broken by | 'The next garden wort d ot notice made by Mahomed 
rifles are more fit to amuse little suburban amateurs | tracts of Cotton, peopled by scores of ragged Arab | dde is the опе їп Ше Esbequia, а large оре n place in 
han to d consideration. The y however boys and girls, who under the е on of а driver Cairo and many 
a want in our isa that of best e busy ga Med A snowy pro A distant private houses ccüpied bo y Europeans and Egyp- 
ттн и hobby, though at the risk of seizing some | village, and some Date Palm trees аду rand tians. The Es Бота was pas а bes of he 
Shadow instead of a substance the quiet monotony а the te tle m : а. of | but cl ыч a аит form Ur a public 
interest offers itself on the way beyond bales of cotton | garden by the above-nam asha—this, pi is in the 
EUR M kopy pt over from last zeten ш irty Arabs at the different stations, or the fine с h ex than 
> T ге mere bridgesbuilt by Robert Stephenson, tocarry the railway garden at Shubra; the chief hd radiate 
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i i ваше ki ths and so; fine avenues in the vicinity of Cairo, path is styled by foreigners. In the interior are some 
Лет”, clearly showing that he knows good fruit from | Were, crea feted by him, Among these the Garden | fine trees of Ficus indica and Cathartocarpus Fistula, 
bad. Let a jackdaw disguise himself in the features of а Кы and the magnificent avenue of Буса- | which in spring are covered with golden racemes as 
i 5 k'as m he likes, but let him а be taken | 0 add trees by whi ch it is eo iE e het from large as those of a Wistaria. In this garden some of 
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The, bost t intentions xs often frustrat ed hy eiat, > | half old would have in =ч tie was vx glory ra н es Ph else have seen for making 
w,a door is opened to fraud, which must be поз |06 the declining dave - A modern Solomon— | quick hedgerows. mer Shubra, this garden hu 
prejudicial to p and ^to all true gardeners. Mahomed Ali, and he often went with great pageantry been and still is much neglected; having m 
Naudin in Revue Horticoi from Cairo to visit the fair " houris of the Garden; after boundary fence, it is the resort of all the dogs in the 
his deat ^ it was some time in rine: ce and. much. reri, wapa and of the still dirtier The 
. TER соата оза пер glect rarely — у respectable people, who 
Fi mes тец s to boundary avenues. J 
EGYPTIAN GARDENING. " ho merus бурап rein who bids а to make d the last time r na poni this garden 
Eaxrr, ihe land of mystery—ever that—in arta and Shubra vum its T glory, M entrance to the | that а great аше of it was being dug up aud culti- 
sciences of әй and socially and political ow, | Garden is through an elabora n gateway, which | vated with market gar crops, and that a large 
Those lio. e trave lled [xm only, find оп зе would "i disgrace a du =} ет ог б ом аб home. A ion on the south side was being enclosed ! 
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Costu: pet donkeys, i of | hài ndomà.) гб Бема. just erected on the vm of an as 
every erri irae de of Sa Elizabethan e eni vo t the | the Nile. усте this, оп an elevated mound оЁ погћегп Тете have sprung u the 
dashing c ones of modern да; ays —antique enough o ó the е ^ form ста з angles, stands the Prince s| wooden shanties, flourishing under the name of сав 
Kiosk, a place ing male visitara i being Café d'Italia, Café de France, Café Concert, and C: 
colours on the other to make a sensation in RUE How agains е the Moslim etiquette to introduce them to any  Elysóe--there is, we have — ш be thankful, nothing 
or the Bois de Boulogne, constantly attract attention. | ibd е оя building j just named. English amongst them. In front are placed numero 
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and the eternal oh aw, riglac (look out! mind your 12 feet high. The tw ок ones Are. е н by German bands, This place has has resolved itself into 
legs) of Pre and scises,* keeps the poor pedestrian, | Mandarin Orange. telo and flowering shrubs. | sort of арс en Row for Cairo, with "this exception, that side. 
r donkey equestrian, in constant fear and 1 trembling The third is laid down bes Grass, -— the aristocratic greyhound and dirty cu E 
ей the safety of his Cashmere, p ot bare |18 kept in excellent order. he upper ТЕШ а groat pity that the gar arden has visit 
ч Then the oaths, Merano t and execrations of | 91 н ch the Kiosk stands is eed with "Miik state, bu t probably the Viceroy ' will quof wi is 
Arabs, Syrians, Greeks, Levantines, and Jews—all lead | "81016 t by bis 
one to believe that he has just reached the spot where | Р lants, and others contain vases' taste efully arranged, Ibrahim Pasha imitated the example set of 
that celebrated monument the Tower of oes fell, | The Kiosk is graceful but unpretending in stru ucture, | Pr шун and obtained from the R. "Hortieultural Sed 
when each spoke the jargon most convenient to him skilfully furnis isho d and deco tated, and in the Prince’s | Englan ery excellent and highly intelligent gar 
But to advert to Egyptian gardening, let e p thë studio are some g water- colour drawings done Ww dener, Me. Tra ill, who remained upwar ards o of 20 y 
reader that if he should reach Egypt as I did in the his Highness ho is tl e who can | Egypt. Under Mr. Traill’s direction gardening in ihe 
month of December, he must prepare himself for а claim t kindred feeling EX "professo of t the fine assume a higher order. He was assiduous 1 
scene, such as would greet him if he had Чгоррей, from | arts. The garden is divi by measa of straight | introduction and acclimatising of new plants, Mang? 
after a dripping walks and venues, Seir in the Dutch piae but it | owes several of her newer fruits to his саге. ar саме: 
Apt: and ced May in England, such as veterans only |! s d te of any preconceived or regular design. Guava, Papaw, and Loquat were of Ыз int 
mem It was the work of Greek gardeners, who have long | Ibrahim Pasha was the most liberal patron of gard 
та entering Alexandria опе feels disappointed; the | kiere. € pc in Egypt ; the walks are bounded | Egypt has yet known, He placed money direction го 
fertile Valley formed of that hi ighly and justly vi aunted | So н - i Mr. x n the Rhods 
fertile V: owing to | Sometimes they. are cut square, but aiton they the once celebrated garden of Rhoda, 0 the finest 
city being placed slight eminence near the | undulating ; the compar ve are filled with all Yinds mm. said e have contained аб one rugis world. 
seabord. Ti pr еч the town are some avenues of | itself, but often ollection of Palms and — ng ратй 
Acacia Ledbeck (considerably the quickest growing tha ‘Ве 1 mixed and planted so close toge т Peler Wallace, Terri T Turnham Green, 
tree in Egypt) and of the Sycamore Fig. Onel, o er Tis gdn ci Yn ban t Egyptian riens 
or two fine groves of Date Palm, and some solitary ао сец ast of the ont ошаш | 
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Palms of other kinds, strike the eye in conjunction co ld itrons and Oranges to be Du. i in denin 
ki domes and minarets, giv me tb whole a Шш ME Shaddock S. Sultan, the large Sh aid ock, and Wubow ioc Sar E 
рес any REG aspect, „екш Alexandri by р маман. Blood, and other Orange E the their nel. A short time ago І rendre ibed 
$ Pear Lemon; Lih Мент of sour Limes,|from an inhabitan Tus a bmp Pa EU planis, but sid — 
and two ог three sweet kinds; Peach trees, Apricots, | himself as being exceedingly fond | “i 
Rd i» час meh a e expect | Figs, Pomegranates, Plums, Apples Жу FA T M that he had am at present balked jn every rupi ; 
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E ice villas are residences of | firs p ees Haleen Pasha had a Belgian gardener, | “The leaves turned yellow, the etii and red 
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he had just arrived, and the fellow was in a ned; aphides attacked the ready t0 
^ ont bef ета ie tiat piain ta pot ot Tand own perfect dilemma. as to where Ў hin poa x to | spider ti the Fuchsias.” Аб yos he was — that 
> ас, temp He said, ** Voyez Moog monsieur; ce n'est е upin despair one of the grea еа they live in 
еп who run bef, pas un jardin p t ш un buses. ; diable! que voulez | 9e who are fond of coun «iom pave 
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CUM | vous que je fasse?" ended him to apply the | towns—the delight of cherishing а little spot І 
