168 THE 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[Avcust 8, 1894, 
ITALIAN GARDENS. 
Prsa Botanic GARD comparatively 
short distance from the “* Etrurian Athens” lies the 
by side 
iq and in juxtaposition to still 
more ancient relics of Roman times. It is no 
of these Notes by the Way, to speak of these Old 
World treasures, nor of the incomparable architec- 
tural features of this famous city. It is, nevertheless, 
quite within our: province to mention the ci tan 
, and some of which 
are not less than five centuries old, representations may 
be seen of the pyramidal Cypress so pareant to this 
very day throughout Italy, and o al 
which flourishes well, -even Pls it does not 
p ae Tn its = slong. the northern shores of the 
We may also add that the stiffness 
and fsb npprecanes o aes in the back- 
of Raffaelle’s pictures, ose of other 
talian painters of same “date, is not, as might 
ce of conventionalism. 
oah’s Ark, may be found in many a valley amid the 
ines. any a lo 
did we see en route which might have been 
Raffaelle as a bac 
Another point of geen scenery noteworthy, 
the so _— fba ly we cannot 
he'p i that th uture ae hr nd 
d:pends on its water Aadi to no small ex 
rivers of It classical iber, pei 0. 
We re in our earliest days, we dream of 
them in later years, yet same rivers, seen in 
are merely wide, flat, stony in surf; 
of the land, with a tiny streamlet picking its 
È 
ae 
9S, 
F 
a 
torrent, 
sammer dry and waterless, Fertile 
fertile, traversed 
n spring and 
S plaine onder 
e ole, the 
similar on both sides of the central 
Pisa has many attractions Re Ge Iid, few even 
-of the “hundred cities ” of Italy can 
historical and and architectural 
fa in (6) 
the imate it is pirrar to 
many pew which i in less favoured spots it is not 
ially 
ate ee a Its trees 
are most remar e. Its tories, museums, and 
herbaria, though no the largest or most 
' their purpose, are in 
the 1 
in some establish- 
stately do-nothing 
arrangement of the Oxford Botanic Garden, with its 
beds of different sizes and sha is perhaps the 
nearest a 
r corresponding 
This involves the necessity of 
connote pir to the catalogue, which, to 
y the least, is not convenient. 
Horticult sheis speaking, the trees form the most 
remarkable feature of the en A Å Hone ——— 
dating from the el of the 
ears o obese pagt 
eig Apen bole 4 feet in diameter at 4 feet 
from the pak and with bark like that of 3 a Walnut, 
and in whose interstices Cotyledon Umbilicus grows as 
aweed. A Quercus Tauzin measures 24 metres. A 
lendi ilia argentea is 26 metres high, Beech 
attains 23 metres. C Lebanon of great 
imensions are here to be seen, and a noble Magnolia 
grandiflora 14 metres high 
1 
utus and with a smooth 
we do not e seen 
biana imbricata, a greenhouse shrub with 
us, here Hoot a dense bush, 12 feet high, covered 
with flower. The Loquat attains rge size 
and ripens its fruit, as also in other parts of Italy. 
Of that fruit, how: wever, we cannot s igh’y 5 ; we 
incline to the opinion expressed “jh English says 
to whom we sat next at dinner one da 
, and who, 
being t told in replyto a question as to what the fruit (Lo- 
glot waiter, ‘Italian A pricot, madame.” ‘*Oh, indeed, a 
was her reply ; “‘I prefer English Apricots !” 
o resume our notes of the more sateresting trees 
and shrubs, we may mention Callitris quadrivalvis, 
Fontanesia phillyrzoides, 20 feet high, in full pi ; 
Eucalypti, of course ; Metrosideros, te other New 
Holland plants; Deeringia) Amhersti variegata, an 
i variegated 
. y ment otay, en w: us laurifolius, 
with elegant drooping habit ; mar a rich collection = 
Conifers ; but "e are catal making, and that 
must su = to say, that the pi 
lection of trees ae shrubs’ is, in many w: 
pecim = A ag sae refrain from on. 
a imen of the Tussac Ag ok 
PIE hich the largest we have 
Brtain i isa 
occupy an area of ag ea metres 
contents 
the grounds at th time of our viit (lisy ai 
unimportant by the side rage een 
numerous, 
ordinarily rich out-of-door collections. 
he Museums are 
ook part in it as one of the most memorable 
of the Florence International Exhibition and bren. ae 
Congress. Perhaps, we may here add, a recep- 
tion like this by the university authorities and 
scientific bodies is to most culturists, and specially to 
most botanists, a — acceptable thing than a ro 
a which after all must be more i 
sham i 
such universities as P ua, 
een aer Pisa, but would value a aroe: from 
r Continental friends yver to 
decorate their coats’ wit 
PERFORATED FLOWER-POTS. 
H ot a new invention, are prob 
trivance of the Dutch, for the ativan’ and eer 
ment indoors of the spring bulbs*of which they are 
fond, And, as old fashion 
00 n the apartment, the court- 
, the pyr or Fille tain 
B, fig. 36, no! bre? or form, is the perforated 
bulb-pot, empty. Itst a light saucer or circular 
dis e of the same ater as itself, which may 
be p et common red flower-pot clay, or earthenware 
and orname i si 
rainage from the earth inside ; 
the globular portion is pierced with om regularly 
p in quincunx order, and sufficiently large to 
allow a Crocus, placed inside, to 
aperture. without, however, fallin 
orifice m ge en 
round them must be stopped wit 
earth from falling ou 
orifice can be planted with a a Hyacinth, a 
N or other early-flowering bulb, and may t 
another ci 
arcissus, or ] 
surrounded, if there is room, with 
rocuses, or of Van Thol Tulips, Siberian 
Dogs’-tooth age or even a simple fringe of moss 
(see fig. 36, ih 
— air 5 at the great 
of thriving in the ho wed and sunniest exposure 
(as “ae as in the shade), and driest at 
i ts roots are kepi nently moist, With 
the last condition well fulfilled it is sometimes found 
wild and self-sown in the most extraordinary situations. 
Ems ae Amélie-les-Bains (Oriental Pyrenees) is a 
woul e great iron- 
masters ;_iron-ore is but no coal, 
Water-power, derived 
