GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 26, 1874, 
ks, a they spoke of the ‘‘ion,” or 
ae chee of the ‘' Viola,” generally meant our 
Violet, and that the Violet-wreaths were made from 
ili ine er. 
SE Aego ‘che wea e was perhaps a used, pat it is 
g fobii tha t the flow which Ovid re- 
highly prob passage which i; oe: Sta tanhope quotes ; 
was the Snowflak e or Leucoion (literally, ‘‘ White 
Violet ” 
1 fe E ord pe mesic s paper was first read as long 
back as 1830 
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FOUNTAINS. 
beneath the ill- Sase een pedestal that supports the 
statue of Shakspeare. 
riateness many oO 
Cetin and Swiss towns are preferable to the more 
paciryade structures in Italy. 
g on of the beauty of appro- 
ee the r mpler fountains in the old 
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wo = hibition held a Florence in the course of the | since bg ge a elk d yoatea maian taste has 
past s as the fou To this antry p at the original jet has been restore 
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At Canterbury, in the middle of the long avenue 
FIG, 80.—TRITON FOUNTAIN IN THE FLORENCE EXHIBITION, 
and it ns a jce if we have not constructed o 
such a 
? as entirely disregarded 
ea for which the so-called fountain a ed 
ere is a glaring instance of this in the 
fiesta lately placed in Lames Reni S ad 
which traverses > pay public garden beneath the 
old walls of the city, a similar mistake has been made 
of erecting a “ing ews pmen J from kg Euston 
Road, while in the basin surr ing it eb 
Osm! ek ther Ferns os yem de ‘well How 
far more effectiv propriate would have na 
simple jet in this situation. The Ferns then would 
have been quite in place ; as it is, rop wonders which 
is most out of place—the fountain o 
At Flo 
rence, as we ie already nad very 
one of the most beautiful feai f the Exhibition 
consisted in 
the noble jet which, ping p from 
spacious marble basin nearly to the roof of “che build- 
ing. At one end of the Pigg pe 
over mimic roc nifers an 
other shrubs. The idea sg eg t there was 2 
deficiency of water-—there ; generally is y such co 
struct 
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Piia in ae side -n of the ‘Florence Exhibaees 
It may readily be see better the Triton 
fountain would hea fessi | the two side 
figures been removed. They have nothing whate ever 
to do w 
ith the fountain, and are altogether out of 
place. 
THE SCOTTISH ARBORICUR 
TURAL SOCIETY. 
take sha fokiewing aume from the address 
F.R S.E 
nual meeting ‘of the pei Some from the recently 
i Tra ions. r. Cleghorn began his a 
by thanking the Society for the honour they had done 
a , and r ing — gratification at By pre 
of any oO inbers, much 
sppeopratiaill i the President alluded to the Kinda 
ot Eronet. SERR ith whose permission the 
eeting w in ihe lecture-hall of the Botanie 
Garden, rich, ‘ike its Museum, in objects of interet 
and a 
to nen ge and scientific foresters, adres 
pro with the subject-matter of his 
bales. — 
s a large proportion of those present h ha 
joined our ranks, i 
