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pretty things, and which allow the plants to 

 cling freely on all sides. In England one can find 

 them ready-made and of neat workmanship, 

 whether as gates, arches, overhead trellis, broken 

 pillars, or little obelisks; here, however, they 

 must be made by capable smiths from drawings. 



Among other effects a very pretty one is 

 Glycine sinensis trained on an overhead shelter 

 like an umbrella, when its thick blue clusters 

 of flowers show through the wire interstices. 

 (See Plate XIV, i ; and the arch 2, for an orna- 

 mental entrance planted with Cobea scandens; 

 and 3, the gilt aureole glory [Vergoldeten Glorie), 

 on which various kinds of clematis are climbing ; 

 or 4, the blue basket with gilt tips crowned with 

 red Bignonia radicans; 5 is a flower basket whose 

 edge is made of leaves made of tiles.) The 

 leaves are furnished underneath with long spikes 

 which fix them in the earth, and so can with 

 little trouble be put in and taken out one by 

 one. It is a cheap, durable, and at the same time 

 very ornate, border. 



We now return, with the reader's permission 

 (whose patience I hope I have not exhausted), 

 to our promenade, and we ascend the steps (/) 

 which lead to the great castle landing where we 

 must linger awhile. One can see on the plan 

 that a flight of steps forty feet wide starts from 

 the landing, and leads by fifteen steps of granite 

 to the lawn of the bowling green before the 

 castle. In front of the steps are four flower beds, 

 and a little farther on a resting-place at a colos- 



