The Hill other botanical garden belonging to Trinity College, and having 
of Howth done so to give himself time to explore both of them to the 
uttermost. 
From Glasnevin a very little energy will carry our horti- 
culturist to the hill of Howth, where some of the most 
successful of the gardens in this neighbourhood are to be found. 
Howth—you need not by the way pronounce the w in 
that word, unless you particularly wish to do so !—is, as everyone 
knows, the narrow-necked peninsular running across the 
northern portion of the mouth of Dublin bay. To the dweller 
upon the side of that bay which lies nearest to the town of 
Dublin it is apt to present a blunted and somewhat truncated 
profile; indeed as a limit of vision and terminus to the land- 
scape I will own to having an imperfect appreciation of it 
myself. To desire to drown eyes and thought in a line of 
quivering air and water, and to have perpetually a solid, not 
particularly impressive object intervening between you and that 
desire, tends in the end to irritation. Jet our captious objector 
make the circuit of his bay, however, and let him ascend the 
obstacle in question, and his prejudice will be found to vanish 
in a flash, Although not, as just said, of any lofty or 
menacing acclivity, this hill of Howth possesses, by reason of its 
peculiar combination of river, sea, shore, and sky, an unwonted, 
in my experience a unique, harmony and diversity of aspect, 
one which it may challenge even the haughtiest of its rivals 
to surpass. This largeness and diversity of aspect, as well as 
other desirable things, the gardens upon it share, to their great 
and manifest advantage. 
Of such gardens there is one that must be named at once 
—that of the ancient castle of Howth itself. Unlike the 
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