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Among the herbaceous plants of the borders, the Large. 

 flowered Pimpernel (Anogall'is fridicosa) held a distin^ 

 guished place, the flowers being at this season highly orna- 

 mental. Many patches of it were now flourishing in the 

 open border ; it being, however, a biennial plant, the seed- 

 lings had been raised last year, and we have reason to think 

 had passed the winter under glass, and been planted out in 

 the spring of the present year, — Some of the varieties of 

 hollyhock which were scattered up and down the borders, 

 appeared to us both uncommon and beautiful, 



In addition to the old garden of Clusius and Boerhaave, 

 which does not greatly exceed two English acres, a new gar- 

 den, of at least equal extent, is now forming. The site of tjris 

 supplemental garden is very favourable j it is immediately 

 adjoining to the other ; and while it is washed on two sides 

 by a branch of the Rhine, which here makes a fine sweep, 

 it is, at the same time, raised high above the level of the 

 water, a great mass of earth having, in past times, been ac- 

 cumulated here, in the course of fortifying the city. In 

 the planning of this new garden, the style peculiarly deno- 

 minated Dutch, has been entirely departed from ; and the 

 English style has been adopted, as far as circumstances would 

 permit. This is judicious enough; the two modes being 

 thus, in some measure, directly contrasted, An extensive 

 Linnean arrangement, we were told, is to be formed in the 

 new garden; and indeed it is already begun ; Bu^ if the 

 progress made in the two past seasons, afford a test by which 

 to judge of the probable exertions in the future, it will be a 

 H good many years before this arrangement be completed, 

 and before the now garden assume its proper appearance. 

 W'licii I Ins happens, the Botanic Garden of Leyden will 

 ni < few rivals. A very Strange sort of substitute for gra- 

 • <! ii here employed on the walks-, they ere laid with a 



