818 HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



monstrosity of Sedum virens often cultivated in gardens. 

 Aquatic plants, instead of occupying the borders of a pond, 

 are kept in strong oaken boxes of great length, divided by 

 occasional partitions, so that the depth of water can be va- 

 ried. Many of the plants had flowered in this situation. 



After the lapse of more than a century, we could hardly 

 expect to find alive any of the plants described and figured 

 by the Commelyns *. But in this garden also, most of 

 Thunberg's eastern rarities were first cultivated ; and se- 

 veral large bushes of Aucuba Japonica caught our eye 

 as probably original plants, nor have we any reason to 

 doubt that we were right in our conjecture. We saw 

 one large plant of Camellia Japonica ; but the many 

 fine varieties which enrich our English collections are near- 

 ly unknown in Holland. — A specimen of Weeping-oak, 

 Quercus robur, var. pendula, about twelve feet high, ap- 

 peared to us an interesting novelty. Young stocks of the 

 common oak were at this time planted around, in order 

 to their being grafted, by approach, with the pendent va- 

 riety ; Mr Pfister intending to send a plant to Paris, where 

 it is a desideratum even in the Jardin des Plantes. Should 

 our projected Experimental Garden be established, we 

 make little doubt of prevailing on the curator to transmit 

 another to Edinburgh. Of other hardy trees, the most re- 

 markable seemed to us to be a large deciduous cypress, the 

 stem of which, at two feet from the ground, measured 5 feet 

 4 inches in circumference. 



In returning homeward, we passed through the Jews' 



Quarter. In consequence of the kermis, several thou- 



Buda of the Royal People were now on the streets. The 



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