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Among the hardy trees may be noticed a very tall Ging- 

 ko, the tallest, though not the handsomest, we have seen. 

 The Edward sia grandiflora of New Zealand, seems here to 

 flourish against a wall in the open border ; and several 

 specimens of the Gold Plant of Japan (Aucuba Japonica) 

 have acquired so large a size, being not less than ten feet 

 high, as to leave little doubt of their being nearly coeval 

 with the original plants sent home by Thunberg. 



The fund for the support of the garden being slender 

 and inadequate, plants and seeds are occasionally disposed 

 of, with the view of increasing its amount. But no cata- 

 logue of the plants has been published 



It was now the time of vacation, and little was to be 

 seen within the walls of the Academicum. In one apart- 

 ment is kept a model of the Sacred Temple reared by So- 

 lomon, formed precisely according to the description con- 

 tained in the First Book of Kings, on the scale of an inch to 

 the yard. This piece of laborious trifling occupied a former 

 learned Professor of Oriental Languages (Mill), for six 

 long years. The room destined for it, admits only one 

 half of the model to be displayed. 



The students have no apartments within the college po- 

 mceria, but lodge and board themselves with the inhabitants 

 of the town, as at our Scottish Universities. As a proof 

 that foreigners frequently resort thither, we may mention, 

 that the notice of a " room to let 11 is here given in Latin, 

 " Cubiculum locandum." 



The Mall 

 being in the neighbourhood of the University buildings, 

 we walked into it. This Mall has been celebrated for its 

 trees, ever since the days of Louis XIV., who took Utrecht 

 in summer 1672. and remained here several months. That 



