HOETICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Behind tlie Memorial and large Chestnut-tree, and shaded by 

 its boughs, stood, during the Exhibition year, a colossal statue 

 of Mile a prey to the Lion when caught by the cleft tree which 

 he had vainly essayed to rend asunder. This was a copy of 

 the original by Puget, an artist of the reign of Louis XIV., 

 of such eminence as to have received from some the name 

 of the French Michael Angelo. The work was considered of 

 the highest merit; too much so, perhaps, many of the Fellows 

 of the Society considering the expression of suffering in the 

 strong man's face and attitude too painfully exact to be an 

 agreeable object. It was, therefore, not one of those bronzes 

 which the Fine Arts Committee sought to retain. Since its 

 removal, its place has been supplied by a work by Eauch, 



somewhat in the same gcm'c, cast in zinc-bronze by Moritz 

 Geiss, a Shepherd attacked by a young Lion, a work riot less 

 artistic and skilful in expression than the Milo, but less pain- 

 ful; the shepherd hero having a chance for his life, and being 

 effectively aided by his dog. 



The two statues beside the western small basin are by 



