almost any point of view 'wliicli the spectator can select. 

 When these statues were being placed upon their pedestals, 

 we accidentally overheard the re- 

 marks of the workmen employed 

 in the work, and the criticism 

 of one of them struck us as re- 

 markably good : — "I like that 

 one best ; she is coming heartily 

 forward, as if there was no doubt 

 about it ; the other one is hold- 

 ing her wreath half back, as if 

 she had not quite made up her 

 mind." 



The statues beside the small 

 basin on the east side are copies 

 in zinc-bronze from the originals, of 

 the well-known statues of Urania 

 (in the Louvre), and the Venus ^ 

 d'Arles. 



I 



RIBBON BEDS AND COLOURED GRAVELS. 



' ' And what a wilderness of flowers ! 

 It seem'd as tliongli from all the bowers 

 And fah'est fields of all the year, 

 The mingled spoil were gathered here." — Moore. 



There are a good many (some think too many) examples of 

 coloured gravel and ribbon beds in the Garden. 



In the first place, we have four beds composed entirely of 

 coloured gravels and Box, mthout any intermixture of bedding- 



