DESIRE TO VISIT YEDO. 
CHAPTER XII. 
lvitation from the American Minister to visit Yedo — Inland road — 
Nanka-nobu tea-garden — Extraordinary Glycine Pleasant lanes 
and hedges — Civility of the people — Arrive at the American 
Legation — Guard and spies — Large tree — Unpleasant diplomatic 
correspondence — Nursery gardens in the country visited — Summer 
flowers and new plants — Return to Yedo — A ride in the country 
— Mr. Heuskin’a tomb — “Temple of Twelve Altars Poets’ 
Avenue — How a drunken Japanese n 
horses — Departure from Yedo — Genei 
Having ransacked the country in the vicinity of 
Yokuhama and Kanagawa, I was very desirous of 
paying another visit to the capital. The nursery- 
gardens of Sumae-yah and Dang-o-zaka, in which 
I had found so many new plants during the pre- 
vious winter, had no douht many others of interest 
which could only be judged of in spring or early 
summer; but Yedo was a sealed city to all who 
were not officials, unless they were specially invited 
as guests by their minister at the Court of the 
Tycoon. Unfortunately his Excellency Mr. Alcoek, 
to whom I had been indebted for much kindness 
and hospitality on a former occasion, was now 
absent in China, and it was generally reported that 
no Englishman would be allowed to visit the city 
until he returned. Under these circumstances I 
