Mdriatic, and the Mountains qf Carniola^ Carinthia, (^c. 87 
dropped from the branches by hundreds, when they were slightly 
shaken. 
After we had, in this manner, sufficiently enriched ourselves, 
we returned home to our habitation, at a very late hour, happy 
in the success which had repaid our labours. 
“ Hundsberg, April 60. — The Emperor is arrived to-day in 
Trieste, and was received with great ceremony, amidst a vast 
concourse of people. We remained in the house, engaged with 
our plants and beetles ; and, in the afternoon, visited a spot 
near us, as a new field for botanical research. We took a path 
which led from the village of St John, through woods and vine- 
yards. The former consists of underwood, and extends so far 
as to be lost in the Karsch. It is a glorious botanical tract, 
which promises amply to reward our investigations. We named 
it the Chesnut Wood, because many of the true Chesnut Trees 
grow there. Although the Triestiners appear to be quite igno- 
rant of the existence of these trees near them, yet they purchase 
their fruit roasted in the markets, without troubling themselves 
with a single inquiry as to whence they are brought. We found 
the following plants in flower: — Serapias ensifblia^ Litliosper- 
mum purpureo-coeruleum^ Melittis grandiflora^ and Tamus com- 
ominis. 
‘‘ Hundsherg^ May Country The first day of 
May is, in Trieste, as well as in many other places, a day of 
gladness, as, at that period, mankind rejoice in the return of 
spring. We had yesterday an opportunity to observe the cele- 
bration of this festive period, as the suburb of Hundsberg is the 
spot where it takes place. Early at day-break, the procession 
of the Triestiners commences to the Grove of the Hundsberg, 
which is soon filled with thousands of people, in all conditions of 
life, dressed in their holiday suits, enjoying themselves in the 
open air. They breakfast, take walks, and gather young branches 
from the oaks, which they carry home to decorate their houses. 
As all this took place under our windows, and our friends were 
among the number of the pleasure- takers, w6 presently joined 
them, and passed a very happy morning. Since all the merchants 
must be at their counting-houses by eight o’clock, and every thing 
here depends on trade, the cheerful multitude dispersed at that 
hour, and quiet returned to the peaceful grove. Our host cal- 
