18 AUGUST 1849, page 18

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DOWNING'S LANDSCAPE GARDENING.* Wrrnotie travelling with Bacon to Paradise for the origin of gardens, we find them at least coeval with history. The hanging gardens of Babylon,......

,iiell'ai Wayside Ricrtrans.* At Various Times In His...

Mr. Bell has quitted the beaten tracks of tourists, and the capitals where such birds of passage chiefly congregate, for the old provincial towns of Normandy, Brittany, and......