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plants or bulbs at once discarded. As we Intend to go more at length 

 into this at a future opportunity, we will relieve ourselves from further 

 digression by observing how much superior many of the old French 

 designs for parterres are to those of the modern English school, where the 



most tasteless 

 was owing to 



figures are yet introduced into designs. No doubt it 

 the paucity of flowers then known, which made the 

 French "garden artists" decorate their parterres with low evergreens 

 for effect, and which render them so infinitely before English designs in 

 the winter season. But even with all our profusion of plants for summer 



