LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONS. 



Trees and Buildings ...... Frontispiece 



Bois DE Boulogne ...... To face page 16 



IvY-CLAD Rocks and High Lawns ... „ 68 



Corner for Play ...... „ 126 



A City Avenue Garden ..... „ 136 



A Contrast ,,178 



Groups of Statuary ...... „ 194 



Winter Garden ...... ,, 224 



Lake and Island View 



FJocky Grottoes in Banks, clothed with 



Ivy 



Rustic Bridge between Wooded Islands 

 The " Grand " Cascade in the Bois de 



Boulogne ..... 

 Plantations on Banks of Lake ; rock- 

 shrubs and small cascades 

 False Curves to Banks. 

 Ivocky margin of Island in Lago Mag- 



giore ...... 



Water margin in Loch Achray . 

 View by the Seine, looking north from 



near the Bridge of Suresnes . 

 Weeping Beech on Sloping Bank of 



Island ..... 



Bois de Boulogne .... 

 Sketch in the Pare Monceau 

 Hardy Bamboo (Bambusa nietake) in 



the Pare Monceau 

 Castor-oil Plant .... 

 Giant Knntweed (Polygonum sacha- 



linense) in the Pare Monceau, Sept. 



1877 



Tropical Arum (after a storm), Pare 



Monceau ..... 

 Montagna^a Heracleifolia . 

 Jlnsa Ensete, in the Pare Moncean. 



1868 



Beauty of form from Hardy Plants 

 Isolated Ferula on Grass . 



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Rhus glabra laciniata. Hardy shrub, 

 j cut down annually to secure fine 

 \ foliage ..... 



I Aralia japonica (Hort.). Hardy shrub 

 I with fine leaves .... 

 \ Ailantus and Cannas 

 ] Group and single specimens of Plants 



isolated on the Grass 

 ' Portion of plan showing Yuccas, Pam- 

 pas grass, Tritomas, Retinospora, 

 I Acanthus latifolius, Arundo, Donax 

 i variegata, etc., irregularly isolated 

 ' on the Grass .... 



Nook in Pare Monceau 

 Japanese Honeysuckle on Stem of Birch- 

 tree, Pare Monceau 

 Clematis on Trees in May, Pare Monceau 

 Ugly and needless Structures in the 

 Pare Monceau .... 

 Roads in the Pare Monceau. How to 

 spoil a Garden .... 

 Cocked-up Flower-bed in the Pare 

 Monceau ..... 

 Plan of the Jardin des Plantes. How 



not to lay out a Botanic Garden 

 Old Judas-tree, Garden of Plants 

 New Weeping Honey Locust (Gledit- 



schia Bojoti), Garden of Plants 

 Algerian Ivy, Garden of Plants . 

 Cedrela Sinensis (New Tree), Garden 

 of Plants 



