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PARKS AND GAUDENS OK PAltlS 



CHAPTER T. 



The Bois de Boulogne. 



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If tlicrn be .any aim moro wortliy 

 of a national botanic gavtleu 

 than another, it is surely the 

 expression of the beauty of the 

 vegetable world ; but the botan- 

 ists at the Jardin des Plantes 

 have so arranged matters there 

 that all who visit it in the hope 

 of seeing a fair garden will be 

 disappointed. So we had better 

 follow the world to the Bois 

 de Boulogne. There we break 

 •juite away from the old and 

 dismal style of French garden- 

 ing, with its clipped trees and 

 unendnralde monotony, and from the sad results of the open-air 

 pedantry of the botanist. The ]5ois is in many ways a garden such 

 as a great city like Paris should possess ; a noble system ot roads, 

 ample space, and fine sheets of water contributing to render it 

 deserving of a visit from all for whom gardens possess an interest. 

 Pains are taken to make the vegetation along the banks of the 

 artificial water diversified in character, so that at one place we 

 meet with conifers, at another rock-shrubs, at another Magnolias, 



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D. H. HILL LIBPARY 

 North Carolina State Colleg© 



