Chap. IT.] 



THE PARC MONCEAU. 



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this fact before our eyes, the nearer will be our approach to truth 

 and success. 



We should compose from Nature, as landscape artists do. We 

 may have in our gardens — and without making wildernesses of 



ShtnvtHf; one yea r's errmxth 



CASTOR-OIL 

 Eurofrfnn climnie ; 

 grmut/t hi open air . 



PLANT. 

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/i/ants that titnkf vignrnif; 



them — all the shade, the relief, the g^'ace, the beauty, and nearly 

 all the irregularity of Nature. This bold growth of " fine-foliaged 

 plants " has shown us that one of the greatest mistakes over made 

 in the garden was the adoption of a few varieties of plants for 



