CiiAP. II.] THE TARC MONCEAU. 41 



villanously ugly find wholly needless buildings which arc quite 

 out. of place, and tend to confuse and limit the garden. There is 

 ahout the most absurd of bridges stuck over an unclean pool of 

 water, with a hard, black asphalte margin — proper enough in a 



CLEMATIS ON TREES IN MAY, Pare Monccaii 



tanyard no doubt, but not in a fair garden. Such puerile struc- 

 tures are figured with the most elaborate detail in illustrated 

 works, as if thoy were as worthy of admiration as a Roman arch. 

 A man who really knew their value and ha<l power to treat them 



