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THE PAI^KS AND GARDENS OF TAKIS. [Chap. III. 



difficult to find any one person who possesses a good general 

 knowledge of the whole. Men spend their lives in studying 

 orchid culture or arboriculture, and yet these are but depart- 

 ments of the art. Difficult, however, as it is to secure a man 

 with a good general knowledge of horticulture, we happily have 

 in various countries examples of brilliant success in this way — 

 men who might be named as having as nearly perfect a know- 



PLAN OF THE JARDIN DES PLANTES. Uoxu not to lay out a botanic garden, 

 I. JVomenade. 2. Amphitheatre. 3. Beasts of Prey. 4, 19. Fountain. 6. Library. 7, 8, 9, 

 xo, i8, 29. Mi red plantations and nurseries. 11, 12, 13, 14. Museums 0/ Anatomy, Botany, 

 Mineralogy, and /^oology. 15. Parterre. 16. Cedar. 17. School of Botany. 20. Bears. 21, 22, 

 23. Nurseries, &'c. 24, 25. Labyrint/ts. 26. Cuvier's hou^e. 27, 28. Birds. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34. 

 Aquatic, Edible, Herbaceous, Officinal, and Tropical Plants. 35. Reptiles. 36, 37, 39. Animals. 

 38. Glass-lwuses. 40. Monument to Daubenton. A. B.C. Offices. 



ledge of the art of gardening as it is possible to attain. Yet 

 by our present system, we paralyse the eflforts of such men 

 by placing them under the control of a person who is, as a rule, 

 without knowledge of horticulture. 



AVhat should we think of people who placed the designing and 

 building of important architectural works in the hands or under 

 the control of a geologist who had spent his life in gathering and 



