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seek. The director not knowing liow to lead tlie way himself, 

 will not let anyone else move. Few men who love their work can 

 endure the dull rule resulting from so harmful a system. 



The curiously had system of planting young trees heneath the 

 old ones, mentioned and illustrated in connection with the 

 Tuileries gardens, may also he seen here, the general tree-mis- 

 management resulting in overcrowded trees, without natural 

 dignity or size. 



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Among the more instructive features of the garden may he 

 mentioned tlie fountain of Jacques Dehrossc and its surroundings. 

 Stretching from the foot of this fountain there is a long water- 

 basin, with a walk on each side bordered with Plane-trees, which, 

 meeting overhead, make a long, leafy arch, the effect of the 

 fountain-group at the end being good. It is, of course, heightened 

 by the leafy canopy of Planes, but very much more so by the use 

 made of Ivy and Virginian Creeper. Between the trees the Irish 

 Ivy is planted, and then trained u}) in rich, thick, but graceful 



