480 ON FORM IN TREE SCENERY. 



caster, Green Box, Gold Holly, Laurustinus, Phillyrea, 

 Thuiopsis borealis, Portugal Laurel. Small groups of 

 deciduous shrubs, as Purple Nut, Golden Spiraea, Purple 

 Euonymus, Hippophae, Purple Berberis, Shepherdia, and 

 the like, were also introduced at intervals among the above 

 for the sake of colour. These are now in their second 

 year's growth, and require time to realise the intended 

 object ; but the effect, whether viewed in close proximity 

 or from the opposite shore of the lake, has attracted the 

 notice and received the commendation of some of our best 

 garden artists. 



[For lists of trees and shrubs classified under the 

 heading of "form," see pp. 231-243.] 



A PEEP AT THE PAEIS FLOWEE MAEKET, 



[From " The Florist? November 1850,^. 278.] 



NO lover of flowers who visits the French capital 

 should fail to spend a morning at the flower 

 market. Though somewhat* different in character from 

 similar exhibitions in our own country, it is certainly in 

 no respect inferior. I was in Paris on the last three days 

 of July days remarkable in the political history of that 

 city and so agreeable were my reminiscences of former 

 visits that I resolved to spend the early part of one of 

 those fete-days at the Marche aux Fleurs. Accordingly 

 I arose at the dawn of day, and quitting my hotel in the 

 Rue de Rivoli was soon at the Quai aux Fleurs, where the 

 market is held. Long before I had reached the desired 

 place, I was reminded of my approach by the return of 

 earlier visitors. The thrifty housewife, with a heliotrope 

 under one arm and a rose beneath the other, was moving 

 with a brisk step, her affections, pro tern., divided between 

 the darlings of her choice, herself apparently unconscious 

 of the busy scene which surrounded her. Then the work- 



