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thus four feet or so of the breadth of the whole plain of Longchamp 

 was being watered from one hose. There were two of these hoses 

 at work, one man attending to each of them j the only attention re- 

 quired being to pass from one end of the line to the other, and push 

 forward the hose as each portion became sufficiently watered. In 

 this way also I saw them watering the lawns at Baron James 

 Rothschild's beautiful place in the same neighbourhood. The 

 simplest thing of all is the way they make the perforations for the 

 lets along the pipe. They are simply little longitudinal holes 

 driven in the pipe with a bit of steel. They must be made across 

 the pipe, or the water will not spread in the desired direction. 

 There are various modes of spreading water in use about Paris, 

 but none of them half as good as this simple method. The 

 hose for watering the roads is arranged on wheels also, but, as 

 it must be at all times under command when carriages pass by, 

 it has only one rose or jet, which is directed by a man who moves 

 about among the carriages with the greatest ease, and keeps his 

 portion of the road in capital condition. Of course it is a much 

 cheaper way than carrying the water about as we do, as then we 

 must have horse and cart, wear and tear, and man also ; whereas, 

 by having the water laid on, all the men have to do in watering is 

 to attach the hose and commence immediately. In the same way 

 as much work can be done in a garden in a day as with ten men 

 by the ordinary mode j so that in the end it is much cheaper to 

 have the water laid on. There can be no doubt that to the efficient 

 watering much of the success of the fine foliaged plants in Paris 

 gardens is to be attributed. 



The profuse cropping of the market gardens here is also due, to 

 some extent, to their regular watering : the ground being always 

 moist and friable. In the market gardens they raise the water 

 from deep wells by horse-power, and send it to barrels and cement 

 cisterns plunged in various parts of the garden. In each market 

 garden, and in many nurseries, you usually see a horse of the esta- 

 blishment working one of these pumps. The remarkably succulent 

 radishes, turnips, &c., with which the Paris markets are supplied in 



