18 JARDIN DES PLANTES. 
understanding, there would be nothing wrong 
or equivocal, and therefore misleading, in the 
term ‘ Zoological Garden.’ In truth, we are 
in a park or enclosure, formed, within the Re- 
gent’s Park or Enclosure, for Zoological pur- 
poses; and therefore a Zoological Park, Kn- 
closure, or Garden. The word ‘ garden’ im- 
plies that which is ‘ girden,’ ‘ girded,’ ‘garded, 
or * guarded,’ or is within a fence, girth, 
garth, or girdle. In the north of England, 
a garth signifies an ¢ enclosure ;’? and another 
form of the same word is ¢ yard.’ A yard, 
court-yard, and the rest, imply enclosures, 
and literally, gardens. In the woods of North 
America, the space which an Elk (Moose) 
hollows and beats smooth for himself and fa- 
mily in the midst of the snow, is called a 
‘ Moose-yard. But, in reality, this Gar- 
den seems to have obtained the name of ° 
Zoological Garden, only in servile imitation 
of the ‘ Jardin des Plantes’ at Paris. We 
are often guilty of this sort of servile, be- 
cause inappropriate, imitation of our neigb- 
bours, in France as well as those elsewhere !” 
‘*'The imitation,” observed Mrs. Aston, 
