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examined. Fortunately, the. weather had been mild and most 
of the flowers of the season were in bloom. I was particularly 
impressed with the attractive appearance of several oval beds 
of a golden chrysanthemum called ‘Gerbe d’ Or,” a very appro- 
priate name. In the enclosure controlled by the Ecole de Botan- 
ique, labels of different colors, red, green, blue, and yellow, are 
sed to designate plants used for medicine, food, arts, and orna- 
14. View in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, one of the many beautiful 
Sie parks of the cit 
ment, respectively. Black labels are attached to poisonous 
had a main trunk a yard in diameter, but this has all disappeared 
above ten feet from the ground, the present top of the tree 
being composed of several branches that have sprung from this 
much abbreviated trunk. 
