THE 



GARDENERS MAGAZINE, 



DECEMBER, 1830. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. 



Art. I. Notes and Reflections made during a Tour through Part 

 of France and Germany, in the Autumn of the Year 1828. By 

 the Conductor. 



{Continued from p. 531.) 



The Gat-dens of the Luxembourg resemble in general character 

 those of the Tuilleries ; but near the palace they are, perhaps, 

 more ornamented with statues, and with basins of water. A 

 defect which strikes a stranger, at first sight, is, the ascent 

 from the platform in front of the palace to the central avenue. 

 This ascent is much too near for dignity of effect. Had it been 

 considerably greater it would have had a character of its own, 

 and might have proved a feature of interest : as it is, it militates 

 against the idea of freedom of choice as to situation, or of 

 liberty to extend operations on every side ; and, consequently, 

 against general grandeur of expression. The avenue is long 

 and flat, and its termination is bad, — a common-place observ- 

 atory tower in the horizon, backed by the sky. Notwith- 

 standing these disadvantages, the groves, or bosquets as they 

 are called, are good of their kind, and constitute great luxuries 

 in the midst of a crowded populous city. Trees, indeed, 

 never come amiss, provided they are healthy, and they redeem 

 in France, as in England, many of the deformities of artificial 

 landscape* To sit down in the interior of one of these groves ; 

 to look through the multitude of trunks of trees, which inter- 

 vene between the eye and the distant crowds in the open parts 

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