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Notes and Reflections during a Tour : — 



geous garden walk in all France. The following are the details 

 of the plan of Bagatelle : — 



Main entrance from the Bois de Boulogne. 



Outer entrance to the courts of the chateau. 



Avant cour (second court). 



Court of honour. 



Main entrance to the chateau. 



Bowling-green, surrounded by geometric 



Isle of the Tomb. 



Elevated rock, on which is placed La Mai- 

 son de Philosophe (philosopher's hut). 



9, Rockwork, whence issues the water that 

 supplies the lake. 



10, Ice-house, over which is La Tour des Pa. 

 ladins (the tower of the Paladins). 



11, Porter's lodge and garden. 



12, Hot-houses, green-houses, and gardens. 



13, Picturesque scenery in the park, which ex- 

 tends southwards to some distance. 



The Park of St. Ouen {Jig. 25.) was laid out by Gabriel 

 Thouin for Madame de Cayla, soon after the restoration of 

 Louis XVIII. The surface is flat ; and very little is gained 

 from the distant prospect ; but, by great diversity of disposition 

 in the trees and walks, a continual change of verdant scenery 

 is presented to the spectator. The fault, to an English taste, 

 is, that the wood is not in sufficiently large masses, and that 

 there are too many walks. The result of these defects is a 

 want of grandeur and repose. There are, however, two 

 points, in the laying out of this garden, well deserving the 

 attention of British landscape-gardeners : the first is, that the 

 situation and turnings of every walk are accounted for, by 

 trees or shrubbery, in the axils, so to speak, of their inter- 

 sections ; and the second, that great depth of interior view is 

 given from all the principal points, by studiously avoiding to 

 intercept the views by trees. In short, nothing in this plan 

 of the Park of St. Ouen seems as if it could be otherwise 

 than as it is ; and this is always a good test. M. G. Thouin, 

 though he has never been in England, and therefore cannot 

 have a clear idea of what an English park is, yet lays out 



