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us has prod oduced a umo whi ch ere are waves sand pages DM ica e 
ble — T some e thirty Er during the first dc. as th 1 the a drop of dew which falls with a 
copperplate engravings add a e Roserie " in Europe. For de amr deny of | soft murmur Bd | an inert hill; there are a thousand 
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rre giam ion of the gardens was devoted to this ni poh 4 1s ns there must have been ma any ou the 
Mr. F. branch of horticulture, and m any of the €! the De luge, when the waters had cm os 
Haree, — — ý de mal ing vem; upon the old magnifl. finest ‘modern Roses have had their origin at the at ple 8 
LM 3 che fornia ad includes all the where, from May till October, "ig, velto as 
T Pari ven Fontainebleau, adds the par-|of these b beautiful flowers will bo found in bloom. old as the world, but the effect o of woah 1 is all. EP 
xcursion to Shaun and Epernay and man Per oo — is head gardener | The artists, the poets, the r romancers, the lovers—tbose 
— un * es his book with useful advice —— ^p roles on — Nr. y upwards | great pots have, from time immemorial, made the 
pen P e domicile, and other miscellaneo f 20 ties of tbe queen of flowers from the fo orest of Fontainebleau the empire of their dreams. 
4 — thorned as single- — monophylla, whi ich It is composed of nearly 40 „000 acres of ancient and 
apu volume — — about everything Uy dee = take for a x berry bush the west by the Seine, 
we set pm. erhaps to expeet poem. 30 feet high. In consideratio on, south by t canal Y* Briare, and is no less than 
pe or do we fiu — We however xtract E y v the lar — 7i of experimental grou und | 28 lenges in coat erence. 
pe ssages which MÀ — useful i tions to | subjoined t m “In the midst of this admirable confusion of rocks, 
— abont to t Pari P awns, and old Oaks, several of which are -— 
Jardin des Plant tes." Close) y sdjolaing ia ihe Jardin dem than ee cultivation of a Miche never- | Saint Louis, Charlemagne, or Clovis; in the thick 
des Plantes, founded by Louis XIII. in 1635, at the sug- cQ eo dmi ca ving branch of national commerce. groves at the bottom of these deep dell. in 
tion o — ig M and. De la Bros: e des Vignes is devoted to experiments on the depth of these caverns, on. the summit of 
vurnefort, Vaillant, Jussieu. an d many other natural — growth — amelioration of the vintage of France ; these = p — fur from the Peg ^ 
the — — and if the results listance, or. on its 
and in 1739 — — its superinte dent. wh * — — — bien in n the floral school, — — the sido of the er A ge "dà 
Inour own time, the 2 serious advantages will reconcile horticul- ae * ds Elm hohe 
equal disti rn to the appointment. ^ When the|turists to the loss of a portion of the funds and terri Heath, among the R or 
universities and —— learned bodies were suppressed, they formerly —— Nothing, memwhile, can E by the cry of the fa ravens, the 2 ous songs of 
daring o Rei f Terror, it g at the lark, the 4 5 notes of the nightingale ; 
the name of Jara ** ved ‘Roi would be fatal to tl g of its celel 1 Lil hetl 
1 of nat his But the populace, on Standard Rose trees," or whether the deer va ani inhes w ith a bound, afte " having 
being assured that 1 the bone garden was devoted to dd that Mr. Hardy, mentioned in thi an 
medicinal purposes, ratory to a — etre | extract, has resigned his office. not forget t es of the princes a and 
manu -aa satisfied | Redes with 3 them "The Bois de oulogne is now the Hyde Park of | poets, the fms rie he Ke — s de Chasse, the very 
national property. Under the reign of Napoleon, the | Paris, where the most splendid equipages and finest sight” of which recals so many old legends, There is à 
horses of the capita! isplayed. in visiti t which. all 
the adc 
| certain art in v 
| portance; and i 2 additions were made to the which No — its eastern side have caused the is chance and confusion. Go then, step by step, from 
| collections of the. purchase, as well as by | destru of one of its finest avenues, This delight- | the Table du Roi to the Tea de la Solle ; from the 
| Saint Germain In 
um, by 
foreign conquest. "The. establishment of the Jardin des fu 1 plantation which, by order of the present Emperor, | Rocher de Saint Germ are nux Evées; from 
Plantes is under the control of the Mir nister of th g considerable embellishments, at the | the Carrefour de Belle Vue to the Gorge aux Lou 
Interior, and contains ay rane ,400,000 fr., is best t entered. from the Por te| Among all these magnificent horrors, covered with 
conservatories, a gallery of anatomy, a series of vli Maillot, — at a short dist beautiful shadow, do not fail to visit Franchard, the 
tions illustrating TEtoile. From this gate t there are two — most romantic of all ere picturesque valleys. At F'ran- 
history, a gallery. of botany, a mena gerie of living | avenues: the on te the right is the Allée de Long- ch ard they will tell you lege pet dms wil show you 
animals, and a suecession of laborato tories and lecture: | champ, whence secondary avenues branch out t T | hear the history of 
rooms for every branch of national science, The Bagatelle and Madrid. — me of Me Bois de the monks; then, 70 . “te tha a npon which 
menagerie was originally added Eo the Jar din du Roi Boulogne, intersected as it i itb nu "S Cross: e, overturned 
on the removal of Louis XVI. . fro hefat rid Bub the bera - * wind, you wi i. prey behold ‘with delight. the 
I who is pressed for time should a take the Roche qni Pleure. The he qui Pleure is a hill natu- 
as proposed that shelter cM be afforded to them to his left, when a delicious — "ah irs T imde rally placed amongst several others of smaller height. 
in nthe Jardin des Plantes, and a large portion of the the cool shade of thickly- 9$ — . — - | Around it all is desolation, silence, and aridity ; you feel 
es will bring h the scene 2 the | thirsty at the mere fact of finding yourself upon these 
provided for the purpose, and are now the principal improvements now in n pro, gress. Here an artificial lake, sands, amongst these rocks, beneath this burning sun. 
| —— of the place. Near th 250i But listen! Do you hear the silvery sound of a drop 
for the reception of tropical plants. On a stocked with fish, prim between groves of Fir and | of water, which falls from the sky into a nacre shell? 
rising ground stands a fine Cedar of Lebanon, "the 8 tres vil —.— semen i scattered aooe its | It is strange—this pearl which detaches itself from this 
1 tS, able cont re. with the green turf. vast rock, this drop of pure water which falls with a 
‘tas conical hill on the side of which the tree is planted | n Te — Ki the 10 ke are pe wooded wed con- | murmur from this immense IE Ata l times, in 
ay? a sort of pro- all seasons h d 
unding E of i he s nally ame drop of 
nds a beautiful view of the city of Paris and the ne 2 d by a bridge. On one “these ons, beneath the 
— Two fine Palm trees, 26 foot, |p 8 belvi onn nanding he same rock eter: 
high, side the door of the bota- | wh ! sh on cit! 
— pose tay were sent —— e to Louis XIV., | sected with gravel other stands an 
nore than a century ago. It must be admitted that ornamental Swiss cottag - Opere W ntory | de 
"a a i 
Henri IV, the Rocher d'Avon, th ont. 
feeding tlie The Venter de Ta Reine the Erables, the Table du Gran¢ 
prema which have — shed so much lustre | w lls from. ———— height over rocks Veneur, the Mine —— leads the midnight 
on the capital of France. It is very inferior to the be 9 which a rustic — —— barking of his €: the Grande 
Gardens at at Kew, and, indeed, to many of the private | of steps denen to v — the —— An esplanade | Taille, the Village d' Avon, fhe P Roi, the 
i Lon — Nei in th smaller dus tr enri 
iis 
extent or variety of the 7 in the laying in length and — 100 in breadth, where boat r4 ~ 
out and keeping of the groun evoted ‘to the E await the —— desirous of navigatin these still x Seurs. Oh : —— 
ortem: 
—stories o ve, 
the logi in th ? > iti n now —thi 
2 "ras Aman ee — F ith an ancient, silent, profound shadow, reached by no other 
for the embellishment of Paris, entertains the design of | Cedar, and bearing the rather pous name of Mont | noise than the stag — the bird singing, the horn 
rescuing this fine establishment. from its somewhat | Saint Bernard. The lakes are fed by the reservoirs of | resounding through the wood!” F Xnowled 
. neglected state, and raising it to the position which it Chaillot, through an iron pipe 16 inches in diameter, " que this last clever sketch Mr. Forester ackn ve ges 
Ought to assume among the other creations of his which passes under the Porte de la Muette. From the his ee on to the author of The American in Paris. 
genius z great and artistic works." Mont Saint — — comman: ing a good; — of the — de: Cores. (MD 
.-e cha here ist, , | whole, seven walks or avenues branch out iu as many 
in extension ef the enne i ^s — Ive’ Capea, må directions. The avenue leading to Longeh passes Holborn) Autumn — - ded a m irum — 
— alle aux vins, which — is to be re- esta - the beautiful villa of * — — D 1 ar — * bulbs, bat ek ludes 
8 —“ Adjoi the palace irte ore “th "Comte d Artois, for whom it a great variety of hardy perennials amd — 
- àre the noble: gardens of de Luxe — the zel m —— — Revolution, by Bélanger, in less — 7. — — d cr for management are 
miro of - Fau — Saint Germain, . nende of a wager between | prefixcd to the list of each kin 
Planted by Des brosses, at the time of the erection of the tho — — t of jer — 
— In 1792 the the fi t trees were cat down, and : — not be built in 60 — It was finished Quat Mem — sg 
p Mr. sem should have added something a au tthe) Ho —— UvLTURAL Socrery’s GARDEN, 2 
period of mf ef and eara rt the utilising new arden established here under the GRE The great consc vides at this 2 — — - 
vention; a large portion of 4 f the gardens was ploug up direction ks Mr. Mitchell; the t€ 1 indeed well e inspection, t will be remem E D 
and sown with corn. The ground thus cleared remained | of this place, in its present state, is far too meagre, | about two years ago the ornamental plants which * 
waste till 1801 ; since when great. improvements have considering the fondness of us En 4— for or park contained were remoy e and — * was planted v — 
been made. Near ti entrance, opposite ie the Rue scenery. It strikes us that 2 e have been fur which were nded t Lie ia 
! Bouflot, a new parterre has been constructed and more Ad er in — oat look for in the roo! a profitable roh 3 
j decorated with a fountain, built by Catherine de new Bois de Boulogne, than "the hue 
: Jaeques Desbrosses. is | of Versailles, on which " 
— ; ived a new basin of | — Fontainebleau;—^ If you understand what. yow are 
large dimension adjoining parterre is a b about, you will not leave Fontainebleau-without going 
tiful marble group of Cain and his family after the death through the forest, which is one of the most beaut! 
of Abel, seulpt eo and pio in Fra You ou see 
omaments, which wi i graceful and | the of Fontainebleau in the morning ata vory | old 
el nature, as if expressly in the gratifica- | early „when the bird sings, when the sun shines, Te 
— eu princesses, by whom, for upwards of a| when all the points of view. exten dh selves to I 3 
E habited, and which had been | infinity your eyes, all these: in width, 
amm during the first revolution, have been re- | stones heaped up beneath these pel trees —2 a — time as. 
‘Placed " new — ot the he est Parisian masters, and | thousand fantastic forms, ve t the | it being the intention P aire more room. These Vines 
distributed alon ng. the and western terraces. A appearance of the plain on which binc 1s pen ht oe crei — the house through holes — low 
S ———— against N The forest nd the house, and havegrown with suc i vigour 
set mace Vt GC prerpodl tpe de ue — ins 
1... !... ̃ 1... feet Migh.. Thie senson they 
