348 JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
{ November 7, 1878. 
if nothing else were to be seen but its collection of five hundred 
Vines and Roses the visitor would be repaid. The fountains, 
basins, groups of statuary, and the magnificent style of archi- 
tecture, not to mention the gorgeous contemporary paintings 
only second to the Louvre, would almost make one forget their 
botanical or floral interest. 
Palais Royal.—tThe garden is rectangular, and in the centre 
military bands occasionally discourse sweet music. Around it 
is a well-kept leafy promenade, and on the side adjoining the 
Rue Rivoli (probably the finest street in Paris), along the 
coyered-in verandah, are bazaars where one may reasonably 
buy almost anything. Cardinal Richelieu commenced this in 
16:9, and if he had a look at it now, except the fountain in the 
ceu re and the surrounding garden, he would have some diffi- 
culty in recognising it. Like so many of the finest public 
buildings in Paris, in 1871 the Communists burned the entire 
south wing. There are many other public and private gardens 
within the reach of the ordinary sightseer in the city, but we 
shall take next 
The St. Cloud Gardens, the favoured residence of Napo- 
leon III., and in which he received Queen Victoria in 1855. 
The statue terrace behind the palace, with the magnificent old 
trees and long expansive sweep of woodland, and the graceful 
flower parterres on each side, forms, it is said, one of the finest 
avenues in Europe. This may be said to be all that is left of 
this beautifully situated palace. for, except the blackened and 
charred walls, from which the screech of the owl alone is heard, 
all its glory is fled ; enough remains on which to muse, perhaps 
“to point a moral or adorn a tale.” One of the finest views 
of Paris can be had from the adjoining heights. 
St. Gcermain.—This I lacked time to see, but was informed 
from one point of view, its chief attraction, besides its immense 
brick gloomy palace and surroundings, there is a terrace two 
miles long, which commands a splendid view of the valley of 
the Seine and its environs. 
The Champ Elysées and Place de la. Concorde.—Having still 
to copy a few notes in reference to the parks and cemeteries, 
and to conclude with Versailles, I can but briefly say that 
within the vicinity of both these—the first, the finest leafy 
promenade and the most brilliant, night or day, in Europe, and 
the latter the centre of the splendour of Paris—are some 
circular beds, generally haying a fountain in the centre, artis- 
tically laid out in carpet fashion with peculiar devices, but I 
cannot say superior to Battersea or Victoria Parks in London 
or Phcenix Park, Dublin. 
Bois de Boulogne-—tThis is the Hyde Park of Paris, the 
resort of aristocratic equipages and fashionable cquestrians. 
The walks and drives are most tastefully kept, and turf, trees, 
and shrubs would form a desirable subject for a few hours’ 
quiet walk or drive and musing study. Shaded alleys and 
retired walks can be found here as well as crowded thorough- 
fares; lakes, waterfowl, and even the marks of bullets on the 
bark of the trees. Strange, although the French climate is in 
advance of ours, the autumn appearance of the trees has not 
yet set in, except amongst the city Limes and Plane trees—the 
trees that appear to do best in the city of Paris as well as in 
the city of London. 
The Buttes Chaumont.—The beautiful placid lake here, 
crossed by a gracefully constructed suspension bridge leading 
to a weird-looking craggy island cut out of the natural rock, 
is the special feature. It contains, it is said, nearly 60 acres, 
and cost about a quarter of a million to lay out. The rock is 
very steep, and is surmounted by the Sybil Temple with classic 
surroundings. The top is reached by winding and artistically 
constructed paths, with many very handsome flower plots. 
When you reach the summit you can survey on a bright day 
perhaps one of the most beautiful and animated panoramas in 
the world. Three-fourths of Paris and a hundred villages can 
be seen from this height—in fact, I was told the eye can take 
in a circumference of forty leagues. 
The Pare Mongeau.—tThis is the last of the many beautiful 
gardens and parks my limits will permit my noticing. The 
situation is very fine and convenient to reach, and it is to all 
appearance a most popular promenade and enjoyable retreat. 
During the last century of its existence it has undergone, like 
everything Parisian, many vicissitudes, passing from a banker 
to the Orleans, and then to the Napoleon dynasty, and ulti- 
mately in 1860 became public property. The garden is well 
deserving of special notice, as are the surrounding ruins, pyra- 
mids, cascades, rocks, and statues. 
Cemetery of Pere la Chaise, Montmartre, §¢.—Although this 
beautiful “ God’s acre” has been the resting place. side by side, 
of friend and foe innumerable (the guide told me it contained 
twenty thousand monuments alone), it is not old, having been 
given to the Superior of the Jesuits, Pére or Father La Chaise, 
only in 1804. Itcontains 212 acres, rather highly situated, and 
commands an admirable view of the many surrounding scenes. 
The flowers and devices on the graves, the Yews, Cypress, and 
various evergreens, with the immortelles (among the rest one 
sent by Her Majesty on M. Thiers’ grave), and many curious and 
unique contrivances to keep the memory of the departed green, 
go to prove that notwithstanding the gaiety of the people, 
there is still an abiding deeper feeling and perhaps a latent 
religious spirit. The plantations, walks, shady arbours. &c., 
are in the best taste. I come now to the last, but perhaps the 
most beautiful resort of al— 
Versailles Palace and Gardens.—Like so many of the prin- 
cipal parks and gardens of Paris, this was laid out and designed 
by the celebrated Le Notre. After spending a day here we 
pause to collect our confused ideas and ask what has most 
astonished or surprised us. The enormous trees centuries 
old; the play of the fountains, admittedly the finest in the 
world, costing every time they play £400, and for which an ~ 
American beside me said he would again cross the Atlantic to 
see alone; the statues, almost innumerable, any one of which 
would now-a-days make the fortune of asculptor : the grottos, 
cascades, lakes, vases, chaste flower beds, undulating and fan- 
tastic lawns and grassy slopes; but still more striking the 
quiet impressive grandeur and solemn sublimity that compel 
you to besilent while you admire. This applies even still more 
to the vast picture galleries of the palace. Yougaze with mingled 
feelings of wonder and delight at the matchless paintings of 
David ard De La Roche. But I shall not attempt what would 
be to me impossible, even a brief description en passant. Pass- 
ing from those rich scenes I cannot do better than commend 
your readers to take the first opportunity of enjoying such 
treats, for a lifetime to be remembered.—W. J. M., Clonmel. 
NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
MANY CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOWSare now pending. Amongst 
them we note Lambeth, and the North-Western (Camden 
Road) on the llth; Putney, and Stoke Newington on the 
12th; Brixton, and Dartmouth on the 13th; Walton on the 
14th ; Croydon, and Tunbridge Wells on the 15th ; Borough of 
Hackney (Westminster Aquarium), Northampton, and South- 
ampton on the 19th; Wimbledon, Ealing, Chelmsford, and 
Liverpool on the 20th ; and Kingston-on-Thames on the 21st 
of the present month. 
—— WE are pleased to observe from a statement of accounts 
published by the ScoTTISH HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 
that there is a balance in favour of the Society of £10 6s. 1d. 
The Association was instituted in March, 1877, its object being 
“the promotion and advancement of the science and practice 
of horticulture, and for the dissemination of a knowledge of 
such branches of natural history as are connected therewith.” 
At the monthly meetings of the Society papers of great prac- 
tical usefulness have been read, and the discussions that have 
risen thereupon have been highly instructive. Many new 
plants have been exhibited and adjudicated upon, and superior 
examples of cultivation have been recognised. Judging from 
the syllabus published for the session of 1878-9 much sound 
and valuable information is certain to be forthcoming on a 
variety of subjects, and we have no doubt that the Association, 
supported as it is by horticulturists and gardeners of admitted 
repute, will sustain its well-won reputation. The office bearers: 
for the ensuing session are Mr. Malcolm Dunn, Dalkeith 
Gardens, President; Mr. Hugh Fraser, Leith Walk Nurseries, 
Vice-President ; Mr. John Methven, 15, Princess Street, Edin- 
burgh, Secretary ; Mr. Alexander Milne, Leith Walk Nurseries, 
Assistant Secretary: and Mr. D. P. Laird, West Coates Nur- 
sery, Treasurer. Committees of special competency are ap- 
pointed to adjudicate upon new plants, fruit, and vegetables, 
and the entire Association is in admirable working order. 
—— WRITING on the WHITE JAPAN ANEMONE Mr. 
Brotherston observes: *‘This is an extremely useful hardy 
plant, of purest white in the flower, and rivalling Eucharis 
amazonica as a cut flower. The finest flowers are produced 
on young plants, and these have the further merit of blooming 
later than old plants. The foliage is also useful for large vase- 
furnishing. It is of easy propagation by division, and extends 
so rapidly at root that I should imagine where left to itself for 
a few years it would be found to appropriate more than its 
own share of the border. October is the best time to take off 
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