Chap. I.] 



THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE. 



19 



time it was pleasant, from the judicious planting of a variety of 

 trees and shrubs. Eecently, howoTer, the zoological element has 

 predominated so much over the rest that the beauty of the place 

 is almost destroyed, with, perhaps, the exception of the winter- 

 garden, which shows a variety of subtropical subjects planted out. 

 It is suggestive of what lovely scenes may be made by means of 

 this plan as compared with the tub-and-pot one. Here masses of 

 Bambusa gracilis grow up 15 feet high, and with all the elegance 

 of a weeping Willow, while graceful Palms and Tree-ferns look 

 quite at home when seen without the usual ugly assemblage of 

 pots and tubs. 



c 2 



