Chap. II.] 



THE PARC MONCEAU. 



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example, by Mr. Gibson when superintendent of Battersea Park ? 

 It is evident that to accommodate it to private gardens an 

 expense and a revolution of appliances would be necessary, which 

 are in nearly all cases quite impossible, and if possible hardly 

 desirable. We can, however, introduce into our gardens most of 

 its better features ; we can vary their contents, and render them 

 more interesting by a better and nobler system. The use of all 



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plants without any particular and striking habit or foliage or 

 other desirable peculiarity, merely because they are natives of 

 very hot countries, is unwise and generally impossible. Selection 

 of the most beautiful and useful from the great mass of plants 

 known is the good gardener's pride, and in no branch must he 

 exercise it more thoroughly than in this. Some of the plants used 

 are indispensable — the different kinds of Eicinus, Canna in great 



