Chap. II.] 



THE PARC MONCEAU. 



33 



perialis were too tender to stand our winters, and if we were 

 accustomed to see it only in a young and simple-stemmed 

 condition and with large leaves, we should doubtless plant it 

 out every summer as we do Ferdinanda. There is no occasion 

 whatever to resort to exotic subjects, while we can so easily 

 obtain fine hardy plants — which, moreover, may be grown 

 by everybody and everywhere. By annually cutting down 



AILANTUS AND CANNAS. 

 Svggesti?!^ tlie effects to be obtained /ram certain yowtg trees cut down annually, 



young plants of various hardy trees and shrubs, and letting 

 them make a simple-stemmed growth every year, we shall, as 

 a rule, obtain finer efi'ects than can be got from tender ones. 

 The Ailantus, for example, treated in this way, gives us as 

 fine a type of pinnate leaf as can be desired. Nor need we 

 place Astrapsea Wallichii in the open air, so long as a simple- 

 stemmed young plant of the Paulownia makes a column of 

 superb leaves. The delicately cut leaves of the Gleditschias, 



