Chap. II.] 



THE PARC MONCEAU. 



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villanously ugly and wholly needless buildings which are quite 

 out of place, and tend to confuse and limit the garden. There is 

 about the most absurd of bridges stuck over an unclean pool of 

 water, with a hard, black asphalte margin — proper enough in a 



CLEMATIS ON TREES IN MAT, Pare Monceau. 



tanyard no doubt, but not in a fair garden. Such puerile struc- 

 tures are figured with the most elaborate detail in illustrated 

 works, as if they were as worthy of admiration as a Eoman arch. 

 A man who really knew their value and had power to treat them 



