58 THE PARKS AND GARDENS OF PARIS. [Chap. III. 



carried out, that is good. Such arrangements, well planned and 

 cut off by judicious planting from the general verdure and chief 

 area of any of our great public gardens, would be of the greatest 

 service. 



Near the river end of the garden there is another very interest- 

 ing division. It is chiefly devoted to medicinal and useful plants 



of all kinds, arranged in 

 a distinct way. First we 

 have the Sorghums, 

 Millets, Wheats, and 

 cereals generally — all 

 plants cultivated for 

 grain. Then come plants 

 cultivated for their stems, 

 from Polymnia edulis to 

 UUucus tuberosus. Next 

 we have the chief species 

 and varieties of Onion; 

 such plants as Urtica 

 utilis, the Dalmatian 

 Pyrethrum rigidum, and 

 almost everything likely 

 to interest in this way, 

 from Lactuca perennis 

 to the esciilent Hibiscus. 

 Here again the plants 

 are well named and kept 

 clear and distinct, each 

 having full room for 

 development, the general space devoted to the subject being 

 sufficiently large ; and the practice of giving each plant a 

 portion of the whole breadth of each bed to itself is better 

 than the more crowded arrangements adopted in our British 

 botanic gardens. 



The " school of botany " is simply a department planted on the 

 natural system, remarkable for the correctness of the nomenclature 

 and the richness of its collection. Here again everything is well 

 taken care of and kept distinct ; the aquatics are furnished with 

 cemented troughs, in which they grow luxuriantly, one of the 



Effect of large umbelliferous Plant — Garden of Plants. 



