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mind to distinguish the right from the wrong path. Every visit 

 paid to a garden should make the path of future effort fear 



of exTi^;! f "" '^ '^'PP'^ ^''''' "' ^°^ ^«^« extravagance 



of expenditure-a personal visit may give the young observer I 

 wholesome antidote. A good engraving or pict^ure may by the 



pression of a place really devoid of beauty of any kind, as a visit 



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to many Italian gardens would show. Surely the old French 

 styles, as witnessed at Sceaux, at the Grand Trianon, at St Cloud 

 or what remains of it, and at Fontainebleau, only require to be 

 seen to be for ever laughed at as examples of garden-design 

 But some modern gardens in France, such as parts of Vincennes 

 the English garden in the Little Trianon, and many other gardens 

 on the Continent, deserve to be seen. Then again some of the 

 public gardens and cemeteries in America should be visited 



