80 THE PARKS AND GARDENS OF PARIS. [Chap. V. 



to accept as a law that when a garden is made very near to 

 any kind of ornamental building it is indispensable to make it 

 " associate " with the buildings — to carry the lines of stone as 

 much as possible into the garden, to make it as angular and, 

 it may be, as brick-dusty as possible, like some recent examples 

 with us. These gardens, among many others, prove the fallacy 

 of this. There are numbers of men professing taste in designing 

 gardens who would never think of putting anything in this 



Little Gardens within the Louvre, exterior view. {Hachette.\ 



position but expensive gewgaws in the shape of trees in tubs, 

 squirting water, vases, coloured and broken gravels— things which 

 in their opinion would "harmonise" with the work of the 

 architect. But unaided by these, and at a tenth of the cost, from 

 the simplest natural materials, far better results are obtained. 

 It is well worth while walking round the little lawn in each of 

 these gardens to notice the various happy effects resulting from 

 the contrast of the buildings with the trees, one of which is 

 shown in the page illustration. The small patches of grass in 



