96 THE PARKS AND GARDENS OF PARIS. [Chap. VI. 



the end of a stick, may be shown to best adyantage, its foliage 

 springing from the turf. 



Usually in geome trical gardens th e portion_nearest the building 

 is a terrace commanding the surr ounding s — here, on the contrary,' 

 ~the "part nSiest the palace is a basin flanked by iJalustra'ded 

 terraces. The grass banks that rise from the lower garden to the 

 baTustrade are not lef-t naked, but planted with two lines of dwarf 

 ^se-Tiishes. "TEer^ seems no reason why such spots should be left 

 "tefe". Continuous borders, nQt,beds^ runjround the plots of grass in 

 the flower-garden here, andjr^mjpring toJ.he.^d of autumn these 

 are never .flowerless^ The. sygtsw, adapted~is -ona-ofJlbeddijig " 

 plants and herbaceous, plants . mixed, but .all are changed^^very 

 yearj A spring flower this week is replaced by a summer flower- 

 ing plant next week, and so on as the season requires. Stocks of 

 plants are always kept on _hand tcT carry this system out, and the 

 placmg^of the herbaceous plants into fresh ground _e very year 

 causes them to flower as feely'as the t ender bedding pla ntsL 



But these borders_alsocpntain permanent bushes — Lilacs, Eoses, 

 &C;^j__whifih _giye a line of verdure throughout~the~centre, and 

 prevent it from being overdone with flower s. Among these 

 woody plants are ot hers very sweet for many weeks through the 

 better part of the season. These are low standard bushes of the 

 common Honeysuckle. Alternating between a Eose and a Lilac7or 

 o ther busn, an d throwing down a'bead of flowering shooTs7fe"w 

 e g:otic subiects^a re_more wercomeln the flower-gajJenj Ean^these 

 Honeysucklfr^standards^ There are also mixed beds of Ferns in 

 tEe'open air, isolated specimens of Tree-ferns~and gracefui Wood- 

 wardlai" elevated on moss-covered s tand s, w hich add a touch of 

 ""novelty to lEe"garden as compare d with others in Paris . 

 "^Ma ny la rgeJreegrzzFla'nes j.nd Ches tmitar!=have_b.een moved in 

 fulTleaf inThis garden i n midsn.mm_er. They are taken up with 

 great " balls " of earth, by powerful machinery, and very success- 

 fully; but though it may be very desirable in Paris to move 

 common trees of large size to complete and re-arrange straight 

 avenues here and there, the plan, generally, is not .worth the expense. 



Before the alterations that took place here some years ago there 

 was a good botanic gatden, an irregular sort of English garden, 

 which the French call the " never-to-be-forgotten nursery," 

 and many matters of interest now passed away. The garden used 



