Chap. VI.] 



THE LUXEMBOURG GAEDENS. 



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month. In France the Oleander-tree is attacked by a parasite called the Ohermes 

 Nerii, which does it a great deal of injury. While in the greenhouse no pains should 

 be spared to deliver it from its enemy by means of a stiff dry brush. The mis- 

 chief caused by this insect will often kill the tree ; prompt means must therefore 

 be taken as soon as it makes its appearance. If, in spite of all care, the Chermes 

 still keeps up its depredations, all the old wood that is attacked mast be pruned 

 out. By this means the evil may be entirely remedied, a new set of shoots 

 appearing and bearing flowers the following year." 



The groves of stunted and crowded trees, the great expanse of 

 gravel, and the stiff borders are somewhat relieved in the Luxem- 

 bourg garden by a conSderabie extent^of, ground jjisposed in ji, 

 more easy and naEuraF'manner, which, as usual, ^^.j^aHed the 



,__^. J,— ^en.'''' Here thereis some repose from wide carpets 



o f^rf o n which af e^^tted_ Pillar-roses, Yuccas, groups of^ fine 

 foliage plants, masses of Boses, with a resujt that in thisjpart the 

 ejlect is^inucE better than in the older quarters. 'Xh.e Papyrus of 

 the ancients. Papyrus antiquorum, has here been for years a 

 striking object^ planted outTnT^umrnerTnTriasses; 



Border oj Roses. — Luxembourg Gardens. 



