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agreeable winter-garden. With the better kinds of climbers 

 depending from the roof; a few beds of Oranges and Camellias, 

 and some Palms and fine-leaved plants here and there, to lend 

 grace and character to the scene, one can fancy few things more 

 agreeable in the way of winter-garden or conseryatory, particularly 

 as the varied contents of the houses on each side could be seen 

 through the glass from the corridor or promenade. 



The Cannas and like plants, of which such graceful use is made 

 in Paris gardens, are preserved in a most efficient way in caves in 

 this garden. When the stone is quarried for building purposes, 

 a rough propping column is left here and there, and thus dark 



Diagram showing the arrangemetU of a group of Glass Houses in ike Jardin Fleuriste. 



and spacious caves of equable temperature are left underground. 

 They are in this case about seven feet high, and are used for 

 storing plants that may be well preserved without lighb in the 

 winter. Here too in masses against the cave walls are arrayed 

 quantities of the Chinese Eice-paper plant, which is so much 

 grown in the gardens. It seems in a perfectly firm and safe 

 condition, growing in the gas-lighted atmosphere, and sending 

 out long blanched leaves of a delicate lemon-colour, which when 

 the plants are placed in the open air in the summer, soon acquire 

 a healthy green. 



The nursery for trees for the boulevards is situated at Petit 

 Bry, near Nogent-sur-Marne. It consists of nearly forty-five 



