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of all lovers of English gardens, in saying that a glohe-mirror is 

 one of the most offensive objects that can be placed in a garden. 



The picturesque style of gardening as seen round Paris is 

 mainly distinguished by its tempestuous undulations. Even in 

 the Champs Elysees every patch of turf is waved up and down in 

 the most violent manner, and very often it is so in the little 

 gardens. The adjacent level lines of roadway, footway 



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A Town-garden in Paris. 



buildings, contrasting abruptly as they do with all this, show its 

 artificial character at once. When valleys are traced through 

 bits of turf not much larger than a dining-room floor, and 

 surrounded by wide level walks, we get the puerile instead of the 

 picturesque. One might as well attempt to diversify the surface 

 of a dinner-table. In addition, the undulations are stiffly and 

 badly carried out— scarcely an easy, natural gradation is seen. 

 Sir Eichard Wallace's garden at Bagatelle, in the Bois de 



