260 THE PARKS AND GARDENS OP PARIS. [Chap. XVI. 



The great gardens of the Kothschilds and like places, however, 

 must not be taken as representative of the chateau-gardens gene- 

 rally, in which not so much attention is bestowed on the gardens 

 as in England. Circumstances have placed gardening for pleasure 

 and planting in a more advanced condition in our country than in 

 any other. We have got further away from the ideas that led to 

 lopping trees into the forms of coffee-pots than any other people. 

 We have much to do and much to abolish yet. But our privilege 

 of leading the van in this way should incite ns to greater exertion 

 still in the cause of progress ; to make the garden more and more 

 a conservatory of beautiful natural objects ; to abolish unmeaning 

 line-gyrations and formality, so that our garden-galleries may be 

 fitted for the reception of the living, changing pictures we may 

 have in them. 



A garden horror; the mirror-globe. 



