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THE PARKS AND GARDENS OF PARIS. [Chap. XXXII. 



all of them are smaller than the Halles, which offer most interest 

 to the stranger. A good deal of the choicer produce is, however, 

 taken to the Marche St. Honore, after having been sold wholesale 

 in the central market. 



There are thousands of Parisians whose garden is the window, 

 or a basket mossed over in the room, or a glazed case, and to most 

 of them the flower-market is a nursery ; an excellent nursery too, 



A Flowei^-markei and City-sguare in one. The new Central Flower^marketf luith Plantation of 

 PaiUownias for shade', — {early morning view.') 



for there they can get numerous pretty plants in the best of 

 health for a trifling sum. Considering that a few miles of sea 

 have for ages separated many marked customs of both peoples, 

 and that thousands of miles of sea have not prevented English 

 habits, that have never crossed the Channel, from spreading to 

 the Antipodes, it is perhaps vain to hope for the adoption of such 

 a feature as the flower-markets of Paris in our great towns ; yet 

 few could be more agreeable and useful. In Paris the larger, 



