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and of the promenade for recreation has even become 

 far more important, a tendency to a different style 

 in the preparation of pleasure grounds has been 

 growing wherever the climate admits of its being 

 adapted with success. The changes made in the plan 

 of the Bois de Boulogne under the late Empire 

 (partly under the advisement of Prince Puckler), 

 those also in the Bois de Vincennes, the Pare Mon- 

 ceau, and other grounds in France, and the plan of 

 the new park at Brussels, all show progress in this 

 direction, though the liking for detached scenic 

 effects which might be suitable for framing, or for 

 the background of a ballet, still influences most 

 landscape work. 



" It is to be observed, too, that on the completion of 

 the Avenue de I'lmp^ratrice as an approach to the 

 Bois de Boulogne, and of the narrow informal drive 

 around the lake with its various landscape effects, 

 that the part of this system of pleasure grounds 

 which is laid out in the natural style was immediately 

 adopted as the daylight promenade ground of Paris 

 in preference to the much wider, more accessible, more 

 stately, and in every way more convenient and mag- 

 nificent avenue of the Champs Elysees. 



"It will be thus seen that the grander and more 

 splendid style of public pleasure grounds, while it is 

 peculiarly adapted to display a great body of well 

 dressed people and of equipages to advantage, and is 

 most fitting for processions, pomps, and ceremonies, 

 while also it seems admirably to extend and soften 



