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the Imperial uStandard on the Fortress. But Louis XVIII. 

 was grateful to Antibes for the first resistance it had made 

 against Napoleon, and presented the town with a new coat 

 of arms, bearing gold lilies; and besides this he conferred on 

 the town the privilege of calling itself his "bonne ville". 



X'auban's "Fort Carre" still stands unimpaired on 

 the other side of the harbour of Antibes. Like a gigantic 

 starfish cast up on the shore, this bulwark stretches out 

 its bastions towards all points of the compass. Often 

 have I been lost in contemplation of this loveI_y scene 

 late in the da>' when the setting sun tinged the snow 

 of tlic Alps with rosy red, and the fort, alreach' deeph' 

 steeped in the dark shadows of evening, was silhouetted 

 against the clear background of the mountains. 1 either 

 wandered along the sea-shore by the roadstead of x^ntibes 

 or sat down on the further side of the old cemetery and 

 gazed on the view through a setting of tall and ancient 

 C\presses. 



The nurser^■ gardens of \'ilmorin - Andrieux are 

 well worth a visit. The entrance is just above the 

 Villa Thuret on the main road leading from Antibes to 

 the point of the Cap. This plantation is devoted to the 

 rearing of special kinds of seeds. In tlte spring the 

 extensive green-houses on the terraces of tlie gardens, 

 which slope down towards Golfe Jouan, are chiefly 

 stocked with Primulas and Cinerarias. The plants under 

 cultivation arc all show specimens; each plant resembles 

 the other in every respect. The eye is t|tiitc dazzled 

 b\' the brilliant colours of the Cinerarias. The two 

 species of Primula cultivatecl here in countless varieties 



