THE BOIS DE VINCENNES. 



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The Lycopodium is used with charming effect to form a 

 turf in the conservatory, and nothing can look better than 

 the New Zealand flax, and several palms and tree ferns, 

 planted near the margin of a winding piece of water in that 

 structure. Musa Ensete too looked nobly in the same 

 position. Those who visit it during the winter, cannot fail 

 to be much struck with the effect produced by beds cut in 

 the rich green of Lycopodium denticulatum, and filled with 

 Primulas, Cinerarias, and spring flowers generally. The 

 whole floor of the house, walks excepted, was effectually 

 covered by the Lycopodium. 



Fig. 16. 



Restaurant in the Bois de Vinoennes. 



The Bois de Vincennes. 



The west end of Paris has its Bois de Boulogne for drives, 

 promenades, quiet walks, fetes, races, &c. ; it has, in fact, 

 its Kensington-gardens, Hyde Park, Green Park, and St. 

 James's Park, and more than all these in one ; but the east 

 end is equally well off in having the extensive and noble 

 Bois de Vincennes, which in some respects is quite equal 

 to the Bois de Boulogne, and in one or two even superior. 



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