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THE JARDIN FLEURISTE AND OTHER 



in many English gardens where space may be limited, and 

 much expense out of the question. In these caves were 

 also preserved Brugmansias, American and other Agaves, 

 Dahlias, Fuchsias, &c, and it seemed to me about the best 

 possible place for storing such plants. 



The quantities in which you see rare things and new 

 bedding plants here are surprising. Houses, eighty and a 

 hundred feet long, are filled with one variety ; and others of 

 equal size are devoted to the raising of seedling palms, &c, 



Fig. 59. 



Caves under the Jardin Fleuriste, used for storing large quantities ol tender 

 plants in winter. 



in large quantities. If a plant be considered worthy of 

 attention at all it is propagated by the thousand; 30,000 

 being the opening quantity for a new thing of any promise. 

 During the past autumn 50,000 cuttings of one kind of 

 Fuchsia were inserted in one week. Dracaenas are 

 grown here more abundantly than variegated Pelargoniums 

 in many a large English bedding garden, and the Jardin 

 Fleuriste is believed to possess the finest collection of them 

 in existence. In one house a specimen of each kind has 

 been recently planted out for trial in the central pit, and 



