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When trees are planted in close lines to form a shady 

 avenue, their natural tendency is to form a beautiful 

 and formal, though picturesque arch, so that clipping them 

 to obtain this is a futile barbarism. Do we want to prevent 

 them spreading forth and filling the streets with their great 

 wide heads ? If so we may select trees almost pillar-like in 

 their habit, as the Lombardy Poplar, the fastigiate Acacia, 

 and various trees of similar aspect. Do we require them 

 flat-headed and low, so that while shading the hot street 



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they may not darken all the windows ? If so we have the 

 Paulownia, of great shading power, and fine as a street tree 

 on dry soil, without a disposition to mount much higher 

 than the headed-down Limes we notice in so many London 

 street gardens. 



Meudon is much less known and visited by English 

 people than St. Cloud or Versailles, though it could hardly 

 fail to please as much as the former. For a charming view 

 of Pai'is and the intervening country it is superior to St. 

 Cloud, and equal to any spot near Paris. This view may 



