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For a map with more detail, see map of, Europe, 28x30 inches, in the July, 1915, number of 



the National Geographic Magazine 



(hearts) and scallop shells, bas-reliefs 

 and a series of portrait panels. 



Most beautiful of all is the picture 

 made by the public garden and the tran- 

 septless side and apse of the stupendous 

 Gothic cathedral, with its forest of slen- 

 der, flying buttresses. Against this mag- 

 nificent background range splendid pop- 

 lars, clipped and trimmed into an im- 

 penetrable flat screen ; then smaller trees, 

 coaxed into green domes ; then the roses, 

 slender, delicate little trees coronetted 

 with fragrant bloom. And in their sea- 

 son, fair and winsome as the roses, the 



little maids of Bourges thread flowered 

 walks in confirmation dress that makes 

 them the daintiest white blooms in all the 

 town. 



THE LAND OP WINE AND VINE 



Burgundy, the Golden Side, is a land 

 of vines — vines, vines everywhere, fenced 

 in by the high stone walls of clos, grow- 

 ing in the very houseyards until there is 

 room for not a flower or weed, clinging, 

 climbing, wandering everywhere. In the 

 heart of this region is Beaune, a temper- 

 amental little city full of pink stair-tow- 



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