SECOND PERIOD. 4 1 



fort, as being more convenient, and already 

 generally received throughout Europe; and the 

 botanical lectures were from that moment re- 

 gularly given. The botanic garden and orangery 

 were enclosed with an iron railing. A building, 

 begun at the corner of the orangery for a green- 

 house , of which the construction did not ans- 

 wer the desired purpose, was demolished, and 

 only the cellars and such portions of the walls 

 preserved as were necessary to support the 

 terrace of the upper green-house ; under which 

 convenient shelters were formed for delicate 

 plants. With the ruins of this building and 

 the bad soil from the botanic garden , a gentle 

 slope was formed from the lower alleys to 

 the rising ground, ornamented on each side 

 by rows of dwarf elms and an iron balustrade. 



Some years after, Buff on undertook to pro- 

 long the garden, and to double its extent, by the 

 addition of the land which separated it from the 

 rue de Seine, and by demolishing the houses near 

 the residence of the intendant and the great 

 southern alley. 



This space, occupied by plants of domestic 

 use, belonged almost exclusively to the monks 

 of Saint- Victor's Abbey : some woodyards near 

 the quay, were municipal property , let by the 

 city to timber merchants. The municipal admi- 



