THE GARDEN. l53 



At the foot of the smaller hill is a large oval 

 enclosure, in front of the amphitheatre, with the 

 seed-garden, the green-house, and the menagerie 

 on the right ; and the dwellings of several pro- 

 fessors, and beyond, the gate of the rue de Seine 

 on the left. This enclosure is destined for the 

 exposure during the fine weather, of the most 

 beautiful trees of New Holland, the Cape of Good 

 Hope, Asia Minor and the coast of Barbary, which 

 have passed the winter in the green-house. They 

 are placed in picturesque groupes, and the turf 

 is interspersed at small distances with ornamental 

 flowers. In the centre is a large stone table, 

 surrounded by the tallest trees, and covered with 

 plants remarkable for the beauty and brilliancy 

 of their flowers. 



At the door of the amphitheatre are two beau- 

 tiful Sicilian palms, chamcerops humilis, 25 feet in 

 stature, which were sent to Louis the Fourteenth 

 by the Margrave of Bade-Dourlach, at the begin- 

 ning of the last century, when only 12 feet high. 

 These vegetables never attain so great a height in 

 Italy or Spain. They are attached by cords de- 

 scending from the summit to the angles of the 

 boxes, to prevent their being broken by the 

 wind. As they grow from the summit, and not 

 by lateral buds, they exhibit no layers in the 

 trunk, and as they every year put forth new 



