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has been devoted to the planting of choice kinds of hardy 

 treeSj of which there are many fine specimens in the grounds, 

 many planted before the Revolution^ and a great many newer 

 species since. Quiet and refreshingly verdant glades, a tiny 

 streamlet picturesquely meandering through them, a well 

 designed piece of water, a little Swiss village, dairy, &c., 

 erected by Marie Antoinette, constitute the chief charms of 

 the place apart from its associations. But trees and grass, 

 and shrubs and flowers, a streamlet and rocks, a lake and 



Fig. 94. 



Yiew in the garden of the Petit Trianon. 



a few picturesque buildings, how much you can do with 

 them ! We travel far and wide to see natural combina- 

 tions of a few of these, and find them lovely and diff'erent in 

 every clime. Even so may we make our gardens vary, 

 and infinitely more so, because we may combine the vege- 

 table beauties of many climes, while in nature we only get 

 a comparatively limited view of them in any one spot. 



No visitor to the Petit Trianon should omit to see the 

 Jardin des Meurs in front of the house of M. Charpentier, 



