THE CHAMPS ELYSEES. 



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numerous large and well-made banks and beds of Rhodo- 

 dendrons, Azaleas, hollies, and the best shrnbs and trees 

 generally, with abundant room for planting summer flowers, 

 chiefly, however, as margins to the clumps of shrubs. The 

 gardens end at the Bond Point, a circular open space, 

 in which there are large beds for flowers, fountains, 

 &c., disfigured, however, by the undulations which some 

 poor little bits of grass are made to assume. Useless and 

 unnatural diversification of the ground in some small spaces, 

 and the lumping together of too many things in one mass, 

 are the weak points in the gardening of Paris. Above this 

 Rond Point, a very wide footway of about sixty feet, shaded 

 by two rows of trees, divides the avenue from the houses 

 which here approach its sides. Instead of following the 

 avenue up towards the Arc side we stop at the Rond Point, 

 glance at the masses of Hibiscus, Caladium, and Papyrus of 

 the Nile which embellish it, and then descend the garden 

 by the side of the Rue du Paubourg St. Honore. 



Here we presently meet with a circus, a neat little 



Fig. 2. 



Circus in tlae Gardens of the Champs Elj^sees. 



theatre, concert halls, &c., all dropped down in the quietest 

 way amidst the choicest trees ^and flowers, and many veri- 



