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THE PARC DES BUTTES CHAUMONT. 



opinions about tlie desirability of concealing the walks of a 

 naturally disposed garden as much as may be convenient. 

 A marked feature in many new French gardens is the way 

 they are exposed. In the plans of the best French landscape- 



FiG. 25. 



Plan of garden, showing how fond the French landscape-gardeners are of 

 describing sections of eggs while laying out their walks. 



gardeners it is quite ridiculous to see the way the walks 

 wind about in symmetrical twirlings^, and^ when they have 

 entwined themselves through every sweep of turf in the 

 place, seem to long for more spaces to writhe about in. 

 Most glaring instances of this are seen here, and parti- 

 cularly on the top, the highest rock, where a small temple 

 is seated. 



Near one of the entrances, here is a mixture of Indigo- 

 fera Dosua and the holly-leaved Mahonia, the first pre- 

 dominating and full of flower in summer, having the 

 delicate beauty and profusion of flowers characteristic of 



