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growing and flowering shoots, very few subjects look more 

 pleasing in the flower garden. The mixture of Phloxes, 

 Gladiolij CEnothera speciosa, Fuchsias, Pelargoniums, large 

 yellow Achillea, &c., to be seen here every summer and 

 autumn, is quite attractive, and much more varied than is 

 now often the case. They also have the subtropical 

 I system, and rather more tastefully than elsewhere. Thus 

 [in one part may be seen a graceful mixture of a variety of 

 fine-leaved plants with an edging of Fuchsias, instead of 

 the ponderous mass of 500 jolants of one variety of Canna, 

 which you sometimes meet with in other places about Paris. 

 I M. Eiviere is fond of having mixed beds of ferns in the 

 * open air, isolated specimens of tree ferns, Woodwardias 

 !, elevated on moss-covered stands, &c. and their effect is 

 I usually very good. The planting of the vases too is good. 

 Instead of using only flat-headed subjects, as many do with 

 ! us, they place in the centre of each a medium- sized plant of 

 i the New Zealand flax, with its long and boldly graceful 

 leaves, and then set geraniums, &c., around, finishing ofi* 

 with the ivy-leaved geranium, the Tropseolum, &c., for 

 drooping over the margin. 



The efiect of the fountain of Jacques Debrosse and its 

 surroundings is the most satisfactory of the sort I have ever 

 seen. The frontispiece, engraved from a photograph, almost 

 does away with the necessity for a written description of it. 

 Stretching from the foot of the fountain there is a long 

 : water-basin, a walk on each side of that bordered with 

 I Plane trees, which meeting overhead make a long leafy 

 arch, so that the eff'ect of the fountain group at the end, 

 representing Polyphemus discovering Acis and Galatea, is 

 , very fine. It is of course heightened by the leafy canopy 

 I of Planes, but very much more so by the way in which the 

 Ivy and Virginian creeper are made to form graceful 

 I wreaths from tree to tree. Between the trees the Irish 

 [ ivy is planted, and then trained up in rich graceful wreaths, 

 ' so as to join the stems at about eight feet from the ground. 

 At about a foot or so above the ivy another and almost 

 straight wreath of Virginian creeper is placed, and the 

 efiect of these two simple wreaths from tree to tree is 



