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estier, a fine plant, 4 feet higli and 2i feet through, 

 about 25 flowers, the color cream, deepening to 

 primrose ; Madame Hoste, Madame Damaizin, 

 Madame Marie Rodj^, a large Macaulay-like flower, 

 very fine ; Alba mutabilis, Bernard Palissy, Glory 

 ofWaltham. • 



Messrs. Paul & Son, of Cheshunt, presented a 

 beautiful group, comprising Marechal Niel, (rich, 

 lemon yellow, the best example of it in the exhibi- 

 tion), Madame Moreau, Mile. Berthe Leveque, 

 Madame Victor Verdier, Souvenir d'un Ami, Pierre 

 Netting, Victor Verdier, General Jacqueminot, 

 Madame Pillion, Charles Lawson, Madame Willer- 

 moz, Lord Clyde, Madame Caillat, Charles Boail- 

 lard, Madame C. Wood, Celine Forestier, (white, 

 with yellow centre, beautiful), Princess Mary of 

 Cambridge, Exposition de Brie, Vainqueur de Go- 

 liath, Alfred Colomb,Achille Gonod, Fisher Holmes, 

 Souvenir de Dr. Jamain. 



A collection of cut roses from Messrs. Paul & 

 Son, comprised beautiful examples ot Victor Ver- 

 dier, Duke of Welhngl on,Alba Rosea, Exposition de 

 Brie, Marcella, Comte Alphonse de Serenye, Ba- 

 ronne A de Rothschild, Senate ur Vaisse, Madame 

 Victor Verdier, Marechal Niel, (a fine example, the 

 color lemon yellow, J) Beauty of Waltham. Pierre 

 Notting, (fine,) President, Madame A. de Rouge- 

 mont, (a lovely rose, better doubtless than of pure 

 white,) Duchess de Medina Coeli, Camille Bernard- 

 in, Triomphe de Rennes, Lamarque, Marechal Niel 

 (better color than in Mr. W. Paul's lot, coming 

 very near to clear yellow). General Jacqueminot, 

 (still goo 1), Madame William, Devoniensis, (pale 

 primrose), Centifolia Rosea. Messrs. Paul & Son 

 also put up a great collection of cut roses that were 

 alike delightlul for beauty of form and color and 

 fragrance. 



Paris^ July^ 1867. 



Dear Monthly :— When you saw the hand- 

 writing Oil the envelope you "saw better twice than 

 once, better once than not at all," forgive your dila- 

 tory "occasional," who is very occasional indeed, and 

 a very busy and frail mortal withal. But to busi- 

 ness and into medias res at once. 



A change of scenery has just been made in what 

 is called lejardin reserve de V Exposition unwerselle^ 

 which I want to describe to you. So rapid a change 

 though that it reminds you of those made on the 

 stage at a whistles notice. All plants, shrubs, etc., 



that have done flowering, have been removed over 

 night and the garden has changed appearance by 

 new plants, flowers, etc., all in full bloom, and by 

 new arrangements. These changes will go on until 

 Chrysanthemums, Euonymous, etc., close the year. 

 If the Exposition continues through the winter, we 

 shall have one-half the garden laid out as winter 

 scenery and the other half roofed in into Cape and 

 Australia scenery. 



I wish you had seen the ground on which this 

 fairy garden rose. In winter a swamp, in summer 

 a sand heap. Not a trace left to discover the orig- 

 inal ground. Hills thrown up, valleys dug, streams 

 meandering and collected into lakes, over forty con- 

 structions built on it, some really artistic works of 

 art most pleasing to the eye and well adapted to 

 to their purpose. Plants from all parts of the 

 known world. Old trees successfully transplanted, 

 amongst them a fine Acer platanus and a(8panish) 

 Chestnut tree, so shady and so thrifty that one's no- 

 tions begin to get shaken, and that one gets almost 

 inclined to think that vegetation henceforth courts 

 locomotion. 



Who is the spirit that made praise, this fairy 

 abode, their delightful realms ? I quote the pro- 

 menading folks and — per parenthesis — these folks 

 are, if foreigners, generally such whose means have 

 schooled their taste and if French, the best natural 

 critics. 



The name of this spirit is Barillet, City gardener, 

 or better Jardinier en chief de la Villa de Paris. 

 No small charge thin, considering the many green 

 places, Squares, Parks, grass borders, shade trees, 

 etc., of this vast city, and the continual increase of 

 them. Considering also the ambition of the Paris 

 people and of the authorities to beautify Paris 

 more and more. 



Now with the exception of the making and lay- 

 ing out of the grounds, everything your eyes see in 

 this reserved garden is 'exhibited.' Every tree, 

 every shrub, every plant, every group, every basket, 

 every border, every, everything. The exhibitor, 

 under the auspices of Mr. Barillet had also to do 

 the work of planting, grouping, etc. Thus the gar- 

 den is the collective product of numerous contribu- 

 tors, not only of gardeners proper, but of all allied 

 arts and handicrafts. 



Thus some one exhibits a bed of lava for the pond, 

 another rustic cottages 'chalets,' another bridges; 

 thus the great fence enclosing the garden, repre- 

 sents several foundries and is harmoniously put 

 together. 



Some of the finest collections have been brought 

 hither from the Island of Hyeres. It is one of the 



