The Apple Trees in the Luxembourg Gardens 
Tucked off in a corner of the Luxembourg Gardens is the 
most entrancing triangular orchard of "arbres taillees." We 
found it one day last spring in the far south-west corner and 
henceforth we shall always call on it when we go to Paris. 
The trees are the primmest and neatest imaginable. They 
grow in every shape and have an air of smug content that 
reminds you of a very pink and white baby all dressed up to 
have its picture taken. In early April they were all in bloom, 
their little spurs of blossoms so regularly placed and so delicate- 
ly colored that they seemed too good to be true. 
There are lattices, square and diamond-shaped, seven- 
branched candlesticks, candelabra with four and six and eight 
arms, high twisted poles, pyramids and balls and garlands. 
They do not look tortured or artificial, just gay and tidy. They 
should have a poem instead of a paragraph written about them. 
Be sure to find them when you go to Paris. Probably in 
autumn they are as pretty as in the spring and at any time 
their beautiful symmetry will please you. You will laugh at 
them as little garden jokes and you will admire them as examples 
of beautiful and skillful gardening. 
K. L. B. 
Evergreen Euonymus Vines and Shrubs. 
Euonymus radicans. A good evergreen vine in the north 
for a flat wall cover. It must be kept closely cut back as it will 
branch rather awkwardly otherwise. It can be used as a 
mathematically perfect edging, 15 inches wide and 6 inches 
high when carefully clipped. It will make a thick hedge in New 
England when grown on an iron fence. It thrives in sun or 
shade though not luxuriantly as a ground cover in woods. 
It is a dull, dark slate-green color, likely to be or become 
variegated with yellowish-white. As a free growing vine it is 
less desirable than its varieties. 
E. radicans vegetus. Much the best free growing evergreen 
vine in New England. It cannot be kept as close as the species 
but stands clipping well when desirable. When allowed to 
develop naturally it adapts itself picturesquely to walls, ledges 
and trees. It will make an excellent hedge 3 ft. wide and 4 ft. 
high which can be clipped, or a specimen round-headed bush 
5ft. high and. 6 ft. or 8 ft. in diameter. It is a warm olive-green 
color. In the autumn it is generally covered with conspicuous 
orange-scarlet fruit. 
E. radicans Carrieri. Serves much the same purpose as 
vegetus and seems to thrive better where the soil has much lime. 
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