Formal Flower-Beds 
palaces; and so, on a larger scale, are the 
beautiful new gardens which lie where the 
Tuileries palace stood — between the great 
Tuileries gardens with their ranges of an- 
cient trees, and the paved courtyard of the 
Louvre. 
The flower-beds in these spots, I say, are 
formal in outline ; but they are merely long- 
simple strips, not true pattern-beds, nor do 
the plants which fill them grow in patterns. 
They are disposed with a certain symmetry, 
but neither disposed nor grown with mathe- 
matical precision. Shrubby perennials — - 
standard roses, dwarf standard althaeas, and 
Persian or Chinese lilacs being the favorites 
— are set at regular intervals along the cen- 
tre of a bed, its ends or corners being com- 
monly marked by rather taller specimens. 
Between these, conspicuous plants of lesser 
height are set, and then the bed is filled to 
its edges with a varied mass of still lower 
plants. In August and September I noted, 
among those of medium size, dahlias of 
different heights, gladioli, cannas, asters, 
and bush-daisies ; and, among the low ones, 
geraniums, heliotropes, tuberous begonias, 
