THE SITE 
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formerly owned by the late Sir Richard Wallace, 
is a pleasant drive from Paris, and the place 
is kept up by the French Government. The 
chateau is used for exhibitions of pictures, lace, 
and so forth, and also for music ; the lovely 
gardens are at the disposal of the public. 
Everything is done to encourage a love of 
gardening. You are made to feel when you 
enter that it exists solely for your pleasure 
and instruction. The Director and gardeners 
are there primarily for the purpose of impart- 
ing information to the casual inquirer. Even 
if you have no garden of your own, you are 
entitled to go there and take up as much of 
the Director’s time as you can get, probably to 
learn something about the newest roses and 
their culture. For this is chiefly a rose garden, 
and the lovely lawns have been intersected in 
every direction by pergolas and pillars of swing- 
ing and trailing roses, lending lightness and 
grace to the hundreds of dwarf roses, in all the 
new as well as the well-known varieties that 
are massed in beds. The old walls are draped 
with the loveliest of clematis and flowering 
creepers, and, as long as you go there within 
the prescribed times, you will find someone 
willing — nay, anxious — to pour out rivers of 
knowledge as to their cultivation. 
