‘SEPTEMBER. 965 
the picturesque Thistle tribe are ‘growing near the fragments of Roman 
and Greek sculpture which have been discovered in France. The herb 
Basil; and all those plants which in medieval times had mystic 
significance,” are judiciously planted near such remnants of gothic 
sculpture to which they bear resemblance. In England many showy 
flowers are rejected as common—Marigolds and Daisies for example ; 
the deep orange tints of the Marigold, the facility of growing it.in 
the poorest soil, and the certainty of a long succession of flowers, renders 
them too important in France to admit of their exclusion as too common 
for the most highly dressed gardens. ‘The Virginian Stock is a prime 
resource for covering any bare spots ; by successively sowing seeds a 
bright effect is ensured from very early spring to autumn. 
The Chapelle Expiatoire in the Rue d’Anjou St. Honore was, Gate 
the Emperor recently ordered the removal of all obstructions, nearly, 
inaccessible. The elegant chapel is now open, and the avenues leading 
tothe spot in which, after the execution of the unfortunate Louis XVI. 
and his Queen their bodies were obscurely buried, are gracefully planted 
with immortelles, bordered with ivy laid flat and flanked with a double 
row of Cypresses. Comparing the. burial-grounds, of England with 
those of France or ¢ any other country, we acknowledge our disadvantage, 
with some striking exceptions, such as the Bath Cemeteries of Lyn- 
combe and Lansdowne afford. We cannot endorse the sentimentality of 
our continental friends, but we might guard against the bleak ugliness 
of those ostentatious enclosures which, with duplicate chapels of singular 
ugliness, offend us from John 0 "Groats to Land’s-end. ‘It seems as if | 
there could be no repose for the dead in such exposed, naked, unlovely, 
ill-chosen localities. No trees, no flowers, no. shrubs; stone stone or 
brick brick, and the bare earth, on which even grass refuses to grow. 
We also pass mansions recently erected and called Klizabethan, a great 
sturdy house with an affectation of gable, buttress, and every sort of 
make- believe irregularity, pleasant enough in a really old house, when 
you seé the reason for adding room—pantry to pantry, and breaking 
out windows regardless of symmetry, because of the need there was 
for air and light ; to imitate all this instead of avoiding the necessity 
for such make-shifts and contrivances, is surely folly; and to build 
such houses remote from all that sort of scenery which is needfully 
characteristic is bad taste; we require rookeries, old hawthorns for the 
blackbirds to build in, and all the adjuncts so endeared to us by old 
association. If it is insisted upon to have houses built in 1860 like 
those of a past century, and a locality is not to be commanded in which _ 
there are fine old trees, let. us make the best of it, and imitate our — 
neighbours in France ; let large trees be femoved, no matter from what 
distance, and give to the modern edifice a vicinity somewhat in keeping, . 
and not attempt that mockery of a garden and pleasure grounds which 
it ‘will require two or three generations, to establish. We have seen 
that all this can be done with perfect success, and ought not to grudge 
the labour and cost of making the grounds and the mansion consistent. 
‘The idea of extemporising a forest did not originate with the French. 
Sir Henry Stewart many years ago removed with, success full-grown — 
forest. trees, and ean to parks and pleasure grounds which had hitherto 
