. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. GARDENS, STREETS, ETC. 163 disagreeable moisture round us in winter, which we are cer- tainly better without. I am certain that if the expense and trouble taken to plant evergreens in cities were devoted to the best of our deciduous trees and shrubs, a beauty would result to which towns are at present strangers. Even in parks and places Fig. Sophora japonica var. pendula. One of the many deciduous trees of which the wintr
. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. GARDENS, STREETS, ETC. 163 disagreeable moisture round us in winter, which we are cer- tainly better without. I am certain that if the expense and trouble taken to plant evergreens in cities were devoted to the best of our deciduous trees and shrubs, a beauty would result to which towns are at present strangers. Even in parks and places Fig. Sophora japonica var. pendula. One of the many deciduous trees of which the wintry aspect is preferable to that presented by smutty and half-dead " ever- greens.' ' where one would be led to expect a tolerable display of fine flowering deciduous trees, the shrubbery vegetation is so in- tolerably poor and monotonous—so devoid of variety and interest—that it is not surprising that town planters fall back on evergreens and plant little else round their churches and in their squares. A fine double Cherry, pyramidal in outline, and hung with snowy bouquets, seen against one of m 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935. London, J. Murray
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