The fields of France / with twenty illustrations in color . features, ample beauty, and eyes of thedaughters of Provence. We fell in love with St. Remy: we stayed there for aweek, in the Hotel du Cheval Blanc, where the long darkconvent-like corridors and the cypress-screens behind thehouse give one already, as it were, a waft of Italy. is a delightful little place. All its streets are avenuesof great zebra-trunked century-old plane-trees, garlandedin April with quaint little hanging balls, or else of wych-elms, gay with pinkish-buff blossoms, and yet so gnarledand hollow that
The fields of France / with twenty illustrations in color . features, ample beauty, and eyes of thedaughters of Provence. We fell in love with St. Remy: we stayed there for aweek, in the Hotel du Cheval Blanc, where the long darkconvent-like corridors and the cypress-screens behind thehouse give one already, as it were, a waft of Italy. is a delightful little place. All its streets are avenuesof great zebra-trunked century-old plane-trees, garlandedin April with quaint little hanging balls, or else of wych-elms, gay with pinkish-buff blossoms, and yet so gnarledand hollow that they might almost be those famous elmswhich Sully planted about the towns of France. La VilleVerte the people call it, and never was name better as at Orange, the town has shrunk within its ancientgirdle, and has filled out its space with gardens, with 182 THE CASTLE OF BEAUCAIRE AT TARASCON on, -M tiiC .-, ine facenape of the neck H003AFIAT TA 3aiAOUA3a ^O 3JT8A0 3HT?^=while Ig^ DOW or sash of r:-ad-d-- - ~- - ^— --• incient. with. I! A LITTLE TOUR IN PROVENCE orchards, with hay-meadows. The gardens of St. Remy arethe fortune of the place, and owe to their happy situationbehind the range of the Alpines an earlier harvest of flowersand fruit than elsewhere, even in the sunny South. An acreof carnations of St. Remy is a fortune to a man, as profit-able as an acre of asparagus at Monteuil or early peas atPlougastel. If the mountains behind us, so lovely in theirlilac bareness, were duly forested and covered to the crownwith pine and ilex, we could imagine no happier the hills of Provence are as unthrifty as they arebeautiful. They absorb and retain no salutary moisturefrom the rare torrential rains of autumn, which dash downtheir ravined sides, ruining and tearing the friable soil, withnot a kindly root to stay and store them. This reforestingof mountains is a great question, nothing being moreimportant to a climate than its supply of woods and
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