. 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. THE SQUARES, PLACES, CHURCH GARDENS, ETC. 91 persons having a claim over the smallest squares in London—those that have been substituted for the little private gardens—would see that it was to their interest and for the benefit of everybody living near the square that it should be cheerfully decorated, well kept, open to the public at all reasonable hours, and a place where a working man, too tired to walk to a distant park, c
. 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. THE SQUARES, PLACES, CHURCH GARDENS, ETC. 91 persons having a claim over the smallest squares in London—those that have been substituted for the little private gardens—would see that it was to their interest and for the benefit of everybody living near the square that it should be cheerfully decorated, well kept, open to the public at all reasonable hours, and a place where a working man, too tired to walk to a distant park, could sit down to rest without the necessity of resorting to the public- house or any like place. The Square St. Jacques, already alluded to, is so placed that every visitor to Paris must see it. The next to be noticed is rather out of the usual route of the English visitor. The Square des Batignolles is one of the largest and best worth seeing in Paris. Entering it from its lower side, the general scheme is seen to be that of a little vale, down which meanders a streamlet, ending in a small round piece of water. The margins of this streamlet are variously embellished with suitable plants: the rich grassy sides slope up till they end in dense plantations of the choicest shrubs, so well planted and watered that they look as fresh as if growing twenty miles from a large city. Let us walk round—the margin of the shallow grassy vale to our right, the boundary shrubberies and the railing to our left. The walk expands from a pia 34 breadth of ten or a dozen feet to forty, in the first corner of the square, so that the children find little playgrounds without going on the vividly green grass. The first attraction to the eye on the right is a group of the variegated maize springing out of a mass of Portion of plan of Parisian square, showing -r. A- the widening of the walk to form a play- dwarf Phlox Drummondl. ground, with seats and shade-giving trees. Beyond it is a group
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