. 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. Tub for Orange Trees. anything more useful in its way. Large specimen plants are quickly and easily moved by this means. The pot or tub is caught by the little iron feet, then thrown on its side and tied firmly if a long distance has to be traversed. Tubs for Orange Trees, &c. —Oranges, Oleanders, &c, are so much grown on the Continent that good kinds of tubs are of high importance. There can be little doubt that the s
. 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. Tub for Orange Trees. anything more useful in its way. Large specimen plants are quickly and easily moved by this means. The pot or tub is caught by the little iron feet, then thrown on its side and tied firmly if a long distance has to be traversed. Tubs for Orange Trees, &c. —Oranges, Oleanders, &c, are so much grown on the Continent that good kinds of tubs are of high importance. There can be little doubt that the square tubs now employed in the public gar- dens of Paris are the best and most durable. I mean those with the hollow cast-iron frame and bottom, and wooden sides. In their case renewing the sides from time to time is not a matter of much expense. The tub here figured is a well-made wooden one, with a wide ornamental margin of metal. The effect with good specimens is superior to that of the square ones in common use, but it is very expensive. Garden Chairs and Seats.—The kind of chair shown in Fig. 312 is seen in quantities in all public places in Paris. It has a convex seat made of flexible strips of metal springing from the sides and joined together in a little central piece. These chairs stand any weather, and are nevertheless as elastic as a drawing-room one. A very neat, elegant, and com- fortable conservatory, pleasure-ground, or summer-house chair is composed of three of these seats united in one, the larger framework of the back and sides being made of rustic iron about as thick as the thumb, the smaller spray being tied to the larger by imi- tation osier twigs. This is made by M. Carre, the maker of the greater number of chairs in this way. There are many modifications of this kind of chair. One on much the same principle, but with the elastic bands cross- ing from side to side instead of all ending in the centre, is made o o 2 Fig. Please note that these imag
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