. The parks and gardens of Paris, considered in relation to the wants of other cities and of the public and private gardens; being notes on a study of Paris gardens. Gardening; Gardens; Parks. Chap. III.] THE GARDEN OP PLANTS. 59 m was no singular and handsome Sacred Beans (Nelumbium) growing i_ the open air. The whole is most satisfactory, with one exception —that the director places out the greenhouse and stove plants in summer to complete the natural orders in the beds. These poor plants are stored pell-mell in winter in a great orangery, from which they are taken out in early summer litera
. The parks and gardens of Paris, considered in relation to the wants of other cities and of the public and private gardens; being notes on a study of Paris gardens. Gardening; Gardens; Parks. Chap. III.] THE GARDEN OP PLANTS. 59 m was no singular and handsome Sacred Beans (Nelumbium) growing i_ the open air. The whole is most satisfactory, with one exception —that the director places out the greenhouse and stove plants in summer to complete the natural orders in the beds. These poor plants are stored pell-mell in winter in a great orangery, from which they are taken out in early summer literally more' dead than alive. They make a few leaves during the summer, and are again put into their den to sicken or die. Here among the herbaceous plants growing on a rough old stake is a beautiful plant of Ivy, trained in a way suggestive' of what may be done with other Ivies in similar ways. Placed in a narrow bed here in the botanical arrangement there attempt whatever at making it " ornamental," and yet the result, as will be seen by the woodcut (p. 51), is more beautiful than if planted or trained on a wall. The noble leaves clothed the stake, and the shoots about the bottom began to wander over the ground in the most charming way, even here among these stiff and narrow beds, which seemed designed to destroy all beauty and individuality in plants. On a lawn it may be imagined how much prettier it would be. This is probably the best way of growing the finer kinds of Ivy. It would be difficult to imagine anything more beautiful than a group of pyramids, each of a different kind of Ivy, springing from the turf in some quiet corner of the garden. There is a Cedar of Lebanon, planted by Jussieu, to whom it was given by the English botanist CoUinson. It is the first Cedar ever planted in France. Beyond this there is not much tree-beauty in the garden, though there are several new or rare hardy trees, some of which have been drawn and engraved for this book; among them
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