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Show fier masses of wallflowers are to he seen there are also trees enough to make a bower of 'pleasantness to drive dull careaway. Ex. Wallflowers In Paris. Amongst tho many rural elegancies elegan-cies that makes Paris the freshest and brightest of cities, wo must give a large place to the Wallflower. We see wallflowers in plenty in all parts of Europe, and even in London they are not unknown. But really you must go to Paris to see wallflowers just right, and to learn thereby how cheap is beauty and universal is the medicine medi-cine of gladness for the single eye that is full of light On a sunny day in April you may see in the Pare de Monceaux, and other such places, what at a moderate distance look like beds of crimson Azaleas; but when you reach the spot you find them to be beds of wallflowers solid with bloom, quite uniform in height, and, as the gardeners say, ! -"as neat as if turned out of a bandbox." band-box." Almost invariably the sorts -employed are the deep blood-red .ana the bluish-purple, all tin slaty blues being repudiated, and . the best vellowa being scarcely anywhere any-where represented. These purples purp-les and blood-reds are mixed throughout in equal proportions, and the near view of them is as enjoyable en-joyable aa the distant view is surprising. The odour diffused Adds very much to the. charm of the golden-green leafage of the Jtrees overhead, tor whenever these |