Show THE PARKS OF PARIS OF TREES AND FLOWERS IN PROFUSION I 1 an immense Ini menio perspective unequaled la in any other city la in the World The champ Lly sees the loveliest Lorel leet thorough fare in paris purl s wonderful vond erful gard Gor gordena deni one there are not less than trees in line within the walla walls of paris without including those which are found in private gardens so vast and numerous in certain aristocratic quarters nor those of tho the public gardens and note this further fact that outside the public ways there exists in this city in the form of parks gardens and public squares a total service of about acres beside trees there are arc plants and flowers e rs throughout the town when it ig is time for paris to take off her winter toilet and make her appearance in spring attire it takes nearly flower plants distributed by hundreds of gardeners and their assistants the total number of plants often employed for the toilet of this town at one time is about abou t the nurseries which produce them aro are situated in various parts of the city in the bois de do boulogne near the race course of lon longchamp champ are the nursery grounds of trees with leaves at auteuil dauteuil Aut euil on the road to the village of boulogne in a sandy soil boil excellent for their propagation ar are 0 I 1 placed a collection of resinous trees plants with persistent leaves and heath mold plants on the banks of tho the river marne morris at a village called petit buy the plane trees t that I 1 bat are planted along the boulevards are c cultivated and finally out at vincennes near the barrier and just beyond the fortifications a largo large assignment ign ment of land is reserved for ornamental plants the central establishment is near la muette out at passy it is one of the most considerable horticultural laboratories in the world and has 30 conserva tories in some of these paris gardens there are so many diversities of plants that I 1 dare not attempt to enumerate them without them and the hundreds of thousands of others in paris many persons would bend over their daily labor and pass their lives without having had any other spectacle before their eyes than that of narrow streets or the sombre courtyard of tenement housework house workshop and factory I 1 wish my readers could see paris between the louvre palace and the western end of the bois de do boulogne a distance of about five miles and full of trees they begin with two pretty little garden spots in a narrow open space between those thos wings owings of the louvre that are occupied on one elde side by the ministry of finances on the other by the national gallery then comes a short bare space badly paved with groat blocks of stone and called the place tin du Ca roussel beyond its small arch of triumph that na po I 1 eon 0 topped with booty from the vatican bican begin tho the gardens of the tuil tull erics cries hero here there aro are orange trees in immense wooded tuba tubs painted green and there is 1 almost no grass at all at its beginning is a part of the jardin des tuileries Tuil eries which was only opened to the public in IM 1889 and it covers tho the ground where once stood the palace thence seen through trees through marble statutes tes and statuary of many kinds an immense men so perspective slowly rises and gloriously terminates with the arc de do tri ompha the details are ravishing the ensemble is of grace and grandeur no other city on earth can ebow its like west of the tuileries Tuil eries garns ms is the grand open space known as tIie Place do la concorde and after r that comes the champs hyso 1 I u cly aidiS old where wide belts of varied dhru aro 0 encircled with choicest flowe flowery where the grass spreads widely ou out t berb her and there and where great clumps of rhododendrons and lofty trees shroud d buildings th that at aro are occupied as cafe concerts restaurants diora dioramas masv a circus and the palais de do FIndus trie the champs was thus laid out in 1860 1800 but the work were so well done that it looks as it if they were always thus established this garden park of st street and public garden finishes at the rond point a circular open olen space chero several streets cross and where there are fountains beds of flowers and rich mansions from the rond point to the place do delEtoile rE toile or triumphal march where all is breadth dignity and airiness the avenue e of the e champs sEly sees inbuilt is built u up p with private residences though hero here and there a grocery gatoc ery a carriage storeroom or a drugs hoph have 0 o crept in to mar the aristocratic bearing of the loveliest thoroughfare alifare in paris on cither either side of the roadway stretches a row of trees and these turning around the arch of triumph continue their way down the avenue da du bois de boulogne which leads to the park of that name it is a thoroughfare that grandly shows to what beauty avenue gardening can bo be brou brought glit etwas it was made entirely through ugh eriv private ato land half tho the expenses being borne by the state on condition that an iron railing of uniform design was to bo be constructed along the whole length of the road that a strip of about 50 feet in breadth bo be left for the gardens between this railing and the main road all and d further that no kind of trade or manufacturing should be carried on in any of tho the buildings adjoining tho the total length of the avenue da boie bois do Boulo boulogne guo is 1350 1330 yards and its width is it consists of a central broadw roadway ay feet wide of two asphalt sidewalks each 40 feet wide of a rotten row for horseback riders of two long pieces of garden with grass grau shrubs trees and flo flowers vers 1 md and of two bordering roads in front of the private residences I 1 cannot begin to tell yon you of all of tho the beauties of trees and shrubs and plants which paris can boast of much less can I 1 describe in full those other brome promenades nade a called the I 1 bois do vincen vincennes nes nea the garden of the buttes Chaumont tho pare de do ris etc in all paris ris possesses 0 parks 41 44 squares and 87 37 gardens B boston os to n lI herald erald |