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 (1878)
Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935 · London, Macmillan · leaf 141
ich requirespecial and continual care or renewal. Generally our national gardens give no more idea of the beautyof vegetation, than the fountain-basin does of the sea. No botanicgarden in existence gives any worthy expression of the vegetationof even the cold and temperate climes of Europe alone !… … Margin of Lake nenr Temple, ivith tuft of Giant Antndo. CuAP. VII.] THE BOIS DE YIXCENNES. 109 This plan might be continued, if we have no higher object than toprocure specimens to illustrate the scientific names that men havegiven plants. But if our aim be to show the inexhaustible beautyand…
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