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 424
the follow-ing illustrations of the subject have been purchased for thiswork:— At Thomery the soil is of a sandy and clayey nature, andmixed with pebbles in those parts which are near the river. Thesoil is at all times easy to work. Near the Seine it lacks depth—so much so, indeed, that before… … inches to six feet in thickness. This layer is on a reddish clayof about the same thickness, and beneath the clay is a broken-upstratum of building-stone filled with fissures. This building-stone is easily extracted.The Grapes ripen a fort-night earlier in the flintydistricts than in thoseparts in…
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