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 49
the open air. The old narrow idea that a small portion of groundin a town suffices to worthily represent vegetation in a publicgarden—the idea that we see illustrated in so many continentalcities, and in some dozen of our own—must be got rid of beforewe ever see ornamental horticulture properly… … BOIS DE BOULOGNE.Line of rlanes near the Mare cfAntetiil, shcnviug scrubby MOod and crirnuicdplanting. garden should be laid out on a sensible plan; secondly, that itshould not be devoted to imitating what is done everywhere else.Beautiful it might be made with every flower or tree that thosewho…
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