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 52
ONCEAU. 21 of garden-decoration, wliicli simply means the use in gardensof plants having large leaves, picturesque habit, or gracefulport, has taught us the value of grace and verdure amid massesof low, brilliant, and unrelieved fluwers, and has reminded ushow far we have diverged from Natures ways… … SKETCH IN THE PARC MONCEAU. relieved by a setting of alnuidant green; and even where moun-tain and meadow plants of a few kinds produce a wide blaze ofcolour at one season, there is intermingled a spray of pointedgrass and other leaves, which tone down the mass and quite sepa-rate it from anything…
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