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 89
ly large; and the practice of giving each plant aportion of the whole breadth of each bed to itself is betterthan the more crowded arrangements adopted in our Britishbotanic gardens. The school of botany is simply a department planted on thenatural system, remarkable for the correctness of tlie… … Effect of large umbelliferous Plant.—Garden of Plants. Chap. III.] THE GARDEN OF PLANTS. 59 singular and handsome Sacred Beans (Nelumbium) growing inthe open air. The whole is most satisfactory, with one exception—that the director places out the greenhouse and stove plants insummer to complete the…
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