The Parks Of Paris

) There are not lesa tnan 120,000 trees , in line within the walls of Paris, out inclading those which are found in ] private gardens, so vnst aixl nnmerous j in certain aristocratie quarters, nor those , of the public gardens. And note this , f nrther fact that outside the public waya there exists in this city, in the form of , parks, gardens and public squares, a , tal service of abont 3,000 acres. Beside trees, there are planta and . ers throughout the town. When it is i time for Paris to take off her winter ] let and make her appearance in spring . attiro, it takes nearly 500,000 flower j ( planta, distributed by hundreds of . deners and their assistants. The total ( number of plants ofteu employed for the toilet of this town at one time is about 2,000,000. The nurseries which produce them are situated in various parts of the j city. In the Bois de Boulogne, near the i race course of Longcluunp, are the nursery grounds of trees with caducous leaves. At Auteuil, on the road to the village of Boulogne, in a sandy soil, j cellent for their propagation, are placed a collection of resinous trees, plants with persistent leaves and heath mold plants. On the banks of the river Marne, at a village called Petit Buy, the plane trees that are planted along tho boulevards are cultivated, and finally, out at cennes, near the barrier and just beyond the fortifications, a large assigmnent of land is reserved for ornamental plants. The central establishment is near La j Muette, out at Passy. It is one of the most considerable horticultural J tories in the world, and hao 30 j tories. In some of theso Pari8 gardens there ] are so many diversities of plants that I daré not attempt to enumérate them. i Without them, and the hundreds of thonsands of others in Paris, many sons would bend over their daily labor i and pass their lives without having had any other spectacle before their eyes i than that of narrow streets or the sombre courtyard of tenement house, workshop and factory. I wiah my readers could see Paris between the Louvre palace and the western end of the Bois de Boulogne, a distance of about five miles, and full of trees. They begin with two pretty little j den spots in a narrow open space tween those wings of the Louvre that are occupied on one side by the ininistry j of finances, on the other by the National j gallery. Then comes a short, bare space, badly paved with great blocks of stone and called the Place du Caroussel. Beyünd its small arch of triumph that Napoleon once topped with booty f rom the Vatican begin the gardens of the Tuileries. Here there are orange trees in ! mense wooded tubs painted green, and there is almost no grass at all. At its beginning is a part of the Jardin des Tuileries, which was only opened to the public in 1889, and it covers the ground where once stood the palace. Thence, seen through trees, through marble statutes and statuary of many kinds, an immense perspective slowly rises and gloriously terminates with the Are de ( omphe. The details are ravishing, the ensemble is of unequaled grace and ! grandeur; no other city on earth can show its like. West of the Tuileries i dens is the grand open space known as the Place de la Concorde, and after that comes the Champs Elysees, an elysian field where wide belts of varied shrubs are encircled with choicest flovvers, ! where the grass spreads widely out here j and there, and where great cluinps of i rhododendrons and lofty trees shroud buildings that are occupied as cafe conj certs, restaurants, dioramas, a circus j and the Palais de 'Industrie. The hampa Elyseps was thus laidout in 1SCU. lut the work were so well done that it looks as if they were always thu.- established. Tliis garden park of street j and public garden finishes at the Rond point, a circular open space, where several streets cross, and where there are fountains, beda of flowers and rich inansions. From the Rond point to the Place do l'Etoile, or triuinphal inarch, where all is breadth, dignity and airiness, the avenue of the Champs Elysees is built np with private ïvsidences, though here I and there a grocery, a carriage I room or a drugshophave crept in tornar ' the aristocratie hearing of the lov thoroughfare in Paris. On either si. Ie of the roadway stretches a ruw of trees, j I and these, turning around the arch of triumph, continue their way down the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne. which leads to the park of that i It is a thoroughfare that grundly shows to what beauty avenue gardening can be brought. It was made eutirely through private land, half the expenses being borne by the state on condition that an iron railing of uniform design was to be constructed along the whole length of the road; that a strip of about 50 f eet in breadth be left for the gardens between this railing and the main road, and, further, that no kind of trade or manufacturiíiií should be carried on m any of the buildings adjoining. The total length of the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne is ,85fl yards, and its width is ': 150. It consiats of a central roadway 125 feet wiae, of two asphalt sidewalks each 40 feet wide, of a "rotten row" for horseback riders, of two long pieces of garden with grass, shrubs, trees and flowers and of two bordering roads in front of the private residentes. I cannot begin to teil you of all of the beauties of trees and shrubs and plants which Paris can boast of, mueh less can I describe in full those other promenades ■ called the Bois de Vincennes, the garden of the Buttes Chaumout, the Pare de Montsonris, etc. In all, Paris possesses 6 parks, 44 squares and 7 gardens. - Boston Herald. To tilie useiul nid the goeed, all meu (s ind khidred.