The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-11-30

fare In Paris-wonderful Gardens.
There are not less than 126, 900 trees
in line within the walls of Paris, with
out including those which are found in
private gardens, SO vast and numerous
in certain aristocratic quarters, nor those
Of the public gardens. And note this
further fact that outside the public ways
there exists in this city, in the form Of
parks, gardens and public squares, to-
tai service of about 5000 acres.
Beside trees, there are plants and flow
ers throughout the town. When it is
time for Paris to take off her winter tot
let and make her appearance in spring
attire, It takes nearly /: 100 flower
plants, distributed by h., DIS of gar
deners and their assist The total
number Of plants often red for the
toilet Of this town at one is about
2,000, 900. The nurseries produce
them are situated IN va arts of the
city. In the Bots de Booie ,, near the
race course Of Longonamp the nurs-
cry grounds Of trees W caducous
leaves. At Auteuii. o. sEa lad to the
village Of Boulogne, il ly soil, ex-
cellent for their propsgatio, are placed
collection of resinous ire ,lants with
persistent leaves and he;.th Did plants.
On the banks Of the river Iarne, at q
village called Pe.;t Buy. tae lane trees
that are planted along Il ,oulevards
are cultivated, end final mt at Vim
cennes, near the barrier and lst beyond
the Notifications. a large gnment of
land Is reserved fog orDain II plants.
The central est aOlishinen is near La
Muette, out at Pussy. Ii is me of the
most considerable horJicuT raj labora-
tories in the world, and nas b, conserve
tories.
In some Of these Paris g. lens there
are 30 many diversities OF p ants that
dare not attempt to enumcIate them.
Without them, and the hundreds Of
thousands of others in Paris, many per-
sons would bend over their daily labor
and pass their lives without having had
any other spectacle before their eyes
than that Of narrow streets or the SOM
bre courtyard of tenement house, work
shop and factory.
Iwish my readers could see Paris be-
tween the Louvre palace and the west
ern end of the Bots de Boulogne, dis
lance Of about five miles, and full of
trees.
They begin with two pretty little gar
den spots in narrow open space be-
tween those wings of the Louvre that
are occupied on one side by the ministry
Of finances, on the other by the National
gallery. Then comes short, bare space,
badly paved with great blocks of stone
and called the Place du Caroussel. Be-
yond its small arch of triumph that Ma
poleon once topped with booty from the
Vatican begin the gardens of the Tuil-
cries.
Here there are orange trees in i'm
mense wooded tubs painted green, and
there is almost no grass at all. At its
beginning is q 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 stat
utes and statuary of many kinds, an i'm
mense perspective slowly rises and glori-
ously terminates with the Arc de Tri-
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 gar
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 flowers,
where the grass spreads widely out here
and there, and where great clumps of |
rhododendrons and lofty trees shroud |
buildings that are occupied as cafe con-
certs, restaurants, dioramas, circus !
and the Palais de lIndustrie
The Champs Elysees was thus laid out |
In 1850, but the work were SO well done
that it looks as if they were always thus
established. This garden park of street i
and public garden finishes at the Rond |
point, circular open space, where sey. |
eral streets cross, and where there are |
fountains, beds of flowers and rich man. !
sions. From the Rond point to the Place |
de PEtoile, or triumphal march, where |
all Is breadth, dignity and airiness, the |
avenue of the Champs Elysees is built |
up with private residences, though here
and there q grocery, a carriage store
the aristocratic bearing of the loveliest
thoroughfare in Paris. On either side of
the roadway stretches row Of trees,
and these, turning around the arch of
triumph, continue their way down the
Avenue du Bots de Boulogne, which
leads to the park of that name.
It is q thoroughfare that grandly
shows to what beauty avenue gardening
can be brought. 1t was made entirely
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 strip of about
30 feet in breadth be left for the gardens
between this railing and the main road,
and, further, that no kind Of trade or
manufacturing should be carried on in
any of the buildings adjoining. The to-
tai length of the Avenue du Bots de
Boulogne is 1850 yards, and its width is
$50. It consists of central roadway
1875 feet wide, of two asphalt sidewalks
each 40 feet wide, of ''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 residences.
cannot begin to tell you Of all of the
beauties of trees and shrubs and plants
which Paris can boast of, much less can
I describe in full those other promenades
called the Bots de Vincennes, the garden
of the Buttes Chaumont, the Pare de
Montsouris, etc. In all, Paris possesses
parks, A squares and 81 gardens
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