The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-12-14
H PARKS OF PARIS.
AeoREsT OF TREES AND FLOWERS IN
PROPULSION.

An Immense Perspective Unequaled in
Any Other City In the World-The
Champs Elysees. the Loveliest Thorough.
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, q TO-
ral service Of about 5000 acres.
Beside trees. there are plants and flow
ers throughout the town. When 1t Is
time for Paris to take off her winter tot
let ana make her appearance in spring
attire, it takes nearly 500. 900 flower
plants, distributed by hundreds of gar
deners and their assistants. Tn total
number of plants often employed for the
toilet Of this town at one time Is about
p.000. 900. The nurseries which produce
them are situated in various parts OF the
cirv. Ir the Bots de b%oulogne, near the
race course Of Longchamp, are the nurs-
ery grounds of trees with caducous
leaves. AT Auteuil on the road to the
village of Eoulogn' i'll IA sandy soil. eX-
cellent for their propagation, are placed
a collection of res nous trees. plants with
persistent leaves md heath mold plants.
ON the banks Of the river Marine, at a
village called Petit Buy, the plane trees
-l,t ,., ,1ayt.I aln,tr tho hn1Ilpy1rIS
are cultivated, and finally. out at Vim
eennes, near the barrier and just beyond
the Notifications, a large assignment Of
land is reserved for ornamental plants.
The central establishment is near La
Muette, ont at Passy. 1t is II of the
most considerable horticultural labora-
tories in the world, and has 30 conserva-
tories.
In some of these Paris gardens there
are SO many diversities of plants that
dare not attempt to enumerate them.
Without them. and the hundreds of
thousands of others III 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 tte ~nia-
bre courtyard of tenement house. worH.
shop and factory.
wish my readers could see Paris he,
tween the Louvre palace and tie W =
ern end Of the Beis - Benign, a ,i.s-
tauee Of about five niles. and full ef
trees.
They begin with w prett" little e54r.
den spots III a harrow open sptte b..
tween those wing II the Louvre that
are occupied on one side by tine ministry
of finances. Oh the other by National
gallery. Then comes "a short. bare space.
badly paved wiki great blocks OF stone
and called thu Place du CaroEssel. Be.
vond 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 orang trees III liza,
mense wooded tubs painted green, and
there is almost 10 grass at all. AT it,
beginning i a part Of the Jardin de.
Tuileries. which was only opened to the
public i'll 1889. and it covers the grouno
where once stood the palace. Thence
seen through trees, through marble stat
utes aud statnary IF many kinds, an i'm
mense perspective slowly rise, and glorl
ously terminates with the Arc de Irl
omphe. The details are raylshlng, tn,
ensemble is Of u~neqnaled grace an,
grandeur; no other city on earth cal
show its like. West OF the Tuileries gar
lens is the grand open space known a
the Place de la Concorde, and after tina
comes the Champs Elysees, an elysial
field where wide belts of varied shrub
are encircled with choicest flowers
where the grass spreads widely out her
and there. and where great clumps o
rhododendrons and lofty trees shrout
buildings that are occupied as cafe con
certs, restaurants. dioramas, a circu
and the Palais de ~lIndustrie.
The Champs Elysees WAS thus laid GU
in 1850, Int the work We're SO well don
that it looks AS if they were always thu
established. This garden park OF stree
and public garden finishes at the Rom
point. IA circular open space. where seV
eral streets cross. and where there ar
fountains, beds of flowers and rich man
sions. From tire Rond point to the Plac
de l'Etoile, or triumphal march, wher
all is breadth, dignity and alrlness. tn
avenue Of the Champs Elysees Is buil
up with private residences. though her
and there a grocery, a carriage slor'
room or a drugshop have crept III to M
the a~ristocratic bearing OF the iovelle'
thoroughfare in Paris. On either SIDE {
the roadway stretches a row OF tree
and these. turning around the arch
triumph. continue their way down II
Avenue du Bots dpABoulogne, who
feads to the park of that name. j.
1T il a thoroughfsrA that grand
shows to what beauty avenue gardenii
czn be brought. 1t was made entire
through private land. half ne expens
being borne by the state ON cendlf1t
that an iron railing OF uniformsdesl-
was to be constructed along the WHO
length of the road; thai a strap Oh D
80 feet in breadth be lett Tor the gara.'
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