The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-12-06
THE PARKS OF PARIS.
aFoREsT or TREES AND FLOWERS IN
PROPULSION.

Am Immense Perspective U~nequaied I'm
Any Other City In the worid-The
Champs Elysees, the Loveiiest thorough
fare In Paris-wonderfni 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
I'm 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-
tai service of about 5000 acres.
Beside trees, there are plants and fow-
ers throughout the town. When 1t is
time for Paris to take off her winter tot
let and make her appearance in spring
attire, it takes nearly SOC, 900 flower
plants, distributed by hundreds of gar
deners and their assistants. The total
number of plants often employed for the
toilet of this town at one time is about
a,OOO, COO. The nurseries which produce
them are situated in various parts of the
city. In the Bots de Boulogne, near the
race course of L~ongchamp, are the nurs
cry grounds. of trees with caducous
leaves. At Auteuil, on the road to the
village of Boulogne, in a sandy soil, ex-
oellent for their propagation, are placed
a collection of resinous trees, plants with
persistent leaves and heath mold plants.
On the banks of the river Marine, at q
village called Petit Buy, the plane trees
that are planted along the boulevards
are cultivated, and finally, out at Vim
cennes, 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, out at Passy. It Is one of the
most considerable horticultural labora-
tories in the world, and has 80 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 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.
/ wish my readers could see Paris be-
tween the Louvre palace and the west
ern end of the Bots de Boulogne, a dis
lance of about five miles, and full of
trees.
They begin with two pretty little gar
den spots in a 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 a short, lare 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 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 stat.
sutes 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 cal
show its like. West of the Tuileries gar
dens is the grand open space known al
the Place de la Concorde, and after thai
comes the Champs Elysees, an elysiar
field where wide belts of varied shrubs
are encircled with choicest flowers
where the grass spreads widely out herr
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 rIndustrie.
The Champs Elysees was thus laid GU
in 1860. hut 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 Ron
point. a circular open space, where sey
eral streets cross, and where there ar
fountains, beds of flowers and rich mar
sions. From the Rond point to the Plac
de FEtoile, or triumphal march, whel
all is breadth, dignity and airiness, tl
avenue of the Champs Elysees is bui
up with private residences, though hel
and there q grocery, a carriage stor
room or a drugshop have crept in to mi
the aristocratic bearing Of the lovelie
thoroughfare in Paris. On either side
the roadway stretches a row Of tree
and these, turning around the arch
triumph, continue their way down Il
Avenue du Bots de Boulogne, while
leads to the park of that name.
1t is a thoroughfare that grand
shows to what beauty venue gardenil
can be brought. 1t vas made entire
through private land, half the expens
being borne by the state on conditi
that an iron railing of uniform desiI
was to be constructed along the whs
length of the road; that a strip Of abo
70 feet in breadth be left for the garde
between this railing and the main ros
and, further, that no kind of trade