The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-17
THE PARKS OF PARIS.
A FOREST OF TREES AND FLOWERS IN
PROPULSION.
An Immense Perspective Uneaualed in
Amy other City In tho world-The
Champs Elysees, tho Loveliest Thorough.
fire In Pnris-WouderfulG Gardens.

Any Other City In tho world-The
Champs Elysecs, tho Loveliest Thorourh.
fire In Paris-woudertul Gardens,
There are not less than 126, 900 trees
i'll line within the walls of Paris. with
out including those which are found in
private gardeps, so vast and numerous
III 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 tho town. When it is
time for Paris to take off her winter tot
let and make her appearance in spring
attire, it takes nearly 100000 flower
plants, distributed by hundreds of gar
dcners and their assistants. The total
number of plants often 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
city. In the Bots de Boulogne, near tho
race course of Longchamp, are the nurs-
cry grounds of trees with caducous
leaves. AT Auteuil, on tho road to the
village OF Boulogne, i'll a sandy soil, OK
cellent for their propagation, are placed
collection OF rcsinous trees, plants with
persistent leaves and heath mold plants.
On the banks of the river Marine, at %
village called Petit Buy, the plane trees
that are planted along the boulevards
are cultivated, and finally, out at Vim
ccnnes, near the barrier and Just beyond
fhn fnrfiEnntin,c e
land Is reserved for ornamental plants.
The central establishment is near La
Nluette. out at Passy. 1t 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 divcrstics of plants that
dare not attempt to enumcratc 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 ewes
than that of narrow streets or the SOM
brc courtyard Of tenement house, work
shop and factory.
wish my readers could sec Paris be-
s'NNiA wv i'p''N ~ lltiifsit siiI't lIlt WEST
ern end of the Bots dc Bouognc, Il dis
lance If about five miles, and full of
trees.
They begin with two pretty little gar
den spots i'll II 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 Il short bare SPACE.
badly paved with great blocks Of stono
and called the Place du Caroussel. Be
You'd 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 Il part of the Jardin DIES
Tuileries, which was only opened to the
public i'll 1889, and it covers the ground
where once stood tho palace. Thence,
seen through trees, through marble stat
utes and statuary of many kinds, an inn
mense perspective slowly rises and glori-
ously terminates with the Arc dc Tri-
omphe. Tho 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 III 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 ont here
and there, and where great clumps of
1.l,n 1n1nn1rnny 1Df+
buildings that arc occupied as cafe con-
certs, restaurants, dioramas, circus
and the Palais de l'Industrie.
The Champs Elysecs was thus laid out
in 1860 hut the work were so we'll done
that it looks as if they were always thus
established. This garden park of street
and public garden finishes at the Rond
point, circular open space, where sew
eral streets cross, and where there are
fountains, beds of flowers and rich man
sons. From the Rond point to the Place
de lEtoile, 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 Il grocery, q carriage store
room or drugshop have crept in to mar
the aristocratic bearing of the loveliest
thoroughfare in Paris. On either side Of
the roadway stretches a 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.
1t is 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