though the individuals are large, they were all planted in the spring of 1828. The building, to the left of the picture, is over the well and its machinery; the windmill, on the right, is beyond the boundary of the garden. This property was purchased, the house built, and the grounds laid out, entirely as a mercantile speculation, by a Parisian attorney.

The Garden of Bel Respiro (fig. 39.), like other town gardens, is surrounded by buildings. The surface is flat, and of no great extent; but the grounds have been laid out, from the proprietor's designs, with very great care, and at a very great expense. In the centre of the lawn, on the entrance front, is a bronze figure. (fig. 38.)

There are numerous small Town Gardens in Paris, and many houses have gardens of pots on their roofs. In a work entitled Le Jardinier des Fenêtres, the author directs how a considerable collection of plants may be grown on the roofs of

houses. Not only botany, he says, but many of the operations of gardening, such as planting, sowing, grafting, striking by cuttings, pruning, training, &c., may be thus taught, so as to give persons who pass their youth in towns, in acquiring an independency, such a knowledge of country matters as may lead them to retire there, when the objects of their industry have been obtained. There are also town gardens. entirely of an architectural character. One of the handsomest of these which we happened to see was that of a young architect, who unfortunately spent his whole fortune in creating it. The garden was in a dilapidated state; but the house (fig. 40.) was in tolerable repair.

One of the most beautiful Villas in the Neighbourhood of Paris, as far as regards general scenery, and views beyond the boundary, is the park of M. Ternaux, at St. Õuen. (fig. 41.) The proprietor is well known as a manufacturer, an agriculturist, and an enlightened and philanthropic man. He is highly esteemed by us, not only as a man of taste, but

as one of the warmest advocates for universal education in France. His park is not large, and contains little variety of surface; but it is situated on the high bank of the Seine, where that river makes one of its most beautiful bends; and this, with the great extent of varied scenery beyond, is seen to admirable advantage from M. Ternaux's house and grounds. The chief merit of the place consists in the adaptation of the scenery within the boundary, to the most beautiful parts of that which lies beyond it; and more especially to the finest parts of the river. For the latter purpose, M. Ternaux has formed two pieces of water (16 and 17), which harmonise with the river, in a manner so striking, as to make it difficult to convey by description a clear idea of the effect produced. This striking and harmonious effect was the more difficult to obtain, from the river being there upwards of fifty feet below the surface of the garden. M. Ternaux, however, fixed on a glimpse of the river caught in the distance, and by the two ponds before mentioned (16 and 17), between which and the distant water the eye does not meet with the slightest interruption, not even grass or gravel, the distant reach is in effect brought home to the drawingroom windows. To understand how this is done, it is necessary to know that the pond nearest the eye (17) is full to the brim, and from the house (2) carries on the eye to the farther pond (16), which, being higher than all the trees between it and the boundary, and at the same time brimful, connects it in perspective with the distant reach of the river. The merit of this arrangement belongs entirely to M. Ternaux, who had no professional assistance whatever. The following are the details of the plan : —

1, Manufactory, storehouses, workshops, stables, and other offices and lodgings for the overseers.

2, Mansion. 3, Kitchen-garden.

4, Orangery.

6, Place for the cheval de bois (roundabout).

5, Stove.

7, 7, Platforms of turf, surrounded by lime trees, clipped architecturally, forming airy shady walks.

8, Place for the balançoire (swing). 9, Bergerie (sheep-houses). M. Ternaux has a large flock of merinos, which are housed here every night throughout the year; and every day, when the ground is not covered with snow, or the rain is not excessive, they are taken out, to feed upon, and walk over, an extensive tract of common field land, so as to imitate the treatment they receive in Spain. There is also a flock of Cachemire goats lodged with the sheep, and treated like them. M. Ternaux manufactured the finest cloth from the wool of the sheep, and Cachemire shawls from the hair of the goats. The flock of goats and the shawl manufactory have, we believe, subsequently been given up.

10, Sheep-house, with dovecot over.

11, Moss-house. 12, Rustic temple. 13, Rock, with an archway and walk underneath. 14, Chinese temple.

15, Parterres.

16 and 17, Ponds connected by a rivulet.

18, Bridge.