...rose-bush, than for the rarest plant from New Holland or the Cape of Good Hope ; and as to the poor artisan of the French capital, he only thinks of vegetable...cannot compare with London for extent or wealth." The public squares of the metropolu astonished and delighted him, and still more so the public nurseries,...

...by which the people arc in a measure deprived of that most universal of all Nature's gifts -light f pay a greater price for a lovely rose-bush, than for...London, though it is much smaller and more poorly slocked ; as the French capital itself cannot compare with London for extent or wealth. If the French...