French garden

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French Flower Gardens

French gardens have formality, too, but there are long vistas which the Italian style does not call for, though they are not necessarily lacking. For these vistas there are avenues, sometimes with clipped trees; and there are broader stretches of water and more spouting fountains than in the gardens of Italy (see Italian gardens).

A reduction of the garden at Fontainebleau to very moderate proportions would provide an ex- cellent model for a French garden. Here the square pool has four wide approaches and the surrounding flower beds are set in the turf. There is a good garden suggestion, too, in the "Isle of Love" at Chantilly; this for a short vista of flowers and water. Another, for box-lined parterres, will be found in the garden of the Grand Trianon, at Versailles, and still another, for a paved court, in the Orangery at the same place.