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PLEA S URE EXC URSI ONiS.
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The environs of New Orleans afford many agreeable retreats, a visit to any one of which will repay the pleasure seeker.
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The trip to Carrollton is deservedly one of the most popular excursions in the neighborhood of our city. The green cars from the corner of Canal aud Baronne streets, only a short distance from the principal hotels and boarding houses, take
Carrollton Hotel.
passengers through one of the pleasantest avenues, lined by palatial residences and smiling gardens to that suburban district of New Orleans. Here are situated the Carrollton Gardens, which for many years have been a favorite resort with our people, and a place much admired by strangers. The spacious walks are lined with the choicest flowers, whose bloom and fragrance are especially attractive to those who come from the North, where snow and ice greet the eye on every band.
No visitor to our city should fail to go to the