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in exquisite order round it, to form a perfect canopy of verdurous 

 coolness "'gainst the hot season;" hut to see such things, even 

 with a view to purchase them, is difficult. Yes, it is so. At the 

 nurseries we may find them all, even to the latest novelties, but it 

 may be that nine-tenths of all the trees we wish to see are to be 

 found only in the shape of puny examples fresh from the hands of 

 the propagator. The nurseryman cannot help it : he must make the 

 most of plants that have cost him large sums of money, and it is his 

 business to cut a costly tree into as many pieces as the leaves upon 

 it, and make of every leaf, with the incipient bud at its base, an 

 article of merchandise, which in years to come shall, under some 

 cultivator's care, display characteristics of beauty, of which at present 

 it does not afford a single foreshadow. 



Well, it cannot be helped. To indicate a defect in the economy 

 of an art, especially if the indication be made, as this is, in the 

 midst of its practitioners, is a great step towards its rectification. 

 We need a national arboretum, but we cannot hope for anything of 

 the sort whilst South Kensington is considered the centre of artistic 

 energies, while it is in reality only the centre of systematic jobbery. 

 To keep away from politics we close up here, and add the promised 

 lists, which comprise none but good things. 



Trees Flowering in Spring (including the best for- garden 

 borders, shrubberies, and front lines). — Snowy Mespilus, Ame- 

 lanchier botryapium, white, 15 feet, very elegant ; Weeping Almond, 

 A. communis pendula, pink, 15 feet, pendulous ; Double-flowering 

 Peach, A. persica flore-pleno, peach, 8 feet ; Double-flowering Cherry, 

 Cerasus domestica flore-pleno, 15 feet, white ; Dwarf Almond, C. 

 japonica multiplex, 5 feet, pink, pretty ; Weeping Cherry, C. pendula, 

 10 feet, white, very elegant ; Judas Tree, Cercis siliquastrum, 10 

 feet, red, distinct and fine ; Double Scarlet Thorn, Crataegus oxycan- 

 tha coccinea plena, 12 feet, red ; Double AVhite Thorn, G. o. multiplex, 

 12 feet, white, very beautiful ; Single Scarlet Thorn, G. o. punicea, 

 15 feet, scarlet, very showy ; Weeping Laburnum, Gytisis laburnum 

 pendula, 8 feet, yellow ; Double- flowering plum, Primus domestica 

 flore-pleno, 8 feet, white ; Double Pink-flowering Plum, P. triloba, 

 8 feet, rosy pink, pretty ; Chinese Crab, Pyrus malus spectabilis, 

 4 feet, rosy pink, lovely ; Kino; Charles's Lilac, Syringa vulgaris 

 Charles X., 12 feet, deep red ; AVhite-flowered Lilac, 8. v. alba, 12 

 feet, white ; Cut-leaved Persian Lilac, S. persica laciniata, 8 feet, 

 reddish lilac. 



Beautiful Lawn Trees (of a distinct and graceful habit, for 

 planting singly in conspicuous positions). — Weeping Birch, Betula 

 alba pendula, 12 feet, weeping tree, D. ; Lvergreen Chesnut, Gastanea 

 chrysophylla, 20 feet, spreading tree, E. ; Judas Tree, Cercis siliquas- 

 trum, 20 feet, spreading tree, D. ; Plum-leaved Thorn, Crataegus 

 crus-galli prunifolia, 15 feet, erect tree, d. ; Cut-leaved Thorn, G. 

 oxycantha laciniata, 12 feet, spreading tree, handsome, D. ; Fern- 

 leaved Beech, Fagus sylvatica asplenifolia, 20 feet, spreading tree, D. ; 

 AVeeping Beech, F. s. pendula, 15 feet, tree, pendent branches, d. ; 

 Weeping Ash, Fraxinus excelsior pendula, 15 feet, tree, pendent 

 branches, n. ; Spiny-leaved Grleditschia, Gleditschia horrida, 15 feet; 



