will rapidly attain importance. Evergreens should be at once set out, as a year's 



delay is a year lost ; the Austrian Pine, and the Pinaster, arc among the most 

 rapid growers, while the Cembran pine is extremely slow. Such information is 

 obtainable from books, and no young planter should neglect their study. 



It is a favorite plan with us, to intermingle the «///e with the (hdce in ])lanting 

 a new place. We can see no reason why many of our shade trees should be 

 neglected because they also produce fruit. There is scarcely a more ornamental 

 tree than the Spanish chestnut, and it yields a very profitable crop of excellent 

 nuts; why not plant this instead of the commonest maples ? A few fine cherry- 

 trees of the most select kinds, serve the purposes of shade nearly as well as the 

 most fashionable foreign deciduous trees, and they are an annual source of grati- 

 fication, not only to the old and young, but they bring round the house the favor- 

 ite robbin, and other singing birds. Reflect, while the latter enjoy themselves, 

 that you planted the cherry to share its fruits with your friends. The Shell-bark 

 hickory is one of the most beautiful American trees we possess ; procure the true 

 kind, and give a little space to what will long delight your successors. The 

 Walnut is an extremely productive tree, and its timber is worth more than most 

 others. The English walnut, or Madeira-nut, is also ornamental and useful. The 

 I'each, the Apricot, and the Crab-Apple, interspersed in your grounds in suitable 

 situations, are as picturesque as shrubbery, and, like the Filbert, yield valuable 

 products ; another argument for the use of these, is to be found in the fact, that 

 when they are placed within sight of the mansion, they are more under the eye of 

 the resident, and, consequently are less liable to depredations. 



No country in the world is expending, on new rural improvements, more money 

 than our own ; it is of great importance that it should be laid out judiciously. 

 Whatever may be the natural taste of the beginner who is capable of enjoying 

 the happy efforts of others, he should be impressed with the fact, that many 

 tasteful persons fail when they employ their energies in a new field of operations, 

 precisely as they might do if they attempted a musical instrument without a mas- 

 ter ; they should consult some one whose business it is to lay out their grounds, 

 whose experience has been exhibited by some example, and who can give correct 

 information in such important points as what trees attain a great or a rapid height, 

 and which must be waited for in patience. Accomplished individuals, in this 

 department, are extremely rare ; landscape gardening is a fine art, and, in all the 

 fine arts, great masters are the exceptions. 



One of the worst errors committed by citizens, when removing to " the country," 

 is their congregating too near together in villages where the land is dear, the "lots" 

 small and shallow, and where, as a taste for rural art increases, there is no space 

 to expand. The citizen, accustomed to his small plot of 20 by 100 feet in town, 

 conceives that 100 by 200 is a magnificent allowance. Many purchase even much 

 less, and their country experiences end in disappointment ; whereas, if they had 

 gone but a little further from village streets, they would have possessed, at the 

 same cost, ground for a good orchard and a cow pasture. Our own neighborhood 



