the reach of the workman as well as the millionaire. Within a few years, this 

 has become possible, by the discovery of new methods and materials capable of 

 producing works of high art, with beauty unimpaired, and at a price which makes 

 them accessible to all. The introduction of Parian, a comparatively new mate- 

 rial, has given to these manufactures a feeling of art, and a power of expressing 

 it unknown in other materials. Sculpture is rendered by it more faithfully than 

 pictures by engraving. The rich, trans- 

 parent tone, and semi-opaque shadows 

 of marble, preserve all their softness in 

 Parian. 



The first group above is a collection 

 of pillars, vases, and seats, for the garden, 

 and here is a hanging basket in terra 

 cotta, intended for the parlor cultivation 

 of orchidaceous or trailing plants, now 

 happily becoming an enlightened pastime 

 with the ladies. A cultivated taste for 

 flowers ranks with connaissance in the 

 Fine Arts, as indicating intelligence and 

 refinement. It is a pity that any one 

 should wait for expensive greenhouses, to 

 gratify that taste. A few vases and 

 hanging baskets are all that is requisite to realize as much pleasure as can be 

 gained from the princely gardens of Chatsworth. 



LOMBARDY POPLARS, &c. 



BY P. Q. BERTHOLET, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNA. 



Dear Editor : L. F. A. has contributed an article on "Lombardy Poplars," 

 to your excellent journal. He seems to hold it in very high estimation for orna- 

 mental purposes, calling it a " universal tree," and after presenting it as an en- 

 tirely faultless tree, even not suckering, &c., finally urges us to " give renewed 

 life to this long-neglected Lombardy Poplar." 



" Not suckering !" it may behave so well about Black Rock, but certainly, in 

 this locality, I could point out places where it has spread over acres by no other 

 process, and so densely, presenting an appearance not unlike the impenetrable 

 cane-brake ; the ground being overgrown with its roots, to the exclusion of 

 everything else, all sending up shoots from every available point. Would that be 

 desirable for the ploughman ? Who would like such an acquisition for our gardens 

 and lawns ? 



It is a tree that, with us, has had its day for planting — but, unfortunately, it 

 takes care of itself. It has become inextcrminable, and acts the part of a weed 

 rather than an ornament (unless you make no distinctions as to conduct) ; yet we 

 prefer a proper name by which to know all things, and arrange accordingly — for 

 everything should have its place, and nowhere is this more essential than in land- 

 scape gardening to be carried out with good taste. 



We have all the requisite materials in our own S3'lva, for (all) ornamental pur- 

 poses ; these are, unfortunately, the too much neylectcd. There is entirely too 

 much desire — a morbid taste — for foreign acquisitions in planting, by which 

 natives and oft far superior materials are left uncultivated and neglected 



