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■tl '.'OS BTATUAKT IN 0AKDEN8 AND PLEASURE OROITNPS. 



'NN'o liavo made collections of the berries also, us well as of the young trees, anil 

 Lope to interest our horticultural friends in their cultivation. There is no plant tliat 

 would make a more quaintly beautiful and striking hedge than this our native Jlcr. 

 In the open ground it is of remarkably thick growth, and its stilV and well-armed 

 leaves would render it impenetrable even to fowls and smaller animals, and no ox or 

 wild bull even would dare to thrust his muzzle more than once into their prickly 

 thicket ; for, in words from the poet Southey's ode to the Holly tree, 



"Belo\r, a circling fence, its leaves are seen, 

 Wrinkled and keen ; 

 Ko grazing cattle through their piickly round 



Can reach to wound ; 

 But, as they grow where nothing is to fear, 

 Smooth and unarmed the pomtless leaves appear." 



As beautiful and as femous as the English Holly has been for ages, it can not be 

 cultivated in our severer climate and more changeable winters ; but our own Holly, 

 I think, will be found by culture to be not a whit inferior to its more distinguished 

 foreign brother, and to deserve all the enthusiastic encomiums that it has received at 

 the mouths of the poets ; and we may say of our New England Ilex, in the words of 

 Eliza Cook — 



" The Holly ! the Holly ! oh, twine it with Bay — 

 Come, give the Holly a song; 

 For it helps to drive stern winter awaj'', 

 "With his garment so sombre and long. 



" It peeps thro' the trees with its berries of red, 

 And its leaves of burnished green, 

 When the flowers and fruits have long been dead. 

 And not even the Daisj' is seen. 



"Tlien sing to the Holly, the Christmas Holly, 

 Tliat hangs over peasant and king ; 

 "While we laugh and carouse 'neath its glittering bouglis, 

 To the Christmas Holly we'll sing." 



ON THE EMPl!0YMEXT OF STATUARY IN THE DECORATION OF 

 GARDENS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS. 



BY B. MUNN, NEW TOEK. 



There is perhaps no branch of Landscape Gardening in which the correct principles 

 of taste are so frequently violated as in the introduction of statuary into ornamental 

 grounds, and yet there is none in which the rules by which it should be regulated 

 have been better defined. It is not unusual, for instance, to see rustic alcoves and 

 bridges, or summer-houses in the Swiss style, ornamented with statuary in marbl 

 white stone. Nothing can be a greater mistake. However beautiful in themsel 



