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JOUKNAL OF KUPtAL ART AND RURAL TASTE. 



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WOVEMBER is, above all others, the tree-planting month over the wide Union. 

 ''^* Accordingly, every one who has a rood of land, looks about him at this season, to 

 see what can be done to improve and embellish it. Some have bought new places, 

 where they have to build and create everything in the way of home scenery, and they, 

 of course, will have their heads full of shade trees and fruit trees, ornamental shrubs 

 and evergreens, lawns and walks, and will tax their imagination to the utmost to see 

 in the future all the varied beauty which they mean to work out of the present blank 

 fields that they have taken in hand. These, look for the most rapid-growing and ef- 

 fective materials, with which to hide their nakedness, and spread something of the 

 drapery of beauty over their premises, in the shortest possible time. Others, have 

 already a goodly stock of foliage and shade, but the trees have been planted without 

 taste, and by thinning out somewhat here, making an opening there, and planting a 

 little yonder, they hope to break up the stiff boundaries, and thus magically to con- 

 vert awkward angles into graceful curves, and harmonious outlines. Whilst others 

 others, again, whose gardens and pleasure-grounds have long had their earnest devo- 

 tion, are busy turning over the catalogues of the nurseries, in search of rare and curi- 

 ous trees and shrubs, to add still more of novelty and interest to their favorite lawn 

 and walks. As the pleasure of creation may be supposed to be the highest pleasure, 

 and as the creation of scenery in landscape gardening is the nearest approach to the 

 matter that we can realise in a practical way, it is not difficult to see that November, 

 dreary as it may seem to the cockneys who have rushed back to gas-lights and the 

 paved streets of the city, is full of interest, and even excitement, to the real lover of 

 the country. 



It is, however, one of the characteristics of the human mind to overlook that which 

 is immediately about us, however admirable, and to attach the greatest importance to 



Nov, 1, 1851. 



No. XI. 



