PLANTING AND AERANGEMENT OP TREES AND SHRUBS. 



And witli tlie following evergreen trees and shrubs — Ilemlock, tlie finest of native 

 Evergi-eens and the best for grouping ; Norway Spruce, equal to the Hemlock, but as 

 it grows large must be used sparingly, and looks best standing by itself on the lawn ; 

 Black or Double Spruce; Arbor Vitje; Red Cedar; Virginia Red Cedar; Sweedish 

 Juniper ; American Ilolly ; Common Laurel ; American Rhododendron [^Rhododen- 

 dron maximum) ; and Mahonia or Ilolly-leaved Berberry, grouped on the lawn, and 

 bordering the entrance road and walks, a small place may be made very attractive, 

 and, as you remark, page 62, a better effect produced than by the use of a few larwe 

 trees like the Elm. 



I would add to the above, two deciduous trees, the European Larch and the 

 Virginia Cypress, -which, in summer, have the appearance of evergreens. 



HARDY TREES AND SHRUBS— PLANTING AND ARRANGEMENT. 



BY "WM. W. VALK, M. P., FLUSHING. 



As in the animal kingdom man holds the fi'rst rank in regard to external circumstances, 

 so do trees and shrubs hold precisely the same rank in the kingdom of vegetable 

 nature. In their structure they are alike superior, in their form more symmetrica], 

 and in their duration far less evanescent. To their nourishment, also, their more 

 volatile allies contribute by their death, since they feed and nourish upon (as it were) 

 the gases generated from their remains. 



It need not, and does not, then, surprise us, that their skilful and judicious cultiva- 

 tion has come to be regarded as the noblest occupation of the horticulturist ; or that 

 a fine specimen of a rare exotic species should be looked upon with the proudest and 

 most pleasurable emotions. In the human mind there is a natural impressibility with 

 the grand and beautiful ; and, as has been truly said — 



" Tlian a tree, a grander cliikl earth bears not." 



But the appearance of these monarchs of vegetation is most powerfully afi'ected by 

 locality and difference of treatment ; and our present object is to institute a compari- 

 son between the method of growing them in what are termed arboretums, and that 

 of planting them singly or in gi-oups, without any regard to botanical order or affinity, 

 in conspicuous parts of the pleasure ground's of suburban and country residences. 

 There is undoubtedly merit attached to each of these systems ; therefore it is proper 

 we should examine the claims of each, and endeavor to show which is the most orna- 

 mental and appropriate. 



What is an arboretum ? — Considered vaguely it is simply a collection of indigenous 

 and exotic trees, disposed according to the proprietor's taste, and congregated upon a 

 small superficies of ground, or scattered over an estate of twenty or thirty acres. 

 This acceptation of the terai is not, however, the general one. In all modern arbore- 

 tums, every genus or tribe of plants is grouped together more or less densely, and 



