194 ON STYLE AND EXPRESSION 



all the objects required in extensive gardens. From the mau- 

 soleum to tiie parterre may exist several intermediate characters, 

 each requiring a separate impress, yet merging into each other. 

 For instance, there may be the rosary, the American ground, the 

 decorated promenade, the terrace, I'ock-work, &c. ; and as matters 

 farther from home, wallcs and acljuncts connected with the mar- 

 gins of the park, the lake, the woodlands, the grove. It need 

 scarcely be urged that each of these requires peculiarity of style 

 in the trees and shrubs which are used as accompaniments. 

 There exists, moreover, in addition, a demand for trees and 

 shrubs adapted to the various styles of architecture ; and to the 

 vestibule, the corridor, balustrades, arcades, the conservatory, &c. 



Thus far I have pointed to a few of the chief objects, in order 

 to show the demand for a variety and choice of materials, and 

 to mark the existence of such, and to claim in some degree for 

 the landscape gardener an immunity from the ordinary bondage 

 imposed by the great goddess Fashion : the genuine landscape 

 gardener caring more for lines and forms than gaudy colours. 



Mere novelty and colour, then, being set aside for a moment, 

 I would beg to advert to what we may term style and expression 

 in trees and shrubs, and with much deference submit the following, 

 which is capable of amplification : — 



Fonns : — 



Kound or flat-headed, generally massive. 



Pointed or spiry. 



Columnar. 



Fastigiate. 



Horizontal. 



Weeping. 



To these common terms, as descriptive of general forms, may 

 be added certain other characters or habits ; such as the tinted, 

 or those which impart a solemn grandeur or richness, at tlie sea- 

 son of fading, in our early autumn or winter months. Feathery 

 and light branched trees or shrubs, adapted in a special way to 

 the vista or glade, rock-shrubs and trees, those adapted to the 

 banks of water; climbers, creepers, twiners, berry bearers, and 

 variegations ; witli the coarser and more rustic-looking things, 

 as leading to or connected with the woodlands, the fields, or the 

 moor. 



I will now point to a few trees and shrubs in each of the 

 classes, begging it to be understood that they may be either old 

 or new, their suitability alone being the assumed ground of 

 merit. 



Round or Flat-headed Section. — Foremost, " the gnarled and 

 unwedgable Oak" — everybody's favourite. Here we have one of 



