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of the abele or white poplar, and of the great black Italian poplar,— 
which grew with great rapidity and resisted the wind, but had the 
disadvantage cf not putting forth its leaves till very late,—would 
chequer advantageously the masses of elm. 
With due attention to situation and soil, nearly all the trees 
mentioned would grow fairly and much improve the general ap- 
pearance of our streets and public places. ' 
In the matter of grouping there was great room for improvement. 
In shrubs there was room for most extensive improvement. A 
shrubbery should consist of a mass of beautiful shrubs, clothed with 
branches down to the ground, and presenting great variety of foliage 
and flowers—most effectively so when the same kinds were massed 
together, the taller shrubs being in the background, and the smaller 
ones in front. Many shrubs were apt, especially in a town, to run up 
‘¢spindly ”; the lower branches dying off in an unsightly manner. 
When this happened they should be cut down to the ground. The 
arbutus and rhododendrons might, in this manner, be very advan- 
tageously treated. 
Happily, in Brighton, there was no limit in the choice of shrubs 
as in that of trees. But here a great reform was wanted, not only in 
grouping and treatment, but in the introduction of the many species of 
late years ascertained to bear our climate. Among deciduous shrubs, 
the lilac, guelder rose, and flowering ribes flourished ; the syringa (mock 
orange), the deutzia scabra, some of the spirceas, the forsythia viridis- 
sima, the buddlcea ylobosa, the viburnum plicatum, and, above all, the 
very beautiful weigelia rosea and its several varieties, should be added. 
Among evergreens none did better than the euonymus and the aucuba ; 
but the hardy gold-striped variety of the former, one of the most 
beautiful shrubs that could be seen, and several other varieties much 
more beautiful than the one most commonly seen in Brighton and quite 
as hardy, should be freely planted ; as also some of the new unblotched 
varieties of the aucuba, and some of the recently introduced males, so 
that the aucubas in our shrubberies might some day be covered with 
the great red coral-like berries that rendered these plants such choice 
ornaments of the conservatory, Some of the berberis, especially the 
exquisite B. Darwinii, should be tried; and there could be little 
question that the attractive Chinese privet, almost an evergreen and 
flowering so profusely in autumn, and the equally beautiful Japan 
